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Fire in the hole!

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Fire in the hole!

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Fire in the hole!

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[explosion] All clear!

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[music - "dark as a dungeon"]

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Come all ye young fellers
so brave and so fine

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Seek not your fortune
way down in the mine.

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It'll form like a habit
and will sink in your soul

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till the streams of your blood
runs as black as the coal.

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Where it's dark
as a dungeon damp

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as the dew, where
the danger is double

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and the pleasures are few.

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Where the rain
never falls, the sun

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never shines, it's dark as a
dungeon way down in the mines.

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[tools clanking]

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[water hissing]

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[machinery noise]

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[man yelling]

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[machinery noise]

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[wheels turning]

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[engine running, metal clanking]

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[inaudible]?

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Yeah, smile for it.

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A lot of them girls got
them [inaudible] clothes on.

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Whoo!

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[man singing]

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For forty-two years is a
mighty long time I labored

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untold down in a coal mine.

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Down in a deep hole where
the bright lights did glow,

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back in a dark room
a-spadin' up coal.

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My bones they did
ache me my knee caps

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got bad down on a hard
rock on a set of knee pads.

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[child yelling in background]

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[man singing] The motors were
shifting I got sand in my hair.

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Both lungs were broke down
from a-breathin' bad air.

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[speaking] Coal
mining was rough.

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18 and 20 hours, get
wet, come outside,

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your clothes would
be close to stiff.

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It would sound
like a [inaudible]

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hit 'em, like a rattle noise.

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They worked you like working
a mule or a [inaudible]..

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I heard the boss man to say
one time, he said you be sure.

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Don't get that
mule no place where

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the rock will fall in on him.

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Don't take that mule
to no bad place.

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I said, well, what about me?

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I was driving the mule in.

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What about me, the
rock a-fallin' on me?

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He said, we can always
hire another man.

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He said, you gotta
buy that mule.

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In other words, they
thought more of the mule

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than they did a man.

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[violin music playing]

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My grandfather
was a coal miner

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and belonged to
the union, the UMW.

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And he died with the black lung.

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I can remember sitting
around, you know--

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[KIDS PLAYING, YELLING IN
BACKGROUND]

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--when we were younger,
and him talking about being

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on picket lines and organizing.

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And I mean, that was mostly what
we talked about, sitting around

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the table after supper and all.

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Most of our conversation
was his union--

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when he was organizing
for the union and things

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that happened on the
picket line, and things

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that the company did to you.

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And so I began to hate
the company, you know?

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I mean, it seemed like
I just always did.

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I knew they were
enemy, you know?

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And then, when I watched him
die, and suffer like he did

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with that black lung disease,
I knew that something

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could be done about it.

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And I told myself then, if I
ever get the opportunity to get

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those coal operators, I will.

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Because I thought, you
know, it was the enemy.

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And so when this track came
up, I saw the opportunity

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and I jumped right in there.

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Let's get up there at
five o'clock in the morning.

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Fix you a good cup of coffee.

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Let's be there and
show these Brookside

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workers what we can do for 'em.

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Let's stand on our two feet
and show these boys that we

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can help them get a contract.

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Let's show the people of Harlan
County we stand together.

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If you file for this contract,
we're going to get it.

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Hey, the fire's on hot now,
it ain't much they can do.

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All you boys on that
football field where I am,

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I want you to be
there in the morning.

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Let's show Carl Horn
that we stand on two feet

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here in Harlan County.

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We'll set there and
sweat when it's snowing.

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We'll stand right there
until that UMWA contract

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gets signed at Brookside.

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All you people here
in Black Mountain,

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we'd really
appreciate it if you'd

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be down there at
five o'clock, sunrise

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revival at Brookside, Kentucky.

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Let's don't back off.

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Let's don't let one man
run us out of Harlan.

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Yeah, boys, that's
where it's happening--

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Brookside at five
o'clock Monday morning.

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Let's be down there to
support the Brookside workers.

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I got hurt down there about
a year ago at Brookside.

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I had about 300 pounds
of steel on my head.

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And they took me to the
hospital, sewed my head up,

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and a hole cut
through my nose here.

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And I was off one day.

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And the superintendent
sent a feller over said,

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you need to come on
back up here and work

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so we'll make it easy on you
so you won't lose no time.

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[side conversation]

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And I went back up.

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Finding it knocked me out
of compensation or anything.

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[inaudible] busted--
my head busted open.

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[birds screeching in background]

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That's the way they--
that's the way they

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want you to work down there.

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Protect your family.

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UMWA.

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[traffic noise]

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[interposing voices]

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Go on down, boys.

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We need your support.

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Take some of that
money and [inaudible]..

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Now you're a real pal.

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Need your support, buddy.

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May the good lord
take a liking to you.

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[laughter]

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Yeah!

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UMWA all the way.

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UMWA all the way.

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Here, give me one.

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I'll put it on the side--

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Right on the bumper there.

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Tennessee is a UMW [inaudible].

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We're out of these
Kentucky stickers

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or we'd give you one of them.

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Organize the unorganized.

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With organization, you have
the aid of your fellow man.

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Without organization,
you are a lone individual

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without influence and without
recognition of any kind.

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And exploitation of
you and your family

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when it pleases some
industrialist who desires

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to make money from your misery.

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But we'd like to have
every man to walk this picket

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duty with us, to get his
name before he leaves,

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and we'll break it up.

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These boys on this committee
will break it down.

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And we'll get
something going here.

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Come on up and sit around.

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It ain't no big thing.

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You ain't gonna be
doing nothin' no way.

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Crying about how broke
you are, like I am.

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[car engine running]

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[inaudible].

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We sure appreciate that.

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[inaudible] a sticker.

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We're protesting.

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We're protesting Duke Power's
control over these men

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that voted in the UMW contract.

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And Duke Power says no, you
can't have that contract.

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We have made them
dozens and dozens

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of proposals of
different language

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in these areas of disagreement.

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They read them and
throw them back.

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And they have no
counterproposal.

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If you could
settle it quietly,

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I would think maybe to do it.

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And say, well, maybe
they won this battle,

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but we've got them off our back.

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Well, I would agree
with you to this extent--

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I'd like to have
them off our back.

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They're treating us
like we're animals, dogs.

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Well, we aren't.

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We're American citizens.

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And they are violating
our constitutional rights

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when they tell us that we can't
have the union of our choice

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that those men voted in.

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If you looked on
TV the other day,

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you seen women going up
there, men, impeach Nixon.

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Impeach Nixon.

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But you let us get
up there with protest

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signs against Duke Power.

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And they're sending their
gun thugs to intimidate us.

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What do you think
when unions are

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destroying our whole country?

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[bell rings]

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[side conversations]

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Mr. Hoffa's in a penitentiary.

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Thinks the union is
known communists.

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The longshoremen are
known communists.

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Every union in the country
is [inaudible] what

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will happen to their country.

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The men wants higher wages.

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They're going to strike for
the union is begging 'em.

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They stay on strike till
they get their higher wages.

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I explained to my daughter, I
said there's a spool of thread

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there.

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I said that thread
might have been $0.15.

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The men goes on strike.

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I said, then if they get--

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if they get $0.30 on there,
they get their $0.30.

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When they go back to
work, they got to raise

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that price to cover that wage.

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The unions is what's doing it.

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The unions is what's
running the United States.

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[men talking in background]

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I went to work when I
was 10 years old picking

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slate in the coal [inaudible].

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Well, at that time, we were
working 10 hours a day.

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And we were getting six and
a fraction cents an hour.

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Well, we breaker boys, we'd
have our feet in the chute.

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And we'd be picking
the slate out,

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when the breaker boss
would sneak up behind us,

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and if he'd see a piece
of slate coming through,

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he'd pick up the slate and
hit you in the back with it,

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and hit you hard.

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He'd say, pick that slate up!

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You know?

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Well, they used to
abuse us, actually.

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Well, finally, we got to a stage
where we figured that, well, we

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was gonna strike.

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That was when I learned my
first real political lesson

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about what happens when
you take a position

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against the coal operators,
against the capitalists.

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Well, the first thing that
happened, the union officials

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came to us and told us we'd
have to go back to work,

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that we were violating
the agreement.

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We said, the hell
with the agreement.

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We're going to
stay out on strike

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until we get our demands.

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Well, then the politicians
began visiting us

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and putting pressure on
us, then the parish priest.

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Well, finally, the coal company
did agree to meet with us.

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And they agreed to
raise the hourly pay

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from six and a fraction
cents to $0.08 an hour.

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So we thought we
got big concessions.

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Today that wouldn't
mean anything.

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That's only peanuts.

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But it meant a whole lot to us
in our paycheck at that period.

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Well, this was my first
lesson that if you

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stuck to your organization and
stuck together in solidarity,

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you could defeat them.

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Besides that, I learned
that the politicians

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worked with the coal companies.

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I found out that the union
officials were working

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with the coal companies.

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I also found out that the
Catholic hierarchy was working

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with the coal officials.

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Here was a combination
of the whole thing, see--

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that you had to bump up against
the whole combination of them.

254
00:14:18,002 --> 00:14:19,012
When the coal and
iron police would

255
00:14:19,014 --> 00:14:22,021
find out who was trying
to instigate a union,

256
00:14:22,023 --> 00:14:25,006
well, they'd abuse them.

257
00:14:25,008 --> 00:14:28,011
The miners figured, well, the
only way they could fight back

258
00:14:28,013 --> 00:14:31,014
was to abuse them, pay them
for what they was doing.

259
00:14:31,016 --> 00:14:36,006
So they began to use, then,
violence in retaliation

260
00:14:36,008 --> 00:14:40,012
of the violence that was
being used against them.

261
00:14:40,014 --> 00:14:43,008
This kind of a struggle
went on to such a degree

262
00:14:43,010 --> 00:14:46,008
that there was many of the
mine foremen getting killed.

263
00:14:46,010 --> 00:14:48,017
There were many of the police
getting killed, of course.

264
00:14:48,019 --> 00:14:50,010
There was many miners
getting killed.

265
00:14:50,012 --> 00:14:52,012
And it was a regular
guerrilla warfare.

266
00:14:52,014 --> 00:14:56,005
I saw some of the earlier
ideas of guerrilla warfare

267
00:14:56,007 --> 00:14:58,003
that developed out of
that kind of struggle.

268
00:14:58,005 --> 00:15:01,005
[marching footsteps]

269
00:15:01,007 --> 00:15:04,015
The coal company gets
every dollar which he can

270
00:15:04,017 --> 00:15:06,020
chisel out of some
coal miner through

271
00:15:06,022 --> 00:15:08,007
[inaudible] management tactics.

272
00:15:08,009 --> 00:15:11,020
So why wouldn't the coal
operators be satisfied?

273
00:15:11,022 --> 00:15:14,015
The government is acting
as their muscle man.

274
00:15:17,014 --> 00:15:18,017
[inaudible].

275
00:15:18,019 --> 00:15:19,020
That's the money of
Kentucky at work.

276
00:15:19,022 --> 00:15:22,021
Breaking the organized labor.

277
00:15:22,023 --> 00:15:26,002
Organize labor.

278
00:15:26,004 --> 00:15:28,019
Organize labor.

279
00:15:28,021 --> 00:15:32,022
Well, hell, I don't think
they're in here for anything

280
00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:34,021
except break the strike here.

281
00:15:34,023 --> 00:15:36,015
They are for the
company all the way.

282
00:15:36,017 --> 00:15:38,001
Scabs wouldn't
be alive for it.

283
00:15:38,003 --> 00:15:42,006
[crowd chatter]

284
00:15:42,008 --> 00:15:44,007
I don't have any feelings
one way or the other.

285
00:15:44,009 --> 00:15:46,016
I just have a job to do.

286
00:15:46,018 --> 00:15:48,006
Then why are you here?

287
00:15:48,008 --> 00:15:50,013
To keep the roads open.

288
00:15:50,015 --> 00:15:52,007
Enforce laws and keep the peace.

289
00:15:52,009 --> 00:15:54,011
Try to keep people
from getting hurt.

290
00:15:57,003 --> 00:15:59,009
Put your hands [inaudible].

291
00:15:59,011 --> 00:16:00,009
Bailey?

292
00:16:00,011 --> 00:16:01,021
I'm your [inaudible], Bailey.

293
00:16:01,023 --> 00:16:03,010
Because you're a damn
disgrace to the Bailey family.

294
00:16:03,012 --> 00:16:05,004
[laughter]

295
00:16:05,006 --> 00:16:08,003
Boy, this is a damn shame
a Bailey on a state cop.

296
00:16:08,005 --> 00:16:09,007
Ain't that a shame?

297
00:16:09,009 --> 00:16:10,015
You want to get a
shot of something,

298
00:16:10,017 --> 00:16:12,005
get a shot of this
baby hanging over--

299
00:16:12,007 --> 00:16:13,015
[laughter]

300
00:16:13,017 --> 00:16:17,013
That's what I been looking at.

301
00:16:17,015 --> 00:16:21,004
It's the same
diameter [inaudible]..

302
00:16:21,006 --> 00:16:23,013
That's a scab?

303
00:16:23,015 --> 00:16:25,013
There are no healing
for a scab, you know?

304
00:16:25,015 --> 00:16:27,011
Hell, that's some
nerve, don't it?

305
00:16:27,013 --> 00:16:28,023
Put some nerve on there.

306
00:16:29,001 --> 00:16:32,023
[crowd erupts]

307
00:16:36,023 --> 00:16:39,009
[engine revving]

308
00:16:51,006 --> 00:16:52,017
There's the damn
guy that drawed

309
00:16:52,019 --> 00:16:54,017
that gun on me right there!

310
00:16:54,019 --> 00:16:57,005
That guy used [inaudible].

311
00:17:02,006 --> 00:17:03,005
[bang]

312
00:17:03,007 --> 00:17:08,000
[sirens]

313
00:17:08,002 --> 00:17:11,011
Get 'em out of here.

314
00:17:11,013 --> 00:17:12,008
Hey!

315
00:17:12,010 --> 00:17:13,018
That's goddamn wrong!

316
00:17:13,020 --> 00:17:16,014
--goddamn law enforcement.

317
00:17:16,016 --> 00:17:18,013
Hey!

318
00:17:18,015 --> 00:17:20,001
[inaudible].

319
00:17:20,003 --> 00:17:30,014
[interposing voices]

320
00:17:34,013 --> 00:17:36,011
Go on, sucky.

321
00:17:36,013 --> 00:17:38,010
Hey, go on.

322
00:17:38,012 --> 00:17:41,008
[inaudible]

323
00:17:41,010 --> 00:17:42,012
Goddamned bastards.

324
00:17:42,014 --> 00:17:44,013
That goddamn scab
son of a bitches.

325
00:17:44,015 --> 00:17:46,017
Hey!

326
00:17:51,004 --> 00:17:54,004
All you guys on this
injunction, all 36 of you,

327
00:17:54,006 --> 00:17:55,008
remember this.

328
00:17:55,010 --> 00:17:56,019
This is a court order.

329
00:17:56,021 --> 00:18:00,003
You can't block the traffic,
and don't call them scabs.

330
00:18:00,005 --> 00:18:01,013
Why not?

331
00:18:01,015 --> 00:18:03,021
Because if you do, you'll
be down there behind bars.

332
00:18:03,023 --> 00:18:08,001
Now, I don't think you'll
never win a strike by having

333
00:18:08,003 --> 00:18:11,010
six people on the picket line.

334
00:18:11,012 --> 00:18:13,016
There's no way, I
mean, that you can

335
00:18:13,018 --> 00:18:15,004
win a strike with six pickets.

336
00:18:15,006 --> 00:18:18,002
So you got to violate
these injunctions.

337
00:18:18,004 --> 00:18:19,022
And the lawyers are
made to get you out

338
00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:21,008
of trouble after you get in.

339
00:18:21,010 --> 00:18:25,017
Not to get you out of
trouble before you get in.

340
00:18:25,019 --> 00:18:27,004
I'll put it like this.

341
00:18:27,006 --> 00:18:29,006
You do what you want to do.

342
00:18:29,008 --> 00:18:32,005
Women all over the country
are interested in what

343
00:18:32,007 --> 00:18:33,010
their husbands are doing.

344
00:18:33,012 --> 00:18:35,000
They're interested
in the safety laws

345
00:18:35,002 --> 00:18:37,007
that the United
Mine Workers have.

346
00:18:37,009 --> 00:18:39,020
And they want their husbands
to have the pension funds.

347
00:18:39,022 --> 00:18:42,022
They don't want their husbands
going into these scab mines,

348
00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:44,022
with the rock a-falling
and running these here

349
00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:46,014
motors with no brakes.

350
00:18:46,016 --> 00:18:48,016
So they want to participate.

351
00:18:48,018 --> 00:18:50,006
They're ready and willing.

352
00:18:50,008 --> 00:18:53,005
The good thing about our club
is that now we're giving them

353
00:18:53,007 --> 00:18:56,016
the chance to participate, to
say when their husbands go down

354
00:18:56,018 --> 00:18:59,019
in the mine that they're
praying that they'll get out.

355
00:18:59,021 --> 00:19:02,022
I think that they feel like
that maybe their prayers

356
00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:04,022
will be answered
sooner if they are

357
00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:06,021
working under a UMWA contract.

358
00:19:06,023 --> 00:19:10,009
Well, I went down there
in support of the miners,

359
00:19:10,011 --> 00:19:14,005
for the miners, and in
support of my own children,

360
00:19:14,007 --> 00:19:16,018
too, that I'm raising up.

361
00:19:16,020 --> 00:19:18,013
Now sit down real easy.

362
00:19:18,015 --> 00:19:19,013
Sit down.

363
00:19:19,015 --> 00:19:21,011
[inaudible]

364
00:19:21,013 --> 00:19:23,023
I can't get my foot in.

365
00:19:24,001 --> 00:19:24,021
Angie.

366
00:19:24,023 --> 00:19:26,003
I couldn't get my foot out--

367
00:19:26,005 --> 00:19:27,018
You're messing.

368
00:19:27,020 --> 00:19:30,003
[inaudible] again.

369
00:19:30,005 --> 00:19:32,019
If the scalps starts to
cross the picket lines,

370
00:19:32,021 --> 00:19:35,009
we went because we was trying to
protect-- you know, the scalps

371
00:19:35,011 --> 00:19:37,017
going to take your daddy's job.

372
00:19:37,019 --> 00:19:39,006
When they sign the
contract, Daddy's

373
00:19:39,008 --> 00:19:43,020
going to have hot running
water and a big old bathtub.

374
00:19:43,022 --> 00:19:46,019
[traffic noise]

375
00:19:48,018 --> 00:19:50,023
Let's help the
striking miners now.

376
00:19:51,001 --> 00:19:52,000
[woman singing]

377
00:19:52,002 --> 00:19:57,013
Come all you coal
miners wherever

378
00:19:57,015 --> 00:20:05,018
you may be and listen to a
story that I'll relate to thee.

379
00:20:05,020 --> 00:20:11,009
My name is nothing extree but
the truth to you I'll tell.

380
00:20:14,001 --> 00:20:16,016
I am a coal miner's wife.

381
00:20:16,018 --> 00:20:19,007
I'm sure I wish you well.

382
00:20:19,009 --> 00:20:22,017
They take your very life blood.

383
00:20:22,019 --> 00:20:25,009
They take our children's lives.

384
00:20:25,011 --> 00:20:32,001
Take fathers away from children
and husbands away from wives.

385
00:20:32,003 --> 00:20:36,000
Oh, miner, won't you
organize wherever

386
00:20:36,002 --> 00:20:42,009
you may be and make
this the land of freedom

387
00:20:42,011 --> 00:20:46,020
for workers like you and me.

388
00:20:46,022 --> 00:20:49,007
And we had to
fight for our rights.

389
00:20:49,009 --> 00:20:51,007
You're going to have
to fight for that--

390
00:20:51,009 --> 00:20:53,019
if you have more
safety in the mines,

391
00:20:53,021 --> 00:20:56,002
if you get your
portal to portal pay,

392
00:20:56,004 --> 00:20:59,019
if you have your doctor
card so you can be doctored.

393
00:20:59,021 --> 00:21:04,010
Because if you get disabled,
and you don't have any backing,

394
00:21:04,012 --> 00:21:10,005
then some home will get you
or your family will starve.

395
00:21:10,007 --> 00:21:12,010
For you see, I
know what it means.

396
00:21:12,012 --> 00:21:16,009
And this club means a lot
to pull us all together.

397
00:21:16,011 --> 00:21:19,002
Everybody stand together in it.

398
00:21:19,004 --> 00:21:21,006
And everybody goes together.

399
00:21:21,008 --> 00:21:23,009
Everybody go out
on the picket line.

400
00:21:23,011 --> 00:21:27,005
And we'll win their contract
if they'll all stand up.

401
00:21:27,007 --> 00:21:28,000
[applause]

402
00:21:28,002 --> 00:21:30,004
That's good, sweetie.

403
00:21:34,012 --> 00:21:35,010
[horn blowing]

404
00:21:35,012 --> 00:21:41,004
[crowd voices]

405
00:21:41,006 --> 00:21:43,020
All the police were lined
up there when we got there.

406
00:21:43,022 --> 00:21:45,008
It was early.

407
00:21:45,010 --> 00:21:47,005
We must have got there quarter
after five, maybe five thirty.

408
00:21:47,007 --> 00:21:49,011
But they were there already.

409
00:21:49,013 --> 00:21:51,023
And by that time, all this
big crowd had gathered,

410
00:21:52,001 --> 00:21:53,013
you know, supporters.

411
00:21:53,015 --> 00:21:56,008
One car went through
with three men in it.

412
00:21:56,010 --> 00:21:58,010
They kind of slipped through.

413
00:21:58,012 --> 00:22:02,005
And the next car come through,
we were able to get in the road

414
00:22:02,007 --> 00:22:03,001
and lay down.

415
00:22:03,003 --> 00:22:04,000
[interposing voices]

416
00:22:04,002 --> 00:22:04,023
Come on, guys.

417
00:22:05,001 --> 00:22:05,019
Lay down.

418
00:22:05,021 --> 00:22:08,003
Lay down.

419
00:22:08,005 --> 00:22:10,021
Then we'll see what kind of
law we got in Harlan County.

420
00:22:10,023 --> 00:22:12,023
What kind of
state police we got?

421
00:22:13,001 --> 00:22:14,019
Get them bastards
manhandling women.

422
00:22:14,021 --> 00:22:16,002
That's what to do!

423
00:22:16,004 --> 00:22:18,008
We didn't give 'em
any resistance whatever.

424
00:22:18,010 --> 00:22:20,005
We just laid down in
the road because they

425
00:22:20,007 --> 00:22:23,006
were there to escort those
scabs through to work.

426
00:22:23,008 --> 00:22:26,003
And that's been going
on for a whole month.

427
00:22:26,005 --> 00:22:28,021
And we've just come
too far for that.

428
00:22:28,023 --> 00:22:32,020
[screaming]

429
00:22:32,022 --> 00:22:36,008
Taking pictures, [inaudible].

430
00:22:36,010 --> 00:22:39,020
[clapping]

431
00:22:39,022 --> 00:22:41,020
[keys jingling]

432
00:22:41,022 --> 00:22:43,004
[door closes]

433
00:22:43,006 --> 00:22:44,020
Oh, honey, they gotta
stay on that picket line.

434
00:22:44,022 --> 00:22:47,004
If they start scabbing, man,
they gotta go back down there.

435
00:22:47,006 --> 00:22:48,013
They can't let me down.

436
00:22:48,015 --> 00:22:50,013
I mean, shit, just bring
me a gun if they're going--

437
00:22:50,015 --> 00:22:54,003
I'd rather be dead
if I have to--

438
00:22:54,005 --> 00:22:55,023
have to know that they're
scabbing at Brookside.

439
00:22:56,001 --> 00:22:56,022
I can't stand it.

440
00:22:57,001 --> 00:22:59,001
I can't stand the thought of it.

441
00:22:59,003 --> 00:23:01,005
So just don't let
them, you know?

442
00:23:01,007 --> 00:23:03,003
[singing] Stay on
the picket line,

443
00:23:03,005 --> 00:23:04,019
always on the picket line.

444
00:23:04,021 --> 00:23:06,002
[speaking] I really mean it.

445
00:23:06,004 --> 00:23:09,012
We all [inaudible].

446
00:23:09,014 --> 00:23:11,001
Then just keep
on the picket line.

447
00:23:11,003 --> 00:23:13,006
[interposing voices]

448
00:23:13,008 --> 00:23:15,007
Just beat the hell
out of them scabs.

449
00:23:15,009 --> 00:23:16,023
Beat the shit out of them.

450
00:23:17,001 --> 00:23:17,019
[inaudible]

451
00:23:17,021 --> 00:23:19,007
Which one ain't took?

452
00:23:19,009 --> 00:23:21,000
I don't know,
but I got this one.

453
00:23:21,002 --> 00:23:22,021
- This top one ain't took here.
- Right there.

454
00:23:22,023 --> 00:23:23,019
Right there.

455
00:23:23,021 --> 00:23:24,016
This is a double mattress.

456
00:23:24,018 --> 00:23:25,015
I'll take this one.

457
00:23:25,017 --> 00:23:26,015
Hell, I'm legally--

458
00:23:26,017 --> 00:23:27,020
I was legally on
the picket line.

459
00:23:27,022 --> 00:23:29,001
I told 'em you wasn't.

460
00:23:29,003 --> 00:23:30,022
Tried to show 'em
in court down there,

461
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:32,016
and they wouldn't
accept the damn thing.

462
00:23:32,018 --> 00:23:35,000
Just going to violate
one more [inaudible]..

463
00:23:35,002 --> 00:23:37,010
Then that'll put us
right back. 'Cause you're

464
00:23:37,012 --> 00:23:38,016
a prisoner out there anyway.

465
00:23:38,018 --> 00:23:39,017
That's right.

466
00:23:39,019 --> 00:23:41,001
So you might as
well be in jail.

467
00:23:41,003 --> 00:23:42,014
[inaudible] be in jail.

468
00:23:42,016 --> 00:23:45,010
There's a judgment forth
that Bell Dawn, [inaudible],,

469
00:23:45,012 --> 00:23:48,007
Lois Scott, Betty Eldridge,
Betsy [inaudible],,

470
00:23:48,009 --> 00:23:51,001
and Melba Strong be
incarcerated for a period

471
00:23:51,003 --> 00:23:52,013
of 60 days from this date.

472
00:23:52,015 --> 00:23:54,001
Could I say?

473
00:23:54,003 --> 00:23:56,014
Because I haven't had a chance
to give any testimony today.

474
00:23:56,016 --> 00:23:58,012
I knew we weren't going
to get any justice.

475
00:23:58,014 --> 00:24:00,009
You say the laws
were made for us.

476
00:24:00,011 --> 00:24:03,021
The laws are not made for the
working people in this country.

477
00:24:03,023 --> 00:24:06,013
There's a person missing here
today, and that's Carl Horn.

478
00:24:06,015 --> 00:24:09,009
The law was made for people
like Carl Horn, not for us.

479
00:24:09,011 --> 00:24:12,007
So I knew when I came here,
without offering any testimony

480
00:24:12,009 --> 00:24:13,016
or getting up.

481
00:24:13,018 --> 00:24:15,003
I knew what I was doing at
Brookside, because that's

482
00:24:15,005 --> 00:24:16,012
what I wanted to do.

483
00:24:16,014 --> 00:24:18,020
For once, I was able to
take the offensive instead

484
00:24:18,022 --> 00:24:21,003
of coming down here to
take a step backward

485
00:24:21,005 --> 00:24:22,021
to try to defend what we did.

486
00:24:22,023 --> 00:24:24,019
What we did is right,
and we all know that.

487
00:24:24,021 --> 00:24:27,004
[applause]

488
00:24:33,006 --> 00:24:39,001
I resent the fact that
Judge Hogg is a [inaudible]

489
00:24:39,003 --> 00:24:41,000
and him a coal operator.

490
00:24:41,002 --> 00:24:43,008
And sitting beside
him, the circuit

491
00:24:43,010 --> 00:24:46,016
court clerk, Mary
Lou [inaudible],,

492
00:24:46,018 --> 00:24:47,012
is sitting up there.

493
00:24:47,014 --> 00:24:49,009
And her son is up there.

494
00:24:49,011 --> 00:24:51,001
He's a photographer
up there, taking

495
00:24:51,003 --> 00:24:53,000
the pictures for
them, to blacklist

496
00:24:53,002 --> 00:24:54,013
the men on the picket line.

497
00:24:54,015 --> 00:24:56,001
I resent that.

498
00:24:56,003 --> 00:24:58,021
I resent the fact that he can
make a law that can tell me

499
00:24:58,023 --> 00:25:00,008
that I can't go where I please.

500
00:25:00,010 --> 00:25:03,010
He's violating my
constitutional rights.

501
00:25:03,012 --> 00:25:05,021
My name is Norman Yarborough.

502
00:25:05,023 --> 00:25:08,006
On my right is Mr.
Logan Patterson,

503
00:25:08,008 --> 00:25:12,019
who is an attorney, who has
been retained by Eastover Mining

504
00:25:12,021 --> 00:25:15,002
Company as chief negotiator.

505
00:25:15,004 --> 00:25:16,020
Mr. Yarborough,
I'd like to ask you

506
00:25:16,022 --> 00:25:20,001
what you think about the
role of miners' wives

507
00:25:20,003 --> 00:25:23,003
play in this strike.

508
00:25:23,005 --> 00:25:25,021
Well, they certainly
played a big role in it.

509
00:25:25,023 --> 00:25:27,010
I would hate to
think that my wife

510
00:25:27,012 --> 00:25:30,002
would play this kind of role.

511
00:25:30,004 --> 00:25:32,001
Why?

512
00:25:32,003 --> 00:25:33,022
Well, there's
been some conduct

513
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:38,005
that I don't like to think
that our American women have

514
00:25:38,007 --> 00:25:40,014
to revert to.

515
00:25:40,016 --> 00:25:43,020
Is it a fact that the
Duke Power Company maintains

516
00:25:43,022 --> 00:25:46,022
housing for its employees
that has no water

517
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:48,005
and no indoor plumbing?

518
00:25:48,007 --> 00:25:49,009
Yes, sir.

519
00:25:49,011 --> 00:25:51,012
We were attempting
to move our people,

520
00:25:51,014 --> 00:25:55,006
and these are our people,
they're my people,

521
00:25:55,008 --> 00:25:59,021
move our people, upgrade
our people into trailers,

522
00:25:59,023 --> 00:26:04,010
Upgrade our people into better
housing, better conditions

523
00:26:04,012 --> 00:26:08,002
in all directions, because
they'll make us better people

524
00:26:08,004 --> 00:26:09,022
when we are able to do this.

525
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:16,005
[children playing]

526
00:26:16,007 --> 00:26:17,013
Larry!

527
00:26:17,015 --> 00:26:18,023
Come on to supper!

528
00:26:19,001 --> 00:26:21,023
It's a feudal system, I think.

529
00:26:22,001 --> 00:26:24,022
There's a very rich
class of people

530
00:26:25,001 --> 00:26:26,021
and then there are
the coal miners.

531
00:26:26,023 --> 00:26:29,003
And then there are the
people who are on relief,

532
00:26:29,005 --> 00:26:32,004
and that's about it in Harlan.

533
00:26:32,006 --> 00:26:33,015
They want to keep it this way.

534
00:26:33,017 --> 00:26:35,006
The way they keep it
that way is keeping

535
00:26:35,008 --> 00:26:37,009
a monopoly on the labor market.

536
00:26:37,011 --> 00:26:41,000
And they do that by
keeping other competitives

537
00:26:41,002 --> 00:26:45,018
or industries that will be
competitive for the labor,

538
00:26:45,020 --> 00:26:46,021
keep them out.

539
00:26:46,023 --> 00:26:48,014
There are a few
little places to work,

540
00:26:48,016 --> 00:26:50,012
but I mean, they don't pay
enough but the minimum wage

541
00:26:50,014 --> 00:26:52,000
there, you know, maybe $2.

542
00:26:52,002 --> 00:26:54,015
And you can't make a living
from that no more, you know.

543
00:26:54,017 --> 00:26:57,022
And if me and him-- if it
don't go United Miner Works,

544
00:26:58,000 --> 00:26:59,017
me and him are going to
have to leave Harlan County.

545
00:26:59,019 --> 00:27:01,013
That's for sure,
or maybe Kentucky.

546
00:27:01,015 --> 00:27:05,002
We'll have to go where it's a
union state to get a job again.

547
00:27:05,004 --> 00:27:08,021
Duke Power is a Southern
conservative company.

548
00:27:08,023 --> 00:27:13,019
Less than 10% of their employees
and their power plants and

549
00:27:13,021 --> 00:27:16,023
their line crews are organized.

550
00:27:17,001 --> 00:27:23,002
And they feel that if they
give in to the contract here,

551
00:27:23,004 --> 00:27:26,009
it will encourage
union organization

552
00:27:26,011 --> 00:27:29,001
in their home state of North
Carolina and South Carolina.

553
00:27:29,003 --> 00:27:31,005
[acoustic folk song playing]

554
00:27:32,005 --> 00:27:33,015
[man singing]

555
00:27:33,017 --> 00:27:38,004
They say in North Carolina
Duke Power runs the show.

556
00:27:38,006 --> 00:27:40,020
Carl Horn would like
to break the strike,

557
00:27:40,022 --> 00:27:43,022
but the miners tell him no.

558
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,023
Which side are you on, boys?

559
00:27:47,001 --> 00:27:50,016
Which side are you on?

560
00:27:50,018 --> 00:27:53,009
Going up in New York City.

561
00:27:53,011 --> 00:27:56,001
We've got to spread the news.

562
00:27:56,003 --> 00:27:58,023
Been fighting hard
for many months

563
00:27:59,001 --> 00:28:01,017
and we're not about to lose.

564
00:28:01,019 --> 00:28:04,005
Which side are you on, boys?

565
00:28:04,007 --> 00:28:07,014
Which side are you on?

566
00:28:07,016 --> 00:28:08,010
[street noise]

567
00:28:08,012 --> 00:28:09,022
You're from the South?

568
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,000
[inaudible] Yeah, he sounds
like he's from the South.

569
00:28:12,002 --> 00:28:13,018
You don't look like
you're all from--

570
00:28:13,020 --> 00:28:14,023
[laughs]

571
00:28:15,001 --> 00:28:18,000
We're gonna let people
know that if you buy

572
00:28:18,002 --> 00:28:20,001
Duke Power stock, it's risky.

573
00:28:20,003 --> 00:28:23,014
We've had several this morning
said they had Duke Power stock,

574
00:28:23,016 --> 00:28:25,021
but they wouldn't
it long, that they

575
00:28:25,023 --> 00:28:27,008
were going to get rid of it.

576
00:28:27,010 --> 00:28:29,021
And that sounded
beautiful to me.

577
00:28:29,023 --> 00:28:32,019
The tunnels here is
just like a mine's.

578
00:28:32,021 --> 00:28:37,014
Only ours is about
42 inches high.

579
00:28:37,016 --> 00:28:39,017
I think these are more
secure than a mine's though.

580
00:28:39,019 --> 00:28:41,020
I wouldn't mind going
under here, but your mines?

581
00:28:41,022 --> 00:28:43,003
Oh, yeah.

582
00:28:43,005 --> 00:28:45,005
[laughs] You wouldn't
want to go in the mines?

583
00:28:45,007 --> 00:28:47,005
They can make good profit
off of mines, you know,

584
00:28:47,007 --> 00:28:48,002
if they had a union.

585
00:28:48,004 --> 00:28:49,006
They won't give us one.

586
00:28:49,008 --> 00:28:50,014
They make some
profit, but they keep

587
00:28:50,016 --> 00:28:51,020
it all to themselves, right?

588
00:28:51,022 --> 00:28:52,019
Yeah.

589
00:28:52,021 --> 00:28:54,018
They don't spread the wealth.

590
00:28:54,020 --> 00:28:57,000
I thought you guys got paid
a little more than you do.

591
00:28:57,002 --> 00:28:58,012
You don't get paid
a bad salary, but I

592
00:28:58,014 --> 00:29:00,001
thought it was a little more.
- We get paid real good.

593
00:29:00,003 --> 00:29:01,011
No, it's not.

594
00:29:01,013 --> 00:29:02,006
But you know--

595
00:29:02,008 --> 00:29:03,021
What's real good--

596
00:29:03,023 --> 00:29:05,003
$5, $6 an hour?

597
00:29:05,005 --> 00:29:05,022
Yeah.

598
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:07,000
That's not real good.

599
00:29:07,002 --> 00:29:08,002
I make more than that.

600
00:29:08,004 --> 00:29:08,021
Yeah?

601
00:29:08,023 --> 00:29:09,023
Sure I do.

602
00:29:10,001 --> 00:29:12,000
A policeman makes
less down there.

603
00:29:12,002 --> 00:29:13,008
We make about seven.

604
00:29:13,010 --> 00:29:14,003
God.

605
00:29:14,005 --> 00:29:15,014
That's good money.

606
00:29:15,016 --> 00:29:17,014
We draw union strike benefits.

607
00:29:17,016 --> 00:29:21,008
And it's real hard, you
know, live on a hundred.

608
00:29:21,010 --> 00:29:23,016
Is your job real
dangerous, though?

609
00:29:23,018 --> 00:29:24,017
Well, you see, look at me.

610
00:29:24,019 --> 00:29:25,016
[inaudible]

611
00:29:25,018 --> 00:29:26,013
Yeah, but this is what I do.

612
00:29:26,015 --> 00:29:27,020
It's a lot of bullshit.

613
00:29:27,022 --> 00:29:29,021
I mean, a lot of people
don't understand that--

614
00:29:29,023 --> 00:29:31,020
that electricity
burning over there

615
00:29:31,022 --> 00:29:34,007
takes somebody dying
every day for it.

616
00:29:34,009 --> 00:29:36,011
One man dies every day.

617
00:29:38,019 --> 00:29:40,003
You've probably get
medical coverage.

618
00:29:40,005 --> 00:29:41,000
Free.

619
00:29:41,002 --> 00:29:42,012
Free medical coverage?

620
00:29:42,014 --> 00:29:43,022
I'd save up, buddy.

621
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:45,010
Buy a house or something.

622
00:29:45,012 --> 00:29:47,006
Kids all get sick, and I'd
have to spend every penny--

623
00:29:47,008 --> 00:29:48,001
What about dental?

624
00:29:48,003 --> 00:29:50,017
No dental.

625
00:29:50,019 --> 00:29:52,001
You got dental?
- [inaudible]

626
00:29:52,003 --> 00:29:52,020
God.

627
00:29:52,022 --> 00:29:53,018
We got dental.

628
00:29:53,020 --> 00:29:55,017
We got all kinds of health.

629
00:29:55,019 --> 00:29:57,001
We got drugs.

630
00:29:57,003 --> 00:30:00,007
I could retire at 36,
half pay, $10,000 a year.

631
00:30:00,009 --> 00:30:02,012
Well, they don't want us
to ever be able to retire.

632
00:30:02,014 --> 00:30:03,017
That's bad.

633
00:30:03,019 --> 00:30:05,001
That's the reason
we're here, you know?

634
00:30:05,003 --> 00:30:06,005
That's the reason
we're on strike.

635
00:30:06,007 --> 00:30:08,013
Been on strike nine months.

636
00:30:08,015 --> 00:30:09,008
Nine months?

637
00:30:09,010 --> 00:30:10,009
Nine months.

638
00:30:10,011 --> 00:30:11,010
I thought this
was the first day?

639
00:30:11,012 --> 00:30:13,009
No, this is nine months!

640
00:30:13,011 --> 00:30:14,021
We can't get it-- they
won't sign a contract.

641
00:30:14,023 --> 00:30:16,000
It's a good thing you
came up here to bring

642
00:30:16,002 --> 00:30:17,000
some publicity [inaudible].

643
00:30:17,002 --> 00:30:18,016
Yeah, yeah.

644
00:30:18,018 --> 00:30:23,018
The outstanding issues between
Duke Power and its coal mining

645
00:30:23,020 --> 00:30:26,013
subsidiary, Eastover
Mining Company,

646
00:30:26,015 --> 00:30:30,013
and the United Mine
Workers and the opinion--

647
00:30:30,015 --> 00:30:35,003
of the management of Eastover
and the management of Duke

648
00:30:35,005 --> 00:30:40,020
Power [inaudible] are the
absence of a no strike policy,

649
00:30:40,022 --> 00:30:44,012
refusal of the union to
agree to not strike during

650
00:30:44,014 --> 00:30:46,012
the life of the contract.

651
00:30:46,014 --> 00:30:49,013
If there are questions
on the contact

652
00:30:49,015 --> 00:30:51,008
of my report to
the stockholders,

653
00:30:51,010 --> 00:30:53,015
I'll entertain those questions.

654
00:30:53,017 --> 00:30:58,008
How come you hire gun thugs
to harass us around with?

655
00:30:58,010 --> 00:31:00,004
You're saying there
that the issue

656
00:31:00,006 --> 00:31:02,013
is for a no strike clause.

657
00:31:02,015 --> 00:31:05,007
Well, if we had a no
strike clause in there,

658
00:31:05,009 --> 00:31:07,006
Norman Yarborough could
kick us off of that hill,

659
00:31:07,008 --> 00:31:10,023
and there wouldn't be a
thing we could do about it.

660
00:31:11,001 --> 00:31:13,021
But I tell you, we
are in Harlan County.

661
00:31:13,023 --> 00:31:16,018
All of our life we've
been kicked around.

662
00:31:16,020 --> 00:31:18,005
We've been put in jail.

663
00:31:18,007 --> 00:31:19,008
We've been shot at.

664
00:31:19,010 --> 00:31:20,019
We've had dynamite
throwed at us.

665
00:31:20,021 --> 00:31:23,021
And then you don't want
us to have nothing.

666
00:31:23,023 --> 00:31:25,016
Well, I'll tell you, Mr. Horn.

667
00:31:25,018 --> 00:31:27,016
I'm going to be standing right
there on the picket line,

668
00:31:27,018 --> 00:31:30,023
looking at you just
as long as it takes.

669
00:31:31,001 --> 00:31:33,017
Thank you.

670
00:31:33,019 --> 00:31:38,014
Coal companies are not the JP
Morgans or the Hannas anymore.

671
00:31:38,016 --> 00:31:41,013
It's Occidental Petroleum
and Exxon and Sohio.

672
00:31:41,015 --> 00:31:42,018
They're the ones,
the oil companies,

673
00:31:42,020 --> 00:31:44,015
who control the coal industry.

674
00:31:44,017 --> 00:31:47,003
70% of all the
domestic coal reserves

675
00:31:47,005 --> 00:31:49,007
are owned by oil companies.

676
00:31:55,022 --> 00:31:59,007
There just can't
be any question

677
00:31:59,009 --> 00:32:03,023
that the health and the safety
of our employees in the mining

678
00:32:04,001 --> 00:32:09,012
industry must be
given first priority

679
00:32:09,014 --> 00:32:12,008
on humanitarian grounds alone.

680
00:32:12,010 --> 00:32:14,004
We find violation
after violation

681
00:32:14,006 --> 00:32:16,020
after violation in those mines.

682
00:32:16,022 --> 00:32:21,003
We have a national record that
looks very poor when laid up

683
00:32:21,005 --> 00:32:24,002
against the German national
record, the UK national record,

684
00:32:24,004 --> 00:32:26,009
the French national
record, the Netherlands

685
00:32:26,011 --> 00:32:30,003
national record, and the
others that I've examined.

686
00:32:30,005 --> 00:32:31,013
So I think that--

687
00:32:31,015 --> 00:32:33,005
I'm not indicting anyone.

688
00:32:33,007 --> 00:32:34,017
If anything, I'm
indicting myself.

689
00:32:34,019 --> 00:32:37,008
I'm inditing an agency
that I've been associated

690
00:32:37,010 --> 00:32:39,005
with for a long time.

691
00:32:39,007 --> 00:32:41,021
We haven't done all that we
should have in this field.

692
00:32:41,023 --> 00:32:44,008
[explosion]

693
00:32:57,023 --> 00:32:59,009
Oh, my god, Frankie.

694
00:32:59,011 --> 00:33:03,015
I said, the whole midnight
shift and the mine blew up.

695
00:33:03,017 --> 00:33:08,006
They're trapped in the mine, and
I said, Pete's in there, too.

696
00:33:08,008 --> 00:33:10,006
He left for work and he act--

697
00:33:10,008 --> 00:33:12,015
well, just kind of, like, he
didn't want to go to work.

698
00:33:12,017 --> 00:33:13,018
He'd rather stayed home.

699
00:33:13,020 --> 00:33:14,021
He said, maybe I
should stay home.

700
00:33:14,023 --> 00:33:16,002
And I said, why don't you?

701
00:33:16,004 --> 00:33:17,016
And he went to the
door about two or three

702
00:33:17,018 --> 00:33:19,022
different times, kept
saying, should I go

703
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:20,023
or should I stay home?

704
00:33:21,001 --> 00:33:23,000
Says it's bitten snow out there.

705
00:33:23,002 --> 00:33:24,010
He said, I just hate
to be on the road.

706
00:33:24,012 --> 00:33:25,020
I said, why don't
you stay home, then

707
00:33:25,022 --> 00:33:27,018
and pretend you're sick tonight.

708
00:33:27,020 --> 00:33:30,002
But he went, and then that
was the explosion [inaudible]..

709
00:33:30,004 --> 00:33:33,023
I live right almost on the
seat of the main explosion,

710
00:33:34,001 --> 00:33:35,004
right, Sara?

711
00:33:35,006 --> 00:33:37,010
And they said, you
get out of your house.

712
00:33:37,012 --> 00:33:38,022
And the police
told me to get out.

713
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:40,007
Do you know why?

714
00:33:40,009 --> 00:33:42,004
Because they was notified
to tell me, yeah, get out.

715
00:33:42,006 --> 00:33:43,017
Because they didn't
want me to see what

716
00:33:43,019 --> 00:33:47,004
was going on up at that
damn dirty filthy mines!

717
00:33:47,006 --> 00:33:48,013
I gave up.

718
00:33:48,015 --> 00:33:54,003
I figured we'd never make
it out because we just--

719
00:33:54,005 --> 00:33:55,023
we all passed out.

720
00:33:56,001 --> 00:34:03,013
I don't know whether any one
man didn't pass out or not.

721
00:34:03,015 --> 00:34:06,000
I couldn't say that,
'cause I know I did.

722
00:34:06,002 --> 00:34:10,002
When I woke up, I was,
like, froze to death.

723
00:34:10,004 --> 00:34:12,015
I've worked in the
mines about seven years.

724
00:34:12,017 --> 00:34:17,010
And I've really never been
too scared of the mines.

725
00:34:17,012 --> 00:34:23,008
But I don't like I'll
go back in the mines.

726
00:34:23,010 --> 00:34:28,010
And the television says, if
another explosion would occur,

727
00:34:28,012 --> 00:34:31,014
they'd have to seal the
mine, and about one o'clock

728
00:34:31,016 --> 00:34:32,020
that explosion came.

729
00:34:32,022 --> 00:34:36,009
And I says, they'll seal them.

730
00:34:36,011 --> 00:34:38,011
They sealed them.

731
00:34:38,013 --> 00:34:42,010
And then we knew that
was-- that was it.

732
00:34:42,012 --> 00:34:45,009
[machinery noises]

733
00:34:45,011 --> 00:34:46,015
[music playing]

734
00:34:46,017 --> 00:34:49,012
You can read it in
the paper and the radio

735
00:34:49,014 --> 00:34:57,013
tells us to raise our
children to be miners as well.

736
00:35:00,007 --> 00:35:07,016
Tell them how safe
the mines are today.

737
00:35:07,018 --> 00:35:15,002
And to be like daddy,
bring home a big pay.

738
00:35:15,004 --> 00:35:19,016
But don't you
believe it, my boy.

739
00:35:19,018 --> 00:35:24,008
That story's a lie.

740
00:35:24,010 --> 00:35:32,017
Remember the disaster
at the Mannington mine

741
00:35:32,019 --> 00:35:36,018
where 78 miners
were burned alive.

742
00:35:39,014 --> 00:35:44,004
Because of unsafe conditions,
your daddy's died.

743
00:35:50,014 --> 00:35:53,013
Now I'd like to
know, since they died,

744
00:35:53,015 --> 00:35:55,023
in order to help
the living, find

745
00:35:56,001 --> 00:35:57,019
out what caused that explosion.

746
00:35:57,021 --> 00:36:00,012
You know, you learn
from a tragedy.

747
00:36:00,014 --> 00:36:02,017
And then maybe they can help--

748
00:36:02,019 --> 00:36:04,003
Others.

749
00:36:04,005 --> 00:36:07,001
--others to live, and then
it wouldn't happen again.

750
00:36:07,003 --> 00:36:09,014
But as long as they're
greedy, and as long

751
00:36:09,016 --> 00:36:12,009
as they're rushing
the coal miner

752
00:36:12,011 --> 00:36:14,022
and wanting the
production before lives,

753
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:19,013
there will always be tragedies.

754
00:36:19,015 --> 00:36:20,018
I know there's
something wrong,

755
00:36:20,020 --> 00:36:22,011
but I didn't know what it was.

756
00:36:22,013 --> 00:36:23,021
And the doctors told me.

757
00:36:23,023 --> 00:36:25,004
About 60, don't you know?

758
00:36:25,006 --> 00:36:28,014
Yeah, about 60
something or along there.

759
00:36:28,016 --> 00:36:31,019
What would happen to you,
when you started realizing

760
00:36:31,021 --> 00:36:33,003
that something was wrong?

761
00:36:33,005 --> 00:36:34,021
Well, you just
couldn't get no breath.

762
00:36:34,023 --> 00:36:37,006
You'd walk a little
piece and you would give

763
00:36:37,008 --> 00:36:41,009
out, just a-panting for breath.

764
00:36:41,011 --> 00:36:44,021
And sometimes you couldn't
hardly get it no way.

765
00:36:44,023 --> 00:36:46,017
Lots of times I've had
to go to the hospital

766
00:36:46,019 --> 00:36:50,005
down here to the doctor and they
give me some shots and things.

767
00:36:50,007 --> 00:36:51,011
And I thought I was a goner.

768
00:36:51,013 --> 00:36:52,019
[MUSIC - HAZEL DICKENS, "BLACK
LUNG"]

769
00:36:52,021 --> 00:36:56,010
Black lung, black
lung, oh, your hands,

770
00:36:56,012 --> 00:37:06,022
I see coal as you reach for my
life and you torture my soul.

771
00:37:09,008 --> 00:37:14,022
Cold as that water hole
down in that dark cave

772
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:21,010
where I spent my life's
blood digging my own grave.

773
00:37:25,017 --> 00:37:29,009
When you start
destroying the lung tissue,

774
00:37:29,011 --> 00:37:33,003
as occurs in miners who have
pneumoconiosis and the end

775
00:37:33,005 --> 00:37:36,000
result of pneumoconiosis, there
really isn't anything that you

776
00:37:36,002 --> 00:37:38,013
can do to restore the lungs.

777
00:37:38,015 --> 00:37:40,017
There's just simply destroyed.

778
00:37:44,017 --> 00:37:47,005
170 over 100.

779
00:37:47,007 --> 00:37:49,015
[inaudible] are you?

780
00:37:49,017 --> 00:37:51,016
I'll be 67 [inaudible].

781
00:37:51,018 --> 00:37:52,021
67?

782
00:37:52,023 --> 00:37:55,011
Well, you couldn't see
your buddy on the other

783
00:37:55,013 --> 00:37:56,017
side of the [inaudible].

784
00:37:56,019 --> 00:38:00,013
We'd be covered just
black [inaudible]..

785
00:38:00,015 --> 00:38:03,000
Well, it don't even make
what color you went in at,

786
00:38:03,002 --> 00:38:06,004
you all-- we looked the
same when you came out.

787
00:38:06,006 --> 00:38:07,004
Right?
- That's right.

788
00:38:07,006 --> 00:38:07,022
[laughter]

789
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,015
[inaudible]

790
00:38:10,017 --> 00:38:11,018
We're soul brothers.

791
00:38:11,020 --> 00:38:13,005
Murray, that's right.

792
00:38:13,007 --> 00:38:15,012
When you came out, the
whites looked like the blacks

793
00:38:15,014 --> 00:38:16,020
so it wasn't any different.

794
00:38:16,022 --> 00:38:19,022
So you knew you was
getting plenty of dust.

795
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:21,016
There are also
miners that are working

796
00:38:21,018 --> 00:38:23,010
and who are very
symptomatic, but who

797
00:38:23,012 --> 00:38:27,021
don't dare quit unless they
can be reassured that they have

798
00:38:27,023 --> 00:38:29,007
sufficient impairment
that they'll

799
00:38:29,009 --> 00:38:31,016
be able to elect some sort
of disability benefits.

800
00:38:31,018 --> 00:38:34,001
And it's a kind of
a negative system.

801
00:38:34,003 --> 00:38:35,021
Because what we do
is we really force

802
00:38:35,023 --> 00:38:39,014
them to keep working until
they become that disabled.

803
00:38:39,016 --> 00:38:41,000
[MUSIC - HAZEL DICKENS, "BLACK
LUNG"]

804
00:38:41,002 --> 00:38:48,011
He went to the boss man
but he closed the door.

805
00:38:48,013 --> 00:38:55,009
Well, it seems you're not
wanted when you're sick

806
00:38:55,011 --> 00:38:58,005
and you're poor.

807
00:38:58,007 --> 00:39:06,006
You're not even covered
in their medical plans.

808
00:39:06,008 --> 00:39:13,008
And your life depends
on the favors of man.

809
00:39:16,011 --> 00:39:19,012
We want to do the
right thing about coal

810
00:39:19,014 --> 00:39:21,008
workers pneumoconiosis.

811
00:39:21,010 --> 00:39:24,013
But we think that the best
informed medical opinion will

812
00:39:24,015 --> 00:39:29,013
show you that it's not true that
the inhalation and retention

813
00:39:29,015 --> 00:39:32,012
of coal dust in the
lungs necessarily

814
00:39:32,014 --> 00:39:35,021
results in any impairment
of pulmonary function.

815
00:39:35,023 --> 00:39:40,001
And that on the contrary, only
a relatively small portion

816
00:39:40,003 --> 00:39:44,000
of coal miners who have coal
dust retained in the lungs

817
00:39:44,002 --> 00:39:47,008
have any resulting impairment
of pulmonary function,

818
00:39:47,010 --> 00:39:48,023
much less disability.

819
00:39:49,001 --> 00:39:52,003
This is one of
your brother's lungs.

820
00:39:52,005 --> 00:39:55,007
And this is what it
looks like at autopsy.

821
00:39:55,009 --> 00:39:58,005
And this is why he died.

822
00:39:58,007 --> 00:40:01,007
That's preventable.

823
00:40:01,009 --> 00:40:03,009
Other countries have done it.

824
00:40:03,011 --> 00:40:05,005
Other countries have
made tremendous strides.

825
00:40:05,007 --> 00:40:08,011
For example, the Australians
believe that they've

826
00:40:08,013 --> 00:40:10,015
completely eliminated the
problem of lung disease

827
00:40:10,017 --> 00:40:11,019
in their coal miners.

828
00:40:11,021 --> 00:40:13,000
[MUSIC - HAZEL DICKENS, "BLACK
LUNG"]

829
00:40:13,002 --> 00:40:17,015
Down at the
graveyard, the boss man

830
00:40:17,017 --> 00:40:24,015
came with his little
bunch of flowers.

831
00:40:24,017 --> 00:40:30,000
Dear god, what a shame!

832
00:40:30,002 --> 00:40:33,007
Take back those flowers.

833
00:40:33,009 --> 00:40:37,005
Don't you sing no sad songs.

834
00:40:37,007 --> 00:40:40,020
The die has been cast now.

835
00:40:40,022 --> 00:40:43,021
A good man is gone.

836
00:40:43,023 --> 00:40:50,004
[breathing machine cycling]

837
00:40:50,006 --> 00:40:52,016
It turns out that
1969 was a year

838
00:40:52,018 --> 00:40:56,008
for an election in the
United Mine Workers union.

839
00:40:56,010 --> 00:40:58,023
And with all the
dissatisfaction going on,

840
00:40:59,001 --> 00:41:01,003
there was, really,
for the first time,

841
00:41:01,005 --> 00:41:03,020
I guess, in the union's history,
there was really open talk

842
00:41:03,022 --> 00:41:06,008
of people opposing Tony Boyle.

843
00:41:06,010 --> 00:41:11,005
40 years I have to work
in a mine to get a pension,

844
00:41:11,007 --> 00:41:13,007
a meager pension at that.

845
00:41:13,009 --> 00:41:16,020
And I suppose when I do quit,
which will be in two years

846
00:41:16,022 --> 00:41:19,017
because I can't
stand it anymore,

847
00:41:19,019 --> 00:41:21,016
I won't be able
to get silicosis,

848
00:41:21,018 --> 00:41:23,021
because you have to be dead.

849
00:41:23,023 --> 00:41:25,011
I doubt Tony
Boyles ever knowed

850
00:41:25,013 --> 00:41:27,008
what coal dust is on his hands.

851
00:41:27,010 --> 00:41:29,019
All he's sitting back there,
up there on Washington

852
00:41:29,021 --> 00:41:31,013
Drive a big amount of money.

853
00:41:31,015 --> 00:41:32,020
What for?

854
00:41:32,022 --> 00:41:34,023
He doesn't even know what
the miners goes through.

855
00:41:35,001 --> 00:41:36,016
And to hell with him!

856
00:41:36,018 --> 00:41:38,010
That's the way I feel.

857
00:41:38,012 --> 00:41:40,023
Boyle's doing
nothing for the widows,

858
00:41:41,001 --> 00:41:43,010
Boyle's doing nothing
for the pensioners.

859
00:41:43,012 --> 00:41:44,019
I'll give you this.

860
00:41:44,021 --> 00:41:47,004
I'll give you that.

861
00:41:47,006 --> 00:41:54,000
I'll give you pie if I can
reach high enough in the sky

862
00:41:54,002 --> 00:41:56,003
in the sweet bye and bye.

863
00:41:56,005 --> 00:41:58,003
Well, the coal
miners in this country

864
00:41:58,005 --> 00:42:00,014
are damn sick and
tired of having

865
00:42:00,016 --> 00:42:03,000
a national president
of its organization

866
00:42:03,002 --> 00:42:05,008
that's in bed with
the coal operators.

867
00:42:05,010 --> 00:42:11,014
[MUSIC - HAZEL DICKENS, "COLD
BLOODED MURDER"]

868
00:42:11,016 --> 00:42:16,007
Clarksville, Pennsylvania
is not too far from here.

869
00:42:16,009 --> 00:42:21,012
Coal miners were hoping
for a brighter new year.

870
00:42:21,014 --> 00:42:26,018
But for John Yablonski,
his daughter and wife,

871
00:42:26,020 --> 00:42:31,022
the new year brought an ending
to their precious lives.

872
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:37,010
Well, it's cold blooded murder,
friends, I'm talking about now.

873
00:42:37,012 --> 00:42:42,007
Who's gonna stand up
and who's gonna fight?

874
00:42:42,009 --> 00:42:46,018
We better clean up that
union, put it on solid ground,

875
00:42:46,020 --> 00:42:53,009
and get rid of that dirty trash
keeps the working man down.

876
00:42:53,011 --> 00:42:56,007
Now we have nine
paid holidays.

877
00:42:56,009 --> 00:42:58,023
And I think the one
that tops them all is

878
00:42:59,001 --> 00:43:01,023
the holiday for your birthday.

879
00:43:02,001 --> 00:43:04,005
Every miner is given
the opportunity

880
00:43:04,007 --> 00:43:08,016
to work on his birthday
and he receives triple time

881
00:43:08,018 --> 00:43:10,003
for working on his birthday.

882
00:43:10,005 --> 00:43:13,007
I think that's really
something to be proud of.

883
00:43:13,009 --> 00:43:15,019
And this is the
thought and the idea

884
00:43:15,021 --> 00:43:19,001
and the accomplishment
of President Boyle.

885
00:43:19,003 --> 00:43:21,013
You know, when they asked
me how many terms do you want?

886
00:43:21,015 --> 00:43:23,007
You know how many
terms I told them?

887
00:43:23,009 --> 00:43:28,002
I told 'em, I said just as long
as the Supreme Being up there

888
00:43:28,004 --> 00:43:32,002
gives me the intellect
and the health to carry on

889
00:43:32,004 --> 00:43:34,017
and the membership
elect me to office,

890
00:43:34,019 --> 00:43:39,009
that's how many terms I want,
until I'm 180 years of age.

891
00:43:39,011 --> 00:43:45,015
[applause]

892
00:43:45,017 --> 00:43:47,012
Can you tell us just
where the bodies were found

893
00:43:47,014 --> 00:43:50,005
and some of the circumstances
surrounding the discovery?

894
00:43:50,007 --> 00:43:53,012
Well, the daughter
was in a bedroom

895
00:43:53,014 --> 00:43:55,006
adjoining the master bedroom.

896
00:43:55,008 --> 00:44:00,003
And Mr. And Mrs. Yablonski
were in the master bedroom.

897
00:44:00,005 --> 00:44:03,005
The events in
Washington, Pennsylvania

898
00:44:03,007 --> 00:44:06,020
show that murder is as
institutionalized within

899
00:44:06,022 --> 00:44:10,023
the UMWA as it is in the mafia.

900
00:44:11,001 --> 00:44:12,018
The order to kill--

901
00:44:12,020 --> 00:44:15,023
to kill the whole
family, if necessary,

902
00:44:16,001 --> 00:44:20,000
was as routinely transmitted
and carried out as an order

903
00:44:20,002 --> 00:44:24,003
to call a strike or
settle a grievance.

904
00:44:24,005 --> 00:44:26,010
We loved and
admired our father.

905
00:44:26,012 --> 00:44:28,000
We respected him.

906
00:44:28,002 --> 00:44:30,009
And my brother and I
would like to carry him

907
00:44:30,011 --> 00:44:34,010
to his final resting
place, but we

908
00:44:34,012 --> 00:44:37,009
deem it proper to do otherwise.

909
00:44:37,011 --> 00:44:40,000
My brother Joseph, with our
cousins from my mother's

910
00:44:40,002 --> 00:44:43,001
family, will carry our mother.

911
00:44:43,003 --> 00:44:47,002
And I, with our cousins
from my father's family,

912
00:44:47,004 --> 00:44:49,022
will carry our sister Charlotte.

913
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:51,011
We entrust our
father to the coal

914
00:44:51,013 --> 00:44:53,014
miners whom he loved so much.

915
00:44:53,016 --> 00:44:54,011
[music - "o death"]

916
00:44:54,013 --> 00:44:59,017
O, death Whoa, death.

917
00:44:59,019 --> 00:45:03,014
Please spare me
for another year.

918
00:45:03,016 --> 00:45:09,017
Please spare me over
for another year.

919
00:45:09,019 --> 00:45:11,007
The children prayed.

920
00:45:11,009 --> 00:45:12,016
The preacher preached.

921
00:45:12,018 --> 00:45:15,014
Time and mercy's out of reach.

922
00:45:15,016 --> 00:45:19,016
To death I come to take
the soul leave my body

923
00:45:19,018 --> 00:45:22,016
and leave it cold.

924
00:45:22,018 --> 00:45:25,001
Take the skin right
off the brain,

925
00:45:25,003 --> 00:45:29,004
earth and worms both
have their claim.

926
00:45:29,006 --> 00:45:32,006
O, death.

927
00:45:32,008 --> 00:45:35,000
O death.

928
00:45:35,002 --> 00:45:38,020
Please spare me on
for another year.

929
00:45:38,022 --> 00:45:42,008
Please spare me over
for another year.

930
00:45:48,007 --> 00:45:57,010
In 1969, there wasn't
any reform organization.

931
00:45:57,012 --> 00:46:01,011
This is 1972.

932
00:46:01,013 --> 00:46:05,020
And this is the year for
Miners for Democracy.

933
00:46:05,022 --> 00:46:09,017
Now you can look around
and see your brothers

934
00:46:09,019 --> 00:46:13,019
in other districts who are
willing to stand shoulder

935
00:46:13,021 --> 00:46:19,009
to shoulder with you to
throw Boyle and his crowd

936
00:46:19,011 --> 00:46:21,007
out for once and for all.

937
00:46:21,009 --> 00:46:24,008
[cheering]

938
00:46:24,010 --> 00:46:27,005
I'm proud of the honor of
heading up the slate of rank

939
00:46:27,007 --> 00:46:31,011
and file candidates for
the international offices

940
00:46:31,013 --> 00:46:33,018
for rank and file miners.

941
00:46:33,020 --> 00:46:39,004
We must have a safety program
that will guarantee our members

942
00:46:39,006 --> 00:46:42,009
a safe journey to
and from the mines,

943
00:46:42,011 --> 00:46:45,013
not one which accepts that
we must lose 200 or 300

944
00:46:45,015 --> 00:46:47,013
men every year in mining.

945
00:46:47,015 --> 00:46:50,018
I want to make it plain that
my commitment is to the rank

946
00:46:50,020 --> 00:46:51,014
and file miner.

947
00:46:51,016 --> 00:46:53,008
[music playing]

948
00:46:53,010 --> 00:46:57,022
When the ninth of
December rolls around,

949
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:01,019
we'll have our election day.

950
00:47:01,021 --> 00:47:05,015
And Boyle, you'd better
sit up and listen

951
00:47:05,017 --> 00:47:09,021
'cause here's what
we're gonna say.

952
00:47:09,023 --> 00:47:14,005
Well, Tony, you've been
at the top too long.

953
00:47:14,007 --> 00:47:19,002
Quit stealing all our pay.

954
00:47:19,004 --> 00:47:23,017
But Miller is here,
and the time is near.

955
00:47:23,019 --> 00:47:27,004
There's coming a reckoning day.

956
00:47:27,006 --> 00:47:29,018
There's coming a reckoning day.

957
00:47:29,020 --> 00:47:31,013
[applause]

958
00:47:31,015 --> 00:47:33,015
I now pronounce you
President of the United

959
00:47:33,017 --> 00:47:34,011
Mine Workers of America.

960
00:47:34,013 --> 00:47:35,005
[applause]

961
00:47:35,007 --> 00:47:37,009
Congratulations.

962
00:47:40,017 --> 00:47:42,007
Which office was this?

963
00:47:42,009 --> 00:47:44,023
This was Boyles's old
office and the other one was

964
00:47:45,001 --> 00:47:47,001
Suzanne Richard's old office.

965
00:47:47,003 --> 00:47:48,012
Neither lives here anymore.

966
00:47:48,014 --> 00:47:51,015
[applause]

967
00:47:51,017 --> 00:47:55,003
I do sign a
$0.20 royalty for--

968
00:47:55,005 --> 00:47:55,023
Peabody!

969
00:47:56,001 --> 00:47:56,023
--Peabody Coal Company.

970
00:47:57,001 --> 00:47:58,000
[laughter, applause]

971
00:47:58,002 --> 00:47:59,010
[inaudible]

972
00:47:59,012 --> 00:48:01,015
What'd you say?

973
00:48:01,017 --> 00:48:05,009
Mr. Boyle was giving a civil
deposition when he was intruded

974
00:48:05,011 --> 00:48:07,007
upon by three FBI agents.

975
00:48:07,009 --> 00:48:09,023
I think that's grossly unfair.

976
00:48:10,001 --> 00:48:12,012
I never expected that that
was going to come through,

977
00:48:12,014 --> 00:48:13,014
anything like this.
- Why?

978
00:48:13,016 --> 00:48:14,012
Paul?

979
00:48:14,014 --> 00:48:17,007
Because I had no forewarning.

980
00:48:17,009 --> 00:48:20,000
What about the charge itself?

981
00:48:20,002 --> 00:48:22,004
Well, as I read
the charge, I'm

982
00:48:22,006 --> 00:48:23,009
not supposed to say anything.

983
00:48:23,011 --> 00:48:24,011
My lawyer told me.

984
00:48:24,013 --> 00:48:27,017
[laughter]

985
00:48:27,019 --> 00:48:30,020
As you read the charge, what?

986
00:48:30,022 --> 00:48:34,014
As bad as the killers
are, Vealey and a Gilly

987
00:48:34,016 --> 00:48:38,006
and whatever they may be, they
don't compare to the people

988
00:48:38,008 --> 00:48:42,021
at the top who would use the
blood and sweat of miners

989
00:48:42,023 --> 00:48:45,002
to finance for killing.

990
00:48:45,004 --> 00:48:47,006
[inaudible]

991
00:48:47,008 --> 00:48:50,011
Excuse us, please.

992
00:48:50,013 --> 00:48:52,015
Excuse me.

993
00:48:55,021 --> 00:48:58,021
[bluegrass music playing]

994
00:49:37,021 --> 00:49:43,007
The United Mine Workers
today is a labor organization

995
00:49:43,009 --> 00:49:47,018
of rank and file miners
led by rank and file miners

996
00:49:47,020 --> 00:49:49,000
for rank and file miners.

997
00:49:49,002 --> 00:49:50,011
And that's the way
it ought to be.

998
00:49:50,013 --> 00:49:58,018
[cheering] I want to
introduce to all of you now,

999
00:49:58,020 --> 00:50:02,000
and I expect that most
of you already know her,

1000
00:50:02,002 --> 00:50:03,013
Miss Florence Reese.

1001
00:50:03,015 --> 00:50:06,007
I'm not a coal miner,
as you well know.

1002
00:50:06,009 --> 00:50:09,011
But I'm as close as I
could be not to be one.

1003
00:50:09,013 --> 00:50:12,017
My father was a coal miner,
was killed in the mines.

1004
00:50:12,019 --> 00:50:15,019
And my husband is slowly
dying of black lung.

1005
00:50:15,021 --> 00:50:19,008
And my husband and me was
in the strike in the '30s

1006
00:50:19,010 --> 00:50:20,021
in bloody Harlan County.

1007
00:50:20,023 --> 00:50:23,005
And I do mean it is bloody, too.

1008
00:50:23,007 --> 00:50:25,023
And they tell me,
these miners say,

1009
00:50:26,001 --> 00:50:28,009
we're going to stick it
out, unless Duke Power

1010
00:50:28,011 --> 00:50:31,002
signs a contract until
hell freezes over.

1011
00:50:31,004 --> 00:50:36,016
[cheering]

1012
00:50:36,018 --> 00:50:38,016
And the men know
they've got nothing

1013
00:50:38,018 --> 00:50:42,005
to lose but their chains
and their union to gain.

1014
00:50:42,007 --> 00:50:44,016
So I say, hang in there.

1015
00:50:44,018 --> 00:50:48,013
And now this song I
composed in the '30s.

1016
00:50:48,015 --> 00:50:50,007
And you know, I'm old.

1017
00:50:50,009 --> 00:50:51,012
That's forty years ago.

1018
00:50:51,014 --> 00:50:52,023
And I can't sing very well.

1019
00:50:53,001 --> 00:50:55,012
But you can ask the
scabs and the gun

1020
00:50:55,014 --> 00:50:58,020
thugs which side they're on,
because they're workers, too.

1021
00:51:01,023 --> 00:51:03,019
Come, all you poor workers.

1022
00:51:03,021 --> 00:51:09,017
Good news to you I'll tell,
how the good old union

1023
00:51:09,019 --> 00:51:12,007
has come in here to dwell.

1024
00:51:12,009 --> 00:51:15,001
Which side are you on?

1025
00:51:15,003 --> 00:51:17,013
Which side are you on?

1026
00:51:17,015 --> 00:51:22,023
If you go to Harlan County,
there is no neutral there.

1027
00:51:23,001 --> 00:51:28,017
You'll either be a union
man or a thug for JH Blair.

1028
00:51:28,019 --> 00:51:31,010
Which side are you on?

1029
00:51:31,012 --> 00:51:33,002
Which side are you on?

1030
00:51:33,004 --> 00:51:34,006
[inaudible]

1031
00:51:34,008 --> 00:51:35,012
But what about this
gun being pulled?

1032
00:51:35,014 --> 00:51:36,015
Oh, he pulled it right there.

1033
00:51:36,017 --> 00:51:37,012
[interposing voices]

1034
00:51:37,014 --> 00:51:38,013
--that station wagon.

1035
00:51:38,015 --> 00:51:39,013
He had it concealed in a rag.

1036
00:51:39,015 --> 00:51:40,020
[interposing voices]

1037
00:51:40,022 --> 00:51:42,013
[inaudible] He said if
we got in his way again,

1038
00:51:42,015 --> 00:51:44,011
he would mow us down.

1039
00:51:44,013 --> 00:51:46,012
I told him, I said, I'll see
you in federal court Monday,

1040
00:51:46,014 --> 00:51:47,013
if you say that again, sir.

1041
00:51:47,015 --> 00:51:50,021
We're here on peaceful business.

1042
00:51:50,023 --> 00:51:52,011
And so he put it back
his holster then,

1043
00:51:52,013 --> 00:51:55,020
wrapped it back up in a rag,
and got back in his car.

1044
00:51:55,022 --> 00:51:58,004
But he did pull
the gun and point it.

1045
00:51:58,006 --> 00:51:59,011
[engine running]

1046
00:51:59,013 --> 00:52:01,016
That's [inaudible] car
and that's the gun thug.

1047
00:52:01,018 --> 00:52:03,000
He is a known strike breaker.

1048
00:52:03,002 --> 00:52:04,009
Breaker!

1049
00:52:04,011 --> 00:52:05,017
That man is the gun thug.

1050
00:52:05,019 --> 00:52:08,002
He's the same one that
came up here before.

1051
00:52:08,004 --> 00:52:10,011
And he had the gun
in the car whenever

1052
00:52:10,013 --> 00:52:11,023
Red was talking to him.

1053
00:52:12,001 --> 00:52:14,011
And he's a-cruising around
here now, going up and down,

1054
00:52:14,013 --> 00:52:17,003
trying to find out
who's here, you see.

1055
00:52:17,005 --> 00:52:19,004
Who are you
working with, honey?

1056
00:52:19,006 --> 00:52:20,010
- What?
- Who do you work with?

1057
00:52:20,012 --> 00:52:21,012
United Press.

1058
00:52:21,014 --> 00:52:22,010
Well, you show
me your press card.

1059
00:52:22,012 --> 00:52:23,007
It's in the car.

1060
00:52:23,009 --> 00:52:24,005
And get my press card.

1061
00:52:24,007 --> 00:52:25,005
Show me your press card.

1062
00:52:25,007 --> 00:52:26,002
OK.

1063
00:52:26,004 --> 00:52:27,008
What's your name, sir?

1064
00:52:27,010 --> 00:52:28,022
My name is Basil Collins.

1065
00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:29,020
Do you work here?

1066
00:52:29,022 --> 00:52:30,018
Yes, ma'am.

1067
00:52:30,020 --> 00:52:32,001
What's your position here?

1068
00:52:32,003 --> 00:52:33,022
Land foreman.

1069
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:38,010
How do you feel about the
people picketing out here?

1070
00:52:38,012 --> 00:52:43,003
Well, I would have
no comment on that.

1071
00:52:43,005 --> 00:52:44,016
And you, sir?

1072
00:52:44,018 --> 00:52:45,023
Same thing.

1073
00:52:46,001 --> 00:52:47,011
Where's this press card
you was gonna show me?

1074
00:52:47,013 --> 00:52:49,010
- Can I see your identification?
- Ma'am--

1075
00:52:49,012 --> 00:52:50,020
May I see your identification?

1076
00:52:50,022 --> 00:52:52,023
Yes ma'am, if I had any,
I'm sure I've lost it.

1077
00:52:53,001 --> 00:52:54,008
All I can do is just say--

1078
00:52:54,010 --> 00:52:56,013
Well, I think I might
have misplaced mine, too.

1079
00:52:56,015 --> 00:52:57,009
OK.

1080
00:52:57,011 --> 00:52:58,003
OK.

1081
00:52:58,005 --> 00:53:00,005
All right.

1082
00:53:00,007 --> 00:53:02,020
He had the nerve
enough, believe it or not,

1083
00:53:02,022 --> 00:53:05,000
to run for sheriff.

1084
00:53:06,019 --> 00:53:10,002
We're not going to have
the violence of the '30s.

1085
00:53:10,004 --> 00:53:12,023
The conditions are not the same.

1086
00:53:13,001 --> 00:53:15,010
There is probably
nothing illegal

1087
00:53:15,012 --> 00:53:17,023
or immoral about the union
trying to get the best

1088
00:53:18,001 --> 00:53:20,009
contract they can,
including the one

1089
00:53:20,011 --> 00:53:22,004
they have with everyone else.

1090
00:53:22,006 --> 00:53:24,023
On the other hand, the fact
that somebody else has made

1091
00:53:25,001 --> 00:53:27,009
a contract with the
United Mine Workers

1092
00:53:27,011 --> 00:53:29,012
doesn't raise any
obligation on our part,

1093
00:53:29,014 --> 00:53:33,008
as I see it, legally or
morally, to accept this contract

1094
00:53:33,010 --> 00:53:35,022
any more than we could
go to the union and say,

1095
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:37,011
we want you to
accept the Southern

1096
00:53:37,013 --> 00:53:40,009
Labor union contract which
we have at two other mines.

1097
00:53:40,011 --> 00:53:42,004
Is it as simple as that?

1098
00:53:42,006 --> 00:53:44,020
You do not want
the major industry

1099
00:53:44,022 --> 00:53:47,003
agreement with United
Mine Workers, that is,

1100
00:53:47,005 --> 00:53:48,014
the 1971 agreement?

1101
00:53:48,016 --> 00:53:51,005
It's that simple, yes, if
you want to make it simple.

1102
00:53:55,015 --> 00:53:57,000
We'll bug 'em a
little bit this morning,

1103
00:53:57,002 --> 00:53:59,020
play with them a little bit.

1104
00:53:59,022 --> 00:54:00,021
Lester, you're mean.

1105
00:54:00,023 --> 00:54:01,015
I know.

1106
00:54:01,017 --> 00:54:03,001
Mean old man.

1107
00:54:03,003 --> 00:54:05,015
That's what they
say, don't they?

1108
00:54:05,017 --> 00:54:07,007
You can tell them
different, can't you?

1109
00:54:07,009 --> 00:54:09,010
[laughs]

1110
00:54:09,012 --> 00:54:12,005
I'm as gentle
as a newborn baby.

1111
00:54:12,007 --> 00:54:18,009
[engine starting]

1112
00:54:18,011 --> 00:54:21,018
This morning was the first
time that they went to work.

1113
00:54:21,020 --> 00:54:24,003
All of them had
guns and pistols.

1114
00:54:24,005 --> 00:54:28,000
And it was just-- you know,
it was really bad, I thought.

1115
00:54:41,022 --> 00:54:43,009
Get the hell out of my way.

1116
00:54:43,011 --> 00:54:44,020
[inaudible]

1117
00:54:44,022 --> 00:54:46,006
Get back in here now.

1118
00:54:46,008 --> 00:54:48,005
Get back in there,
all the rest of 'em.

1119
00:54:48,007 --> 00:54:50,007
Hold everybody.

1120
00:54:50,009 --> 00:54:51,005
[inaudible]

1121
00:54:51,007 --> 00:54:52,004
[inaudible]

1122
00:54:52,006 --> 00:54:55,017
[inaudible]

1123
00:54:55,019 --> 00:54:56,015
[inaudible]

1124
00:54:56,017 --> 00:54:58,002
Hey, there's a gun, boys.

1125
00:54:58,004 --> 00:54:59,009
Get a picture of that gun.
- Where?

1126
00:54:59,011 --> 00:55:00,004
Right here, boys.

1127
00:55:00,006 --> 00:55:02,016
[men yelling]

1128
00:55:02,018 --> 00:55:04,003
Let's go!

1129
00:55:04,005 --> 00:55:05,002
[inaudible]

1130
00:55:05,004 --> 00:55:08,000
Goddamn daddy over--

1131
00:55:08,002 --> 00:55:10,014
Well, there goes that
goddamn [inaudible]..

1132
00:55:14,003 --> 00:55:19,013
[interposing voices]

1133
00:55:19,015 --> 00:55:20,013
Get that gun.

1134
00:55:20,015 --> 00:55:21,023
[inaudible]

1135
00:55:22,001 --> 00:55:24,000
Come on in, boys.

1136
00:55:24,002 --> 00:55:25,017
Come on in.

1137
00:55:25,019 --> 00:55:27,021
Hello.

1138
00:55:33,012 --> 00:55:34,010
Hell!

1139
00:55:34,012 --> 00:55:35,021
[inaudible]

1140
00:55:35,023 --> 00:55:38,002
[inaudible]!

1141
00:55:52,021 --> 00:55:54,001
Let's go, boys.

1142
00:55:54,003 --> 00:55:54,021
Let's go, man.

1143
00:55:54,023 --> 00:55:57,001
Everybody, let's go.

1144
00:56:07,006 --> 00:56:08,020
I'm not happy about it.
We can't hold them.

1145
00:56:08,022 --> 00:56:10,001
We can hold them,
but we can't hold

1146
00:56:10,003 --> 00:56:12,002
with all them guns they got.

1147
00:56:12,004 --> 00:56:12,020
They got guns.

1148
00:56:12,022 --> 00:56:14,004
We don't got 'em.

1149
00:56:14,006 --> 00:56:15,023
They allowed to carry
guns and sticks.

1150
00:56:16,001 --> 00:56:18,007
We can't have nothing but
a knife and a whet rock.

1151
00:56:18,009 --> 00:56:20,019
That's right.

1152
00:56:20,021 --> 00:56:22,015
AJ, we just heard that
Mickey Messer, president

1153
00:56:22,017 --> 00:56:24,006
of the Brookside
local, his house

1154
00:56:24,008 --> 00:56:28,017
was shot up last night by
some Highsplint employees.

1155
00:56:28,019 --> 00:56:31,005
They called his name to
get him to come outside

1156
00:56:31,007 --> 00:56:32,013
and he went out the back door.

1157
00:56:32,015 --> 00:56:34,014
And they opened up on
him with a machine gun.

1158
00:56:34,016 --> 00:56:37,005
Right here is one shot.

1159
00:56:37,007 --> 00:56:39,018
Up here is a shot.

1160
00:56:39,020 --> 00:56:43,013
And then that here is a shot.

1161
00:56:43,015 --> 00:56:48,019
I'm sure it was scabs, gun
thugs, Eastovers, [inaudible]..

1162
00:56:48,021 --> 00:56:50,003
There ain't nobody
else that'd want

1163
00:56:50,005 --> 00:56:51,014
to do anything like that to me.

1164
00:56:51,016 --> 00:56:53,007
I've never bothered anybody.

1165
00:56:53,009 --> 00:56:54,021
They was shooting down
over [inaudible] house

1166
00:56:54,023 --> 00:56:56,007
and we all slept on the floor.

1167
00:56:56,009 --> 00:56:57,023
Honey, I [inaudible].

1168
00:56:58,001 --> 00:56:59,001
Thugs shooting up--

1169
00:56:59,003 --> 00:56:59,018
Yes.

1170
00:56:59,020 --> 00:57:01,011
[interposing voices]

1171
00:57:01,013 --> 00:57:04,008
Kevin knocked me out
of bed, and the kids

1172
00:57:04,010 --> 00:57:05,008
was all in there crying.

1173
00:57:05,010 --> 00:57:08,013
[inaudible]

1174
00:57:08,015 --> 00:57:10,011
Makes my blood broil.

1175
00:57:10,013 --> 00:57:16,015
If we don't want it to come back
to the '30s and Bloody Harlan,

1176
00:57:16,017 --> 00:57:20,018
and all of this
crowd, women and men,

1177
00:57:20,020 --> 00:57:23,019
can get out on the picket
line two or three times,

1178
00:57:23,021 --> 00:57:25,006
we've got it made.

1179
00:57:25,008 --> 00:57:27,022
If you're afraid to go to
sleep and you can't wake up,

1180
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:29,013
just stay up all night.

1181
00:57:29,015 --> 00:57:33,019
Let's not let it happen
to come back to the '30s.

1182
00:57:33,021 --> 00:57:35,005
Because I was here.

1183
00:57:35,007 --> 00:57:39,001
I seen children hungry,
crying for something to eat.

1184
00:57:39,003 --> 00:57:41,004
And oh, I can't.

1185
00:57:41,006 --> 00:57:42,007
I can't take it.

1186
00:57:42,009 --> 00:57:43,017
I'll be out.

1187
00:57:43,019 --> 00:57:47,006
If I get shot, they can't
shoot the union out of me.

1188
00:57:51,001 --> 00:57:52,002
[music, "which side are you on"]

1189
00:57:52,004 --> 00:57:53,013
[fire crackling]

1190
00:57:53,015 --> 00:57:57,013
If you don't want your
husbands to die in a coal mine,

1191
00:57:57,015 --> 00:58:03,012
I'll see you in the morning
out on the picket line.

1192
00:58:03,014 --> 00:58:06,003
Which side are you on?

1193
00:58:06,005 --> 00:58:09,016
Which side are you on?

1194
00:58:09,018 --> 00:58:12,016
We're fighting for a contract.

1195
00:58:12,018 --> 00:58:15,003
We're fighting to be free.

1196
00:58:15,005 --> 00:58:18,003
And the picket line
is a long line.

1197
00:58:18,005 --> 00:58:20,022
There's room for you and me.

1198
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:23,018
Which side are you on?

1199
00:58:23,020 --> 00:58:25,023
Which side are you on?

1200
00:58:26,021 --> 00:58:27,020
[engines running]

1201
00:58:27,022 --> 00:58:30,008
[inaudible]

1202
00:58:44,016 --> 00:58:48,014
You find two or three,
sometimes four, pickets.

1203
00:58:48,016 --> 00:58:51,001
Very rarely are we finding six.

1204
00:58:51,003 --> 00:58:52,013
Now where are all
these people that

1205
00:58:52,015 --> 00:58:54,007
was raising hell
because they couldn't

1206
00:58:54,009 --> 00:58:57,005
have 50 on these picket lines?

1207
00:58:57,007 --> 00:58:59,008
Now the understanding
in this local union

1208
00:58:59,010 --> 00:59:05,009
was that strike
benefits would be paid

1209
00:59:05,011 --> 00:59:08,020
and every man would pull
his share of picket duty.

1210
00:59:08,022 --> 00:59:10,003
Right or wrong?

1211
00:59:10,005 --> 00:59:11,014
Right.

1212
00:59:11,016 --> 00:59:14,005
All right, then what in the
hell's going on around here?

1213
00:59:14,007 --> 00:59:15,019
Let me tell you something.

1214
00:59:15,021 --> 00:59:17,014
When I was sitting out on the
picket line, you was in bed.

1215
00:59:17,016 --> 00:59:19,001
And you was in bed.

1216
00:59:19,003 --> 00:59:20,004
So don't tell me--

1217
00:59:20,006 --> 00:59:21,013
and so I know--

1218
00:59:21,015 --> 00:59:22,022
Yeah, but we went to jail--

1219
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:23,020
Oh, you went to jail.

1220
00:59:23,022 --> 00:59:24,017
You went to jail.

1221
00:59:24,019 --> 00:59:26,000
Who else went to jail?

1222
00:59:26,002 --> 00:59:27,017
Was you the only one?
- No.

1223
00:59:27,019 --> 00:59:28,023
[inaudible]

1224
00:59:29,001 --> 00:59:30,023
We stayed over there
as long as we could stay

1225
00:59:31,001 --> 00:59:32,004
without going back to jail.

1226
00:59:32,006 --> 00:59:33,022
Let's call for a
moment of silence.

1227
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:36,014
She's not done nothing
but cause trouble.

1228
00:59:36,016 --> 00:59:38,008
You know, you make me sick.

1229
00:59:38,010 --> 00:59:40,009
Well, you make me sick too.

1230
00:59:40,011 --> 00:59:42,001
[interposing voices]

1231
00:59:42,003 --> 00:59:44,009
--to you and tell
you what they tell me,

1232
00:59:44,011 --> 00:59:46,005
that you're running around
with their husbands,

1233
00:59:46,007 --> 00:59:48,010
that you're trying to take
their husbands away from them.

1234
00:59:48,012 --> 00:59:50,015
Well, OK, then they told
me you're an alcoholic

1235
00:59:50,017 --> 00:59:51,017
and everything else.

1236
00:59:51,019 --> 00:59:53,005
I don't care who
takes whose man,

1237
00:59:53,007 --> 00:59:55,000
who lives with whose
man or what they do.

1238
00:59:55,002 --> 00:59:57,023
If they take mine, and take
him on, they can have him.

1239
00:59:58,001 --> 00:59:59,023
I'll shed no tears.

1240
01:00:00,001 --> 01:00:01,010
I'm not after a man.

1241
01:00:01,012 --> 01:00:02,011
I'm after a contract.

1242
01:00:02,013 --> 01:00:03,014
I'm raising two boys.

1243
01:00:03,016 --> 01:00:04,008
[cheering]

1244
01:00:04,010 --> 01:00:10,018
[interposing voices]

1245
01:00:10,020 --> 01:00:11,018
I'll tell you.

1246
01:00:11,020 --> 01:00:13,003
We can't let our brother down.

1247
01:00:13,005 --> 01:00:15,016
We got to stand on solid ground.

1248
01:00:15,018 --> 01:00:17,011
And then we're
going to go through.

1249
01:00:17,013 --> 01:00:19,010
If we're going to
start letting personal--

1250
01:00:19,012 --> 01:00:22,004
what we feel about each other
personally get in the way,

1251
01:00:22,006 --> 01:00:24,023
then we're not gonna be
able to accomplish anything.

1252
01:00:25,001 --> 01:00:27,016
I don't count myself
nothing big in the club.

1253
01:00:27,018 --> 01:00:29,023
I don't count myself no
bigger than nobody else.

1254
01:00:30,001 --> 01:00:31,013
The rest of 'em has more
to do with it than I

1255
01:00:31,015 --> 01:00:35,013
do because my husband is messed
up in the mines, retired,

1256
01:00:35,015 --> 01:00:37,017
and the Eastover
just pushed us out.

1257
01:00:37,019 --> 01:00:40,012
We was pushed out before the
rent was up and all of that.

1258
01:00:40,014 --> 01:00:45,003
[crying] It smashed up our
daddies, down with coal dust

1259
01:00:45,005 --> 01:00:47,009
from that mines.

1260
01:00:47,011 --> 01:00:48,023
I went to school,
the age of school,

1261
01:00:49,001 --> 01:00:51,002
I got part of the sixth
grade, because daddy

1262
01:00:51,004 --> 01:00:54,003
got $8 and something a shift.

1263
01:00:54,005 --> 01:00:57,019
Nothing to go to school
on, had to go in overalls.

1264
01:00:57,021 --> 01:01:01,006
And [inaudible] probably
even after [inaudible],,

1265
01:01:01,008 --> 01:01:06,020
coal out of it and sell it,
and walk off of that mountain

1266
01:01:06,022 --> 01:01:08,005
mines to school.

1267
01:01:08,007 --> 01:01:10,009
And they're all burned
up there, not even alive.

1268
01:01:10,011 --> 01:01:12,005
I've got Mom's coal oil lamps.

1269
01:01:12,007 --> 01:01:14,009
I've got her stove irons
a setting there for them

1270
01:01:14,011 --> 01:01:17,017
to look at and walking
to school and back.

1271
01:01:17,019 --> 01:01:22,010
[side conversations]

1272
01:01:22,012 --> 01:01:23,017
And I know
everybody's disappointed

1273
01:01:23,019 --> 01:01:25,008
we don't have a bigger crowd.

1274
01:01:25,010 --> 01:01:28,015
And we're disappointed that
more people haven't come in.

1275
01:01:28,017 --> 01:01:30,008
But when you get down
to it in this fight,

1276
01:01:30,010 --> 01:01:32,000
and like in any
other fight, you've

1277
01:01:32,002 --> 01:01:33,018
got to depend on yourselves.

1278
01:01:33,020 --> 01:01:35,019
Nobody in the end is
going to do it for you.

1279
01:01:35,021 --> 01:01:37,010
The union is going to back you.

1280
01:01:37,012 --> 01:01:38,020
And we're going
to do all we can.

1281
01:01:38,022 --> 01:01:41,010
But you've got to win
this fight yourselves.

1282
01:01:41,012 --> 01:01:43,002
Now, it's the first
time East Kentucky

1283
01:01:43,004 --> 01:01:45,022
has stood up against the coal
operators, and you're doing it.

1284
01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:48,021
And when you win, you're
fighting for your kids

1285
01:01:48,023 --> 01:01:50,006
and your grandkids.

1286
01:01:50,008 --> 01:01:51,020
Every one of them will
have a better life because

1287
01:01:51,022 --> 01:01:53,011
of what you're doing here.

1288
01:01:53,013 --> 01:01:55,011
And that's why the
fight's so hard.

1289
01:01:55,013 --> 01:01:57,003
If it wasn't so much
at stake, they wouldn't

1290
01:01:57,005 --> 01:01:58,007
be fighting you this hard.

1291
01:01:58,009 --> 01:01:59,012
They wouldn't shoot
into your homes

1292
01:01:59,014 --> 01:02:01,009
if there wasn't
so much at stake.

1293
01:02:01,011 --> 01:02:03,000
And if they're not enough
on the picket line,

1294
01:02:03,002 --> 01:02:04,016
then when you come to the
picket line, on the way,

1295
01:02:04,018 --> 01:02:07,015
stop by, and pick someone
up, and knock on his door,

1296
01:02:07,017 --> 01:02:09,016
and ask them to
come along with you.

1297
01:02:09,018 --> 01:02:10,023
Bob, are you
going to be there?

1298
01:02:11,001 --> 01:02:12,001
Where?

1299
01:02:12,003 --> 01:02:13,010
At the picket
line [inaudible]??

1300
01:02:13,012 --> 01:02:14,021
Yeah.

1301
01:02:14,023 --> 01:02:17,002
Y'all don't know what y'all's
going up against up there.

1302
01:02:17,004 --> 01:02:19,015
It's the thugs that's
sitting there in the highway

1303
01:02:19,017 --> 01:02:21,001
with guns in their hands.

1304
01:02:21,003 --> 01:02:22,009
[inaudible]

1305
01:02:22,011 --> 01:02:24,007
We can't do nothing except
get up there and wiggle.

1306
01:02:24,009 --> 01:02:25,023
Well, how do you
feel about it, Tommy?

1307
01:02:26,001 --> 01:02:28,004
I mean, how do you feel
about us come up there?

1308
01:02:28,006 --> 01:02:30,012
I don't want to go up
there against their will.

1309
01:02:30,014 --> 01:02:33,006
I want to be welcomed
by [inaudible]..

1310
01:02:33,008 --> 01:02:35,023
Well, we've been
expecting you [inaudible]..

1311
01:02:36,001 --> 01:02:43,003
[laughter]

1312
01:02:43,005 --> 01:02:46,012
Now we've got a new
president, Sudie Crusenberry

1313
01:02:46,014 --> 01:02:47,016
is our new president.

1314
01:02:47,018 --> 01:02:48,022
So let's give her a hand.

1315
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:54,013
[applause]

1316
01:02:54,015 --> 01:02:57,009
And we've got two
treasurers, co-treasurers--

1317
01:02:57,011 --> 01:02:59,013
Dorothy Johnson and
Mary Lou Ferguson.

1318
01:02:59,015 --> 01:03:02,018
[applause]

1319
01:03:02,020 --> 01:03:08,002
I'm really tickled that we've
got this many people out, you

1320
01:03:08,004 --> 01:03:09,014
know, today, and all of us out.

1321
01:03:09,016 --> 01:03:12,001
And I think that one
thing, it's helped us.

1322
01:03:12,003 --> 01:03:14,007
Because last week, we
had such a struggle.

1323
01:03:14,009 --> 01:03:18,022
But I think that what's
come out of it is good.

1324
01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:20,002
Come on!

1325
01:03:20,004 --> 01:03:21,001
Do you think it's loaded?

1326
01:03:21,003 --> 01:03:22,009
Yeah.

1327
01:03:22,011 --> 01:03:23,016
Well, you shouldn't carry
it with you like that.

1328
01:03:23,018 --> 01:03:24,017
Has it got a safety on it?

1329
01:03:24,019 --> 01:03:26,016
Oh, it's got a safety on it.

1330
01:03:26,018 --> 01:03:29,023
And if it didn't, [inaudible].

1331
01:03:30,001 --> 01:03:30,022
[laughter]

1332
01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:32,014
Long as we got [inaudible].

1333
01:03:32,016 --> 01:03:35,011
I want you to meet
the [inaudible]..

1334
01:03:35,013 --> 01:03:38,004
Tell them I started out with
a switch on that picket line,

1335
01:03:38,006 --> 01:03:40,013
but I'm ended up
now, carrying a gun.

1336
01:03:40,015 --> 01:03:42,009
I mean, all the time, too.

1337
01:03:42,011 --> 01:03:45,005
Hell, after, you
know, especially

1338
01:03:45,007 --> 01:03:47,018
since what's happening
up there at Highsplint,

1339
01:03:47,020 --> 01:03:49,011
and knowing them
and seeing them,

1340
01:03:49,013 --> 01:03:51,003
seeing the machine guns now.

1341
01:03:51,005 --> 01:03:57,006
It's time to-- well, you'd be
crazy not to carry a gun now.

1342
01:03:57,008 --> 01:03:59,007
You would.

1343
01:03:59,009 --> 01:04:00,003
Yeah?

1344
01:04:00,005 --> 01:04:02,006
[laughs] Well, all right.

1345
01:04:02,008 --> 01:04:05,006
I'll be going-- are y'all
going to be back at six?

1346
01:04:14,006 --> 01:04:17,004
[multiple gunshots]

1347
01:04:17,006 --> 01:04:18,004
[screaming]

1348
01:04:18,006 --> 01:04:21,005
[inaudible]

1349
01:04:21,007 --> 01:04:24,003
Basil!

1350
01:04:24,005 --> 01:04:26,014
Don't shoot!

1351
01:04:26,016 --> 01:04:30,014
[screaming continues]

1352
01:04:38,004 --> 01:04:39,003
Look out!

1353
01:04:39,005 --> 01:04:40,008
I'm coming back across the road.

1354
01:04:40,010 --> 01:04:43,008
Keep showing that
[inaudible],, honey.

1355
01:04:43,010 --> 01:04:45,014
[grabs camera]

1356
01:04:45,016 --> 01:04:47,018
No!

1357
01:04:50,020 --> 01:04:52,008
You stay away from me.

1358
01:04:52,010 --> 01:04:53,018
Fuck you.

1359
01:04:53,020 --> 01:04:59,001
[screaming, crying]

1360
01:04:59,003 --> 01:05:05,001
Fucking A. Take 'em back over
there and take your pants off,

1361
01:05:05,003 --> 01:05:06,015
baby.

1362
01:05:06,017 --> 01:05:09,008
All right, men,
let's break it up now.

1363
01:05:09,010 --> 01:05:11,005
[inaudible],, let
these people live.

1364
01:05:11,007 --> 01:05:13,003
[pipe clangs to the ground]

1365
01:05:13,005 --> 01:05:14,021
You know that nigger?

1366
01:05:14,023 --> 01:05:18,002
That nigger is a better
man than you will ever be.

1367
01:05:18,004 --> 01:05:21,006
He's a better man
than you will ever be.

1368
01:05:21,008 --> 01:05:24,012
Three or four of them damn ol'
gun thugs get on him and start

1369
01:05:24,014 --> 01:05:26,004
kicking a woman,
and hitting a woman,

1370
01:05:26,006 --> 01:05:29,023
and then another one
come over and started

1371
01:05:30,001 --> 01:05:32,012
beating a man and getting
four or five of them on 'em.

1372
01:05:32,014 --> 01:05:37,017
And then see Basil Collins
holding a gun and calling one--

1373
01:05:37,019 --> 01:05:41,002
a union man, that believes
in these union men,

1374
01:05:41,004 --> 01:05:43,002
I want you to get that nigger.

1375
01:05:43,004 --> 01:05:44,003
You hear that, nigger?

1376
01:05:44,005 --> 01:05:44,022
Get that nigger.

1377
01:05:45,000 --> 01:05:46,004
I'm sick of it!

1378
01:05:46,006 --> 01:05:48,000
I'm sick of it.

1379
01:05:48,002 --> 01:05:52,016
And it's time for us to
stand together and get

1380
01:05:52,018 --> 01:05:55,009
just as violent as they are.

1381
01:05:55,011 --> 01:05:56,008
I agree.

1382
01:05:56,010 --> 01:05:57,023
Right.

1383
01:05:58,001 --> 01:06:01,000
They're violent, so by God,
you fight fire with fire.

1384
01:06:01,002 --> 01:06:03,017
It seemed like they
were pretty well-organized

1385
01:06:03,019 --> 01:06:05,006
to me this morning.

1386
01:06:05,008 --> 01:06:07,022
And we're going to have to get
a little tighter organized.

1387
01:06:08,000 --> 01:06:09,011
We're going to get
together, the women

1388
01:06:09,013 --> 01:06:13,004
are going to get together,
and be responsible for 10

1389
01:06:13,006 --> 01:06:15,008
people each at four o'clock.

1390
01:06:15,010 --> 01:06:17,019
If you women going
to bring ten each,

1391
01:06:17,021 --> 01:06:21,006
then the men ought to be able
to say, well, we'll bring five

1392
01:06:21,008 --> 01:06:25,001
or we'll bring 10
or we'll bring 15.

1393
01:06:25,003 --> 01:06:27,000
And that would be
working together.

1394
01:06:27,002 --> 01:06:29,013
You're going to have to get
some more black people out,

1395
01:06:29,015 --> 01:06:32,005
too, 'cause you look
odd [inaudible]..

1396
01:06:32,007 --> 01:06:33,010
I am odd.

1397
01:06:33,012 --> 01:06:36,001
[interposing voices]

1398
01:06:36,003 --> 01:06:40,000
They want us to set
by and watch 'em shoot

1399
01:06:40,002 --> 01:06:41,013
and not us shoot back.

1400
01:06:41,015 --> 01:06:43,022
And the police is not going to
do nothing about it, either.

1401
01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:45,017
They're to blame.

1402
01:06:45,019 --> 01:06:49,001
Just like that, just
attack the hell out of them.

1403
01:06:49,003 --> 01:06:50,000
And not run.

1404
01:06:50,002 --> 01:06:51,020
Let your conscience be your--

1405
01:06:51,022 --> 01:06:54,015
I never run.

1406
01:06:54,017 --> 01:06:55,015
I had one.

1407
01:06:55,017 --> 01:06:56,019
One is all I could handle.

1408
01:06:56,021 --> 01:06:57,017
But I got him.

1409
01:06:57,019 --> 01:07:00,010
He didn't come no farther.

1410
01:07:00,012 --> 01:07:02,023
And if they's enough of us
up there, and we can get one,

1411
01:07:03,001 --> 01:07:05,004
if each one of us can get
one, hell, we can do it.

1412
01:07:05,006 --> 01:07:09,017
Men, women, and children, all.

1413
01:07:09,019 --> 01:07:11,021
It's time to stand
up and be counted.

1414
01:07:11,023 --> 01:07:16,004
Don't you gonna be throwed
back for 500 years.

1415
01:07:16,006 --> 01:07:18,016
Now we're gonna have a
picket line in the morning.

1416
01:07:18,018 --> 01:07:22,013
And we hope to have
a big picket line.

1417
01:07:22,015 --> 01:07:24,001
It's going to be
set up a little bit

1418
01:07:24,003 --> 01:07:25,010
different than the last ones.

1419
01:07:25,012 --> 01:07:27,016
We can't have a picket
line bringing a 30 caliber

1420
01:07:27,018 --> 01:07:29,015
machine gun shooting at you.

1421
01:07:29,017 --> 01:07:31,015
These ladies are sitting ducks.

1422
01:07:31,017 --> 01:07:33,014
Now we're going to have to
get out there and back them.

1423
01:07:33,016 --> 01:07:35,002
That's all they are to it.

1424
01:07:35,004 --> 01:07:36,023
They come up to back us, and
we're not even backing them.

1425
01:07:37,001 --> 01:07:38,012
And it's pretty disgusting.

1426
01:07:38,014 --> 01:07:40,018
And we'd like to see-- we know
about who ain't been there.

1427
01:07:40,020 --> 01:07:45,001
We'd like to see you out
there once in a while.

1428
01:07:45,003 --> 01:07:47,011
Has anybody got any questions?

1429
01:07:47,013 --> 01:07:48,016
Bob?

1430
01:07:48,018 --> 01:07:50,001
Ought to start praying
together [inaudible]..

1431
01:07:50,003 --> 01:07:53,002
Hell, I'm praying,
too, but [inaudible]..

1432
01:07:53,004 --> 01:07:55,021
Ed's pretty shaky up there.

1433
01:07:55,023 --> 01:07:58,001
We got some good ones, though.

1434
01:08:01,003 --> 01:08:02,007
Anything anybody
want to bring up?

1435
01:08:02,009 --> 01:08:03,002
Can I talk?

1436
01:08:03,004 --> 01:08:04,002
Come on up here.

1437
01:08:04,004 --> 01:08:06,018
You sure can.

1438
01:08:06,020 --> 01:08:11,012
If there's anybody in here
that can't or is not with us

1439
01:08:11,014 --> 01:08:14,004
and can't go with
us in the morning,

1440
01:08:14,006 --> 01:08:18,004
I'd rather for them to leave
before that I finish this,

1441
01:08:18,006 --> 01:08:20,013
because I do want
to know if we're

1442
01:08:20,015 --> 01:08:24,006
going to have these people here,
or if we can depend on them

1443
01:08:24,008 --> 01:08:25,019
or what.

1444
01:08:25,021 --> 01:08:28,013
Because if we can't, we're not
going to go up there no more,

1445
01:08:28,015 --> 01:08:30,017
and have those machine
guns shot at us

1446
01:08:30,019 --> 01:08:34,008
and have the gun thugs a-coming
across and attacking us.

1447
01:08:34,010 --> 01:08:35,017
We're not going to do that.

1448
01:08:35,019 --> 01:08:39,006
Now we're with you, and
we'll stick with you.

1449
01:08:39,008 --> 01:08:42,009
All these women, we
got a whole gang of 'em

1450
01:08:42,011 --> 01:08:44,014
that says they'll go
with them tomorrow

1451
01:08:44,016 --> 01:08:48,010
and we're going to be at
Mack's in the morning at 5:00.

1452
01:08:48,012 --> 01:08:51,008
Now we're not going
to go any earlier

1453
01:08:51,010 --> 01:08:53,004
than that, because
if we do, we're

1454
01:08:53,006 --> 01:08:55,010
just sitting ducks for them.

1455
01:08:55,012 --> 01:08:57,002
And they'll wait for us.

1456
01:08:57,004 --> 01:08:58,016
And we're not going
to tell you where

1457
01:08:58,018 --> 01:09:01,019
we're going to set up the picket
line until in the morning.

1458
01:09:01,021 --> 01:09:03,003
If you want to know
where the picket

1459
01:09:03,005 --> 01:09:05,005
line is going to be set
up, you'll be at Mack's

1460
01:09:05,007 --> 01:09:06,020
in the morning at 5:00.

1461
01:09:06,022 --> 01:09:08,014
We need every man
and woman there.

1462
01:09:08,016 --> 01:09:11,011
There's enough Brookside
pickets and Highsplint pickets

1463
01:09:11,013 --> 01:09:14,019
and women that those scabs
wouldn't mean a thing

1464
01:09:14,021 --> 01:09:16,009
if we get all of them up there.

1465
01:09:16,011 --> 01:09:20,004
But we're not a-going
to do it laying in bed.

1466
01:09:20,006 --> 01:09:24,007
[voice in background]

1467
01:09:24,009 --> 01:09:26,019
Think they're going
to shoot at us today?

1468
01:09:26,021 --> 01:09:28,019
Shot at us yesterday.

1469
01:09:28,021 --> 01:09:30,016
What about today?

1470
01:09:30,018 --> 01:09:32,021
I don't know.

1471
01:09:35,022 --> 01:09:36,019
You scared?

1472
01:09:36,021 --> 01:09:37,015
I hope not.

1473
01:09:37,017 --> 01:09:38,012
Yeah.

1474
01:09:38,014 --> 01:09:39,007
Ain't you?

1475
01:09:39,009 --> 01:09:45,002
[laughs]

1476
01:09:45,004 --> 01:09:47,006
I just hope nobody gets hurt.

1477
01:09:52,017 --> 01:09:53,019
I don't believe.

1478
01:09:53,021 --> 01:09:54,020
No, we would have
seen them. 'Cause

1479
01:09:54,022 --> 01:09:56,000
we got people out on that.

1480
01:09:56,002 --> 01:09:57,004
You let them
bastard scabs come.

1481
01:09:57,006 --> 01:09:58,010
We got our guns now.

1482
01:09:58,012 --> 01:10:00,004
They may not, though.

1483
01:10:00,006 --> 01:10:01,017
They may work two shifts.

1484
01:10:01,019 --> 01:10:04,002
Nah, they ain't going to do
nothing [inaudible] like that.

1485
01:10:04,004 --> 01:10:05,019
No, they don't
[inaudible] doing that.

1486
01:10:05,021 --> 01:10:06,016
You get all disgusted--

1487
01:10:06,018 --> 01:10:07,012
All right.

1488
01:10:07,014 --> 01:10:08,011
[inaudible]

1489
01:10:08,013 --> 01:10:09,022
[whistle]

1490
01:10:10,000 --> 01:10:13,009
[squeaking noise]

1491
01:10:13,011 --> 01:10:17,019
[inaudible] over
here a little bit.

1492
01:10:30,013 --> 01:10:34,015
Basil Collins,
right in front of you.

1493
01:10:34,017 --> 01:10:40,021
[inaudible]

1494
01:10:40,023 --> 01:10:44,009
[women chanting]
Basil Collins.

1495
01:10:44,011 --> 01:10:46,001
We shall not be moved.

1496
01:10:46,003 --> 01:10:47,003
[women singing]

1497
01:10:47,005 --> 01:10:51,007
We shall be, we
shall not be moved.

1498
01:10:51,009 --> 01:10:57,011
Just like a tree that's
standing by the water,

1499
01:10:57,013 --> 01:11:00,011
we shall not be moved.

1500
01:11:00,013 --> 01:11:02,022
[inaudible] rise up!

1501
01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:04,003
[inaudible] terrified.

1502
01:11:04,005 --> 01:11:05,003
[interposing voices]

1503
01:11:05,005 --> 01:11:07,021
We're just waiting for you.

1504
01:11:07,023 --> 01:11:10,021
Are we close now [inaudible].

1505
01:11:10,023 --> 01:11:12,015
And we wasn't
blocking the road.

1506
01:11:12,017 --> 01:11:13,020
They was blocking the road.

1507
01:11:13,022 --> 01:11:15,009
They've got it
blocked all the way.

1508
01:11:15,011 --> 01:11:19,013
[interposing voices]

1509
01:11:19,015 --> 01:11:21,010
You putting the car
there, so either remove it

1510
01:11:21,012 --> 01:11:23,011
or I'll call the
wrecker to remove it.

1511
01:11:23,013 --> 01:11:25,003
- That's neutral lanes.
- No, it's not.

1512
01:11:25,005 --> 01:11:26,008
No, it's not, [inaudible].

1513
01:11:26,010 --> 01:11:28,002
And you know it's
not, [inaudible]..

1514
01:11:28,004 --> 01:11:28,022
It's not, [inaudible].

1515
01:11:29,000 --> 01:11:29,018
You know what it is.

1516
01:11:29,020 --> 01:11:30,016
And I'll tell you.

1517
01:11:30,018 --> 01:11:32,005
You know what I told you?

1518
01:11:32,007 --> 01:11:33,013
I don't give a damn how much
money you make being a sheriff,

1519
01:11:33,015 --> 01:11:34,015
but don't go against the union.

1520
01:11:34,017 --> 01:11:35,013
That's all I'm asking.

1521
01:11:35,015 --> 01:11:36,015
When you left that car--

1522
01:11:36,017 --> 01:11:38,005
That's the only thing I ask.

1523
01:11:38,007 --> 01:11:40,021
Baby, you can stand here and
raise hell all you want to.

1524
01:11:40,023 --> 01:11:42,008
This road's got to be cleared.
- All right.

1525
01:11:42,010 --> 01:11:43,021
Will you go up there
when they shoot machine

1526
01:11:43,023 --> 01:11:44,021
guns across the highway?

1527
01:11:44,023 --> 01:11:45,019
- No, he won't.
- No?

1528
01:11:45,021 --> 01:11:46,016
Will you go up there then?

1529
01:11:46,018 --> 01:11:47,022
No, he won't.

1530
01:11:48,000 --> 01:11:49,003
[inaudible]

1531
01:11:49,005 --> 01:11:50,004
[interposing voices]
No, he won't do it.

1532
01:11:50,006 --> 01:11:51,010
Why don't you [inaudible]?

1533
01:11:51,012 --> 01:11:52,017
You went up there yesterday.

1534
01:11:52,019 --> 01:11:53,015
I know your
grandchildren [inaudible]..

1535
01:11:53,017 --> 01:11:54,022
[interposing voices]

1536
01:11:55,000 --> 01:11:56,010
[inaudible] that
17-year-old boy, he won't.

1537
01:11:56,012 --> 01:11:57,014
I mean, I see.

1538
01:11:57,016 --> 01:11:59,017
You know goddamn gee
that was told to me.

1539
01:11:59,019 --> 01:12:01,020
And I wouldn't believe
it before the election.

1540
01:12:01,022 --> 01:12:03,006
It was told me
that you did this.

1541
01:12:03,008 --> 01:12:04,019
[BASEBALL BAT RHYTHMICALLY
BANGING THE GROUND]

1542
01:12:04,021 --> 01:12:05,018
We're not home.

1543
01:12:05,020 --> 01:12:07,004
Excuse me, Mr. Runes?

1544
01:12:07,006 --> 01:12:08,019
I have a warrant
for Basil Collins.

1545
01:12:08,021 --> 01:12:09,014
[interposing voices]

1546
01:12:09,016 --> 01:12:10,014
We want you to--

1547
01:12:10,016 --> 01:12:11,015
Hurray!

1548
01:12:11,017 --> 01:12:13,005
--throw Basil
[inaudible] in jail.

1549
01:12:13,007 --> 01:12:15,005
[inaudible] you've
got a warrant for him.

1550
01:12:15,007 --> 01:12:16,015
[interposing voices]

1551
01:12:16,017 --> 01:12:17,013
--right now.

1552
01:12:17,015 --> 01:12:18,021
You won't do it.

1553
01:12:18,023 --> 01:12:20,013
Will you two give me
a chance to do my job?

1554
01:12:20,015 --> 01:12:22,018
[inaudible] Let's
see you hang him, now.

1555
01:12:22,020 --> 01:12:24,002
Let's see you do it.

1556
01:12:24,004 --> 01:12:25,004
Somebody pay me $7.00 for
the fee of the arrest.

1557
01:12:25,006 --> 01:12:26,000
[crowd erupts angrily]

1558
01:12:26,002 --> 01:12:34,020
[interposing voices]

1559
01:12:34,022 --> 01:12:36,007
Here's your $7.00.

1560
01:12:36,009 --> 01:12:37,020
How much more you want?

1561
01:12:37,022 --> 01:12:39,017
Hell, you can have it all.

1562
01:12:39,019 --> 01:12:40,015
We'll get you up $100.

1563
01:12:40,017 --> 01:12:42,001
We'll raise it.

1564
01:12:42,003 --> 01:12:42,019
Now look.

1565
01:12:42,021 --> 01:12:43,018
Take him to jail.

1566
01:12:43,020 --> 01:12:44,023
I am going to do my job.

1567
01:12:45,001 --> 01:12:46,008
And this happens to
be part of my job.

1568
01:12:46,010 --> 01:12:47,003
Yes!

1569
01:12:47,005 --> 01:12:48,002
Now he's got it.

1570
01:12:48,004 --> 01:12:48,022
He's got it.

1571
01:12:49,000 --> 01:12:50,004
OK, now let's see it.

1572
01:12:50,006 --> 01:12:51,012
Do him in priority, though.

1573
01:12:51,014 --> 01:12:52,013
He'll be arrested.

1574
01:12:52,015 --> 01:12:54,002
But these cars got to move one.

1575
01:12:54,004 --> 01:12:55,003
Well, get him right now.

1576
01:12:55,005 --> 01:12:56,014
You arrest him.

1577
01:12:56,016 --> 01:13:00,002
We'll detain him for you.

1578
01:13:00,004 --> 01:13:01,019
Hell, don't you worry.

1579
01:13:01,021 --> 01:13:04,017
[cheering]

1580
01:13:04,019 --> 01:13:06,003
[SINGING, "BATTLE HYMN OF THE
REPUBLIC"]

1581
01:13:06,005 --> 01:13:06,023
[interposing voices]

1582
01:13:07,001 --> 01:13:08,014
--hallelujah.

1583
01:13:08,016 --> 01:13:12,019
Glory, glory, hallelujah.

1584
01:13:12,021 --> 01:13:13,014
Mark?

1585
01:13:13,016 --> 01:13:15,010
Under arrest for what?

1586
01:13:15,012 --> 01:13:17,012
Uh, disorderly
conduct, I guess.

1587
01:13:17,014 --> 01:13:18,019
I don't know.

1588
01:13:18,021 --> 01:13:20,023
Flashing a deadly weapon.

1589
01:13:24,014 --> 01:13:26,004
Once again, that's
part of my job.

1590
01:13:26,006 --> 01:13:29,017
And moving this car is
part of my job also.

1591
01:13:29,019 --> 01:13:35,019
[inaudible]

1592
01:13:35,021 --> 01:13:37,007
I want to see
that you've moved.

1593
01:13:37,009 --> 01:13:38,003
Then we'll go into town.

1594
01:13:38,005 --> 01:13:39,011
All right.

1595
01:13:39,013 --> 01:13:42,020
Soon as these
people leave my truck.

1596
01:13:42,022 --> 01:13:44,016
Move back from his truck.

1597
01:13:44,018 --> 01:13:45,017
Get away from my truck.

1598
01:13:45,019 --> 01:13:47,021
Let's move back
from the truck.

1599
01:13:51,021 --> 01:13:52,015
Now did you arrest him?

1600
01:13:52,017 --> 01:13:54,023
[interposing voices]

1601
01:13:55,001 --> 01:13:58,000
If you've come to get us
to get him out, [inaudible]..

1602
01:13:58,002 --> 01:14:00,017
This is not a
one-sided thing, Melissa.

1603
01:14:00,019 --> 01:14:02,006
Now I'm going to
take him to town,

1604
01:14:02,008 --> 01:14:03,021
but I'm also moving that car.

1605
01:14:03,023 --> 01:14:06,021
You're letting him drive himself
to town after he gets up there.

1606
01:14:06,023 --> 01:14:08,000
That's what you're doing?

1607
01:14:08,002 --> 01:14:09,001
What's the
difference, so long as--

1608
01:14:09,003 --> 01:14:09,022
Oh, no.

1609
01:14:10,000 --> 01:14:10,022
They's a lot of difference.

1610
01:14:11,000 --> 01:14:12,007
There's a lot of difference.

1611
01:14:12,009 --> 01:14:14,010
I tell You one thing, if
they got a warrant for us,

1612
01:14:14,012 --> 01:14:16,007
you would come and
take us to jail.

1613
01:14:16,009 --> 01:14:18,003
Lois, you're taking
things in your own hands.

1614
01:14:18,005 --> 01:14:19,007
You're considering--

1615
01:14:19,009 --> 01:14:20,015
I'm not taking
things in my own hands.

1616
01:14:20,017 --> 01:14:22,012
You're thinking one
way, and no other way.

1617
01:14:22,014 --> 01:14:23,015
Oh, know what?

1618
01:14:23,017 --> 01:14:25,013
How other way are
there to think?

1619
01:14:25,015 --> 01:14:27,013
Whenever you get shot
at with machine guns.

1620
01:14:27,015 --> 01:14:29,001
They shot at us
with machine guns.

1621
01:14:29,003 --> 01:14:32,008
How many of your men have
I up and hauled off to jail?

1622
01:14:32,010 --> 01:14:34,000
This is the first
time you've come out.

1623
01:14:34,002 --> 01:14:34,019
I will say that.

1624
01:14:34,021 --> 01:14:36,001
This has shocked me.

1625
01:14:36,003 --> 01:14:37,009
This has absolutely
shocked me to death.

1626
01:14:37,011 --> 01:14:38,003
So be it.

1627
01:14:38,005 --> 01:14:39,010
Well, you tell me--

1628
01:14:39,012 --> 01:14:41,007
You're down here on
a public highway now.

1629
01:14:41,009 --> 01:14:42,015
You're not up there
at the picket line.

1630
01:14:42,017 --> 01:14:44,006
You're not curbside
at the picket line.

1631
01:14:44,008 --> 01:14:45,015
You're here in the middle--

1632
01:14:45,017 --> 01:14:47,011
[inaudible] they're
shooting machine guns at us.

1633
01:14:47,013 --> 01:14:49,003
Well, they can also
transfer them down here

1634
01:14:49,005 --> 01:14:50,004
if they're going to kill you.

1635
01:14:50,006 --> 01:14:51,016
They know that.

1636
01:14:51,018 --> 01:14:53,007
Well, yeah, but see, we've
got a better chance down here.

1637
01:14:53,009 --> 01:14:54,013
[women singing]

1638
01:14:54,015 --> 01:14:57,008
Well, nevertheless,
that car has got to go.

1639
01:14:57,010 --> 01:14:58,020
[singing] They
got the sheriff.

1640
01:14:58,022 --> 01:15:00,018
We shall not be moved.

1641
01:15:00,020 --> 01:15:06,005
Just like a tree that's
planted by the water,

1642
01:15:06,007 --> 01:15:09,023
we shall not be moved.

1643
01:15:10,001 --> 01:15:14,020
We shall not be, we
shall not be moved.

1644
01:15:14,022 --> 01:15:18,020
We shall not be, we
shall not be moved.

1645
01:15:18,022 --> 01:15:23,021
Just like a tree that's
planted by the water,

1646
01:15:23,023 --> 01:15:26,021
we shall not be moved.

1647
01:15:26,023 --> 01:15:30,008
[cheering, whistling]

1648
01:15:30,010 --> 01:15:32,012
We shall not be moved.

1649
01:15:36,008 --> 01:15:37,017
[BAND PLAYING, "THIS LITTLE
LIGHT OF MINE"]

1650
01:15:37,019 --> 01:15:41,006
Whoa, [inaudible]
on the mountain top.

1651
01:15:41,008 --> 01:15:42,018
We gonna let it shine.

1652
01:15:42,020 --> 01:15:45,017
Oh, the mountain top.

1653
01:15:45,019 --> 01:15:48,015
Oh, we gonna let it shine.

1654
01:15:48,017 --> 01:15:53,006
Whoa, on the mountain top,
we gonna let it shine.

1655
01:15:53,008 --> 01:15:54,018
Let it shine.

1656
01:15:54,020 --> 01:15:56,006
Let it shine.

1657
01:15:56,008 --> 01:15:59,014
Let it shine.

1658
01:15:59,016 --> 01:16:01,018
Well, we're going to
try to get more eyes,

1659
01:16:01,020 --> 01:16:04,023
and give these
brothers a little help.

1660
01:16:05,001 --> 01:16:07,002
I think it's a great day.

1661
01:16:07,004 --> 01:16:12,000
It's really rejoicing to me.

1662
01:16:12,002 --> 01:16:15,014
[band in background]
I'm gonna let it shine.

1663
01:16:15,016 --> 01:16:17,013
Let it shine.

1664
01:16:17,015 --> 01:16:18,021
Let it shine.

1665
01:16:18,023 --> 01:16:21,020
[marchers chanting]
[inaudible] All the way!

1666
01:16:21,022 --> 01:16:22,017
All the way!

1667
01:16:22,019 --> 01:16:24,002
Go in tomorrow.

1668
01:16:24,004 --> 01:16:30,013
[interposing voices]

1669
01:16:30,015 --> 01:16:34,015
We're Harlan County union
from the top of our head

1670
01:16:34,017 --> 01:16:37,003
to the sole of our foot.

1671
01:16:37,005 --> 01:16:39,006
You think that the
company has any possibility

1672
01:16:39,008 --> 01:16:41,010
of breaking the strike?

1673
01:16:41,012 --> 01:16:43,017
Well, at this point in
time, I don't think so.

1674
01:16:43,019 --> 01:16:47,005
The show of strength on the
part of our membership here,

1675
01:16:47,007 --> 01:16:50,006
and the general public
awareness in East Kentucky

1676
01:16:50,008 --> 01:16:52,015
indicates to me that it
isn't going to be easy,

1677
01:16:52,017 --> 01:16:54,005
but we're going
to be successful.

1678
01:16:54,007 --> 01:16:56,015
Do you have any idea how
long this may go, and are you

1679
01:16:56,017 --> 01:16:57,023
prepared to--

1680
01:16:58,001 --> 01:16:59,016
It's pretty hard to say
how long it's going to go.

1681
01:16:59,018 --> 01:17:02,001
But we're here to stay,
as I said earlier.

1682
01:17:02,003 --> 01:17:03,014
[singing] Yeah,
but my name is Sam.

1683
01:17:03,016 --> 01:17:05,022
I'm a shuttle car driving man.

1684
01:17:06,000 --> 01:17:10,000
Said my name is Sam, I'm
a shuttle car driving man.

1685
01:17:10,002 --> 01:17:13,012
With the six big wheels
a-rollin' up [inaudible]

1686
01:17:13,014 --> 01:17:16,023
I'm neverending [inaudible].

1687
01:17:17,001 --> 01:17:20,021
Well, this may not
be a [inaudible]..

1688
01:17:20,023 --> 01:17:24,011
But I'm going to work
hard at it every day.

1689
01:17:24,013 --> 01:17:26,008
So let's [inaudible] the union.

1690
01:17:26,010 --> 01:17:29,022
And I'll keep doing my
dirty work underground.

1691
01:17:30,000 --> 01:17:31,009
Yeah, my name is Sam.

1692
01:17:31,011 --> 01:17:33,022
I'm a shuttle car driving man.

1693
01:17:34,000 --> 01:17:35,009
Said my name is Sam.

1694
01:17:35,011 --> 01:17:37,018
I'm a shuttle car driving man.

1695
01:17:37,020 --> 01:17:40,021
With six big wheels
a-rollin' [inaudible]

1696
01:17:40,023 --> 01:17:43,001
a neverending [inaudible].

1697
01:17:47,022 --> 01:17:50,008
[cheering]

1698
01:17:56,020 --> 01:17:58,022
I don't know of any time
in coal mining history

1699
01:17:59,000 --> 01:18:02,008
when the president
and principal officers

1700
01:18:02,010 --> 01:18:04,017
of an international union
have come to the coalfields

1701
01:18:04,019 --> 01:18:07,000
during an organizing battle.

1702
01:18:07,002 --> 01:18:10,013
It's most gratifying to
me to see busloads in here

1703
01:18:10,015 --> 01:18:11,010
from Indiana and Illinois.

1704
01:18:11,012 --> 01:18:12,019
[marchers chanting]

1705
01:18:12,021 --> 01:18:13,021
I think if I were
[inaudible],, I think that that

1706
01:18:13,023 --> 01:18:16,017
would mean something to me.

1707
01:18:16,019 --> 01:18:18,022
To bring people
hundreds of miles

1708
01:18:19,000 --> 01:18:21,021
to just march around town and
listen to a couple speeches

1709
01:18:21,023 --> 01:18:23,013
don't make too much sense to me.

1710
01:18:23,015 --> 01:18:28,003
That although it generated a
lot of enthusiasm and fortified,

1711
01:18:28,005 --> 01:18:32,002
you know, maybe strengthened
people's morale here,

1712
01:18:32,004 --> 01:18:34,010
a lot more could have been
done when they came here.

1713
01:18:34,012 --> 01:18:37,023
That we could have, for example,
marched down to Brookside

1714
01:18:38,001 --> 01:18:39,015
and confronted
Yarborough face to face,

1715
01:18:39,017 --> 01:18:43,000
who was sitting at the
Brookside office during the day.

1716
01:18:43,002 --> 01:18:46,000
Uh, we could have
gone to [inaudible]

1717
01:18:46,002 --> 01:18:48,001
and expropriated
their machine guns.

1718
01:18:48,003 --> 01:18:49,008
And the miners
here, I'm convinced,

1719
01:18:49,010 --> 01:18:51,011
were ready to do
something like that.

1720
01:18:51,013 --> 01:18:54,004
Either that contract's
signed, it's going

1721
01:18:54,006 --> 01:18:55,017
to be better on everybody.

1722
01:18:55,019 --> 01:18:58,009
Let's show Normy Yarborough
he don't run Harlan County.

1723
01:18:58,011 --> 01:19:01,002
Let's show Judge Hoggs he
don't run Harlan County.

1724
01:19:01,004 --> 01:19:03,000
And if you people don't get
out here and help us out,

1725
01:19:03,002 --> 01:19:04,020
we ain't going to get
none of this right.

1726
01:19:04,022 --> 01:19:07,003
Now we want you down
there at five o'clock.

1727
01:19:07,005 --> 01:19:09,014
That's the sunrise revival
at Brookside, Kentucky.

1728
01:19:09,016 --> 01:19:17,022
[men talking]

1729
01:19:18,000 --> 01:19:20,012
They claim to be
rock stars [inaudible]..

1730
01:19:28,012 --> 01:19:30,007
Excuse me.

1731
01:19:30,009 --> 01:19:32,004
Thought you said
we'd already been here.

1732
01:19:32,006 --> 01:19:34,008
Tell him to come
over here a minute.

1733
01:19:38,023 --> 01:19:41,009
We don't know what caused
the shooting or nothing,

1734
01:19:41,011 --> 01:19:44,012
but we can figure it
was just a disagreement.

1735
01:19:44,014 --> 01:19:48,022
Before the mineworkers,
he was shot in the face.

1736
01:19:51,018 --> 01:19:54,012
We helped bring him over here.

1737
01:19:54,014 --> 01:19:55,013
[interposing voices]

1738
01:19:55,015 --> 01:19:56,014
What happened?
What happened?

1739
01:19:56,016 --> 01:19:57,023
He got shot in the damn head.

1740
01:19:58,001 --> 01:19:59,014
[inaudible] got shot in
the face with a shotgun.

1741
01:19:59,016 --> 01:20:00,013
Who shot him?

1742
01:20:00,015 --> 01:20:05,016
A god damn scab, Bill Bruner.

1743
01:20:05,018 --> 01:20:09,006
That's brains laying in the
car of a goddamn fellow when

1744
01:20:09,008 --> 01:20:11,009
he-- he tried to do something.

1745
01:20:11,011 --> 01:20:12,022
That's what a scab
does to a person,

1746
01:20:13,000 --> 01:20:15,002
by god, when
they're not looking.

1747
01:20:16,017 --> 01:20:18,004
See the little shit.

1748
01:20:18,006 --> 01:20:20,001
The piss ant cut off a god damn
man's brain, put another one

1749
01:20:20,003 --> 01:20:21,023
in the hospital dying.

1750
01:20:22,001 --> 01:20:24,016
They been shot all
to hell [inaudible]..

1751
01:20:24,018 --> 01:20:26,003
[inaudible]?

1752
01:20:26,005 --> 01:20:27,022
I'm almost done with it.

1753
01:20:28,000 --> 01:20:28,016
[car door shuts]

1754
01:20:28,018 --> 01:20:30,013
[crickets singing]

1755
01:20:30,015 --> 01:20:34,003
He got dead shot in the
goddamn head [inaudible]..

1756
01:20:36,023 --> 01:20:40,006
Yeah, my son [inaudible] and
that's what he got shot on.

1757
01:20:40,008 --> 01:20:42,000
You got two sons fighting?

1758
01:20:42,002 --> 01:20:43,003
Yeah, yeah.

1759
01:20:43,005 --> 01:20:47,011
My other son, too--
he [inaudible]..

1760
01:20:47,013 --> 01:20:48,020
[hospital announcer paging]

1761
01:20:48,022 --> 01:20:51,008
How long have
you been married?

1762
01:20:51,010 --> 01:20:53,016
Almost a year.

1763
01:20:53,018 --> 01:20:54,017
How old are you?

1764
01:20:54,019 --> 01:20:56,006
16.

1765
01:20:56,008 --> 01:20:58,006
Do you have any children?

1766
01:20:58,008 --> 01:20:59,004
One.

1767
01:20:59,006 --> 01:21:01,014
Are you proud of your husband?

1768
01:21:01,016 --> 01:21:03,008
Yeah.

1769
01:21:03,010 --> 01:21:08,005
What made him decide
to go on a picket line?

1770
01:21:08,007 --> 01:21:11,003
Well, the union, I guess.

1771
01:21:11,005 --> 01:21:12,012
Yeah, he's a union man.

1772
01:21:12,014 --> 01:21:13,022
That's why.

1773
01:21:14,000 --> 01:21:15,019
I want my kids all to be union.

1774
01:21:15,021 --> 01:21:19,015
I don't want them to
be a yellowback scab.

1775
01:21:19,017 --> 01:21:20,023
I don't want them
to be kicked around

1776
01:21:21,001 --> 01:21:23,015
like we was when we was kids.

1777
01:21:23,017 --> 01:21:25,014
And my daddy, he
worked all his life

1778
01:21:25,016 --> 01:21:28,016
and didn't get a
thing before he died.

1779
01:21:28,018 --> 01:21:30,005
Worked all of his
life in the coal mine,

1780
01:21:30,007 --> 01:21:33,011
and we never did see him either.

1781
01:21:33,013 --> 01:21:35,000
We'd just sleep in the bed.

1782
01:21:35,002 --> 01:21:37,001
Mommy'd give us what we had
to eat, and we'd go to bed.

1783
01:21:37,003 --> 01:21:38,011
And he'd eat when
he'd come, and he'd

1784
01:21:38,013 --> 01:21:40,018
be gone when we got out of bed.

1785
01:21:40,020 --> 01:21:43,021
Then whenever he got too
old to work in the mine,

1786
01:21:43,023 --> 01:21:45,000
they just kicked him out to die.

1787
01:21:45,002 --> 01:21:46,013
They didn't care.

1788
01:21:46,015 --> 01:21:48,017
Because there wasn't
no union then.

1789
01:21:50,021 --> 01:21:53,003
And I don't want my
kid to be like that.

1790
01:21:53,005 --> 01:21:54,023
I want my kids to stick
up for their rights

1791
01:21:55,001 --> 01:21:58,004
and be a union man.

1792
01:21:58,006 --> 01:22:00,023
Well, the next time somebody
gets up in our meeting

1793
01:22:01,001 --> 01:22:02,015
and says, let's
have non-violence,

1794
01:22:02,017 --> 01:22:05,017
and well, don't bother them,
let's shoot their god damn ass.

1795
01:22:05,019 --> 01:22:08,006
The women get up there
and they park their car

1796
01:22:08,008 --> 01:22:10,009
across the road and they get up
there and say what they think,

1797
01:22:10,011 --> 01:22:12,003
and we hide behind
the goddamn car.

1798
01:22:12,005 --> 01:22:13,012
Don't you know [inaudible].

1799
01:22:13,014 --> 01:22:14,015
I'll be honest with you.

1800
01:22:14,017 --> 01:22:16,003
I done got enough
goddamn shotguns

1801
01:22:16,005 --> 01:22:17,012
pushed in my goddamn face.

1802
01:22:17,014 --> 01:22:18,010
Non-violence?

1803
01:22:18,012 --> 01:22:20,000
We don't have no violence.

1804
01:22:20,002 --> 01:22:22,014
And we stand back there, and
we don't say a goddamn thing.

1805
01:22:22,016 --> 01:22:24,005
We don't even do nothing.

1806
01:22:24,007 --> 01:22:27,016
Most of you were real close
friends with Lawrence Jones.

1807
01:22:27,018 --> 01:22:33,010
He left a 16-year-old wife
and a five-month-old daughter.

1808
01:22:33,012 --> 01:22:36,005
But I think at this time
that we should at least

1809
01:22:36,007 --> 01:22:39,001
wait till the morning before--

1810
01:22:39,003 --> 01:22:41,008
and not let things
get out of hand.

1811
01:22:41,010 --> 01:22:44,010
I've just talked to Chip
Novalski and Rick Banks,

1812
01:22:44,012 --> 01:22:48,001
and they've asked me to tell you
that the company and the union

1813
01:22:48,003 --> 01:22:51,002
is talking, and
that they're close.

1814
01:22:51,004 --> 01:22:54,012
It looks to me like the best
part is to be to try to get

1815
01:22:54,014 --> 01:22:56,017
[inaudible] Basil Collins.

1816
01:22:56,019 --> 01:22:57,012
Amen!

1817
01:22:57,014 --> 01:22:58,007
Now that--

1818
01:22:58,009 --> 01:22:59,005
[applause]

1819
01:22:59,007 --> 01:23:00,013
--them's the leaders, boys.

1820
01:23:00,015 --> 01:23:03,008
Them's the leaders,
and they-- if some way

1821
01:23:03,010 --> 01:23:04,017
that they can be got.

1822
01:23:04,019 --> 01:23:07,003
They's plenty of big
trees down there,

1823
01:23:07,005 --> 01:23:09,010
and they's plenty of
high-powered rifles.

1824
01:23:09,012 --> 01:23:11,012
I went at 'em back in the '30s.

1825
01:23:11,014 --> 01:23:13,009
I know just exactly.

1826
01:23:13,011 --> 01:23:14,018
I've seen them buddy.

1827
01:23:14,020 --> 01:23:16,011
I've seen them carrying
and putting [inaudible]..

1828
01:23:16,013 --> 01:23:18,018
And now I see the man get
right out in the open.

1829
01:23:18,020 --> 01:23:21,023
So I tell everybody-- take
the shelter if you can,

1830
01:23:22,001 --> 01:23:23,019
and lay the lead to 'em.

1831
01:23:23,021 --> 01:23:24,016
Amen, brother.

1832
01:23:24,018 --> 01:23:29,004
[applause]

1833
01:23:29,006 --> 01:23:33,010
The contract is what
we are fighting for.

1834
01:23:33,012 --> 01:23:39,019
That's what Lawrence Jones
died for, to get a contract.

1835
01:23:39,021 --> 01:23:42,003
But I told his family--

1836
01:23:42,005 --> 01:23:44,007
I said, it was for a good cause.

1837
01:23:46,022 --> 01:23:50,000
And what I said,
why couldn't it be

1838
01:23:50,002 --> 01:23:54,016
somebody like me, some old
man just about spent anyhow?

1839
01:23:54,018 --> 01:23:58,010
But it took a young
man's life to bring

1840
01:23:58,012 --> 01:24:03,016
this thing, the government and
the union and the operators

1841
01:24:03,018 --> 01:24:05,020
together.

1842
01:24:05,022 --> 01:24:07,010
If his shooting
hadn't a-happened,

1843
01:24:07,012 --> 01:24:10,004
probably this contract--
they wouldn't,

1844
01:24:10,006 --> 01:24:13,006
probably might not
have been a meeting

1845
01:24:13,008 --> 01:24:15,023
to negotiate a contract.

1846
01:24:16,001 --> 01:24:21,011
But every contract that
we've ever got has been hard.

1847
01:24:21,013 --> 01:24:24,010
We have to fight for it.

1848
01:24:24,012 --> 01:24:30,020
I've been all around the blood
shed back down in the '30s.

1849
01:24:30,022 --> 01:24:38,013
Blood all around me, where a
man died right around my feet

1850
01:24:38,015 --> 01:24:40,023
for a contract.

1851
01:24:41,001 --> 01:24:45,002
And I think if we ever
did hold our peace,

1852
01:24:45,004 --> 01:24:47,017
let's try to hold it tonight.

1853
01:24:47,019 --> 01:24:50,004
The price has been paid for it.

1854
01:24:50,006 --> 01:24:51,004
[men singing hymn]

1855
01:24:51,006 --> 01:25:00,018
Leave behind, yes, leave behind.

1856
01:25:00,020 --> 01:25:05,012
What will I leave behind?

1857
01:25:08,011 --> 01:25:17,018
After I leave, for
worlds not known,

1858
01:25:17,020 --> 01:25:23,022
what will I leave behind?

1859
01:25:24,000 --> 01:25:24,017
[piano music]

1860
01:25:24,019 --> 01:25:33,005
[crying] Oh god.

1861
01:25:38,007 --> 01:25:40,009
No, no, no!

1862
01:25:44,007 --> 01:25:46,004
Oh, no, no.

1863
01:25:46,006 --> 01:25:48,008
[inaudible]

1864
01:25:55,014 --> 01:25:59,013
Oh, god, I [inaudible].

1865
01:25:59,015 --> 01:26:10,001
[sobbing]

1866
01:26:15,021 --> 01:26:18,007
Reckon it needs to come on
up the river just a little bit,

1867
01:26:18,009 --> 01:26:19,008
don't it?

1868
01:26:19,010 --> 01:26:24,005
[side conversations]

1869
01:26:24,007 --> 01:26:34,017
[shovel scraping]

1870
01:26:35,021 --> 01:26:37,022
When you believe in
something strong enough

1871
01:26:38,000 --> 01:26:41,005
that you're ready to die for
it, that's when you get it.

1872
01:26:41,007 --> 01:26:44,007
Because that's what
happened to Lawrence Jones.

1873
01:26:44,009 --> 01:26:47,019
He believed in it so strong,
and he was ready to die for it,

1874
01:26:47,021 --> 01:26:48,022
and he did.

1875
01:26:49,000 --> 01:26:50,012
But it could have been me.

1876
01:26:50,014 --> 01:26:51,019
It could have been
anybody that was

1877
01:26:51,021 --> 01:26:54,015
out there on the picket line.

1878
01:26:54,017 --> 01:26:58,022
I feel like that this is just
a little pebble on the beach,

1879
01:26:59,000 --> 01:27:00,019
because we've got
a lot of organizing

1880
01:27:00,021 --> 01:27:02,008
to do in Harlan County.

1881
01:27:02,010 --> 01:27:08,004
Because Harlan County
will be UMWA coal.

1882
01:27:08,006 --> 01:27:14,006
I guess that I'd have to say
that as much as we fought down

1883
01:27:14,008 --> 01:27:17,017
here and as hard as we
fought, I don't think it was

1884
01:27:17,019 --> 01:27:20,002
for that young boy,
Lawrence Jones,

1885
01:27:20,004 --> 01:27:24,014
I doubt if we would have got
a contract as fast as we did.

1886
01:27:24,016 --> 01:27:26,012
I'd like to ask
that we pass a motion

1887
01:27:26,014 --> 01:27:28,016
that we accept this contract.

1888
01:27:31,018 --> 01:27:32,012
Somebody--

1889
01:27:32,014 --> 01:27:33,013
I'll make it.

1890
01:27:33,015 --> 01:27:35,003
--make-- somebody
make the motion.

1891
01:27:35,005 --> 01:27:35,022
I'll make the motion.

1892
01:27:36,001 --> 01:27:37,007
I'll second it.

1893
01:27:37,009 --> 01:27:41,022
All Brookside miners
stand for a count then.

1894
01:27:42,000 --> 01:27:43,006
All right.

1895
01:27:43,008 --> 01:27:44,020
Allow 'em to sit
down, [inaudible]..

1896
01:27:44,022 --> 01:27:45,014
Sit down.

1897
01:27:45,016 --> 01:27:46,017
Everybody sit down.

1898
01:27:46,019 --> 01:27:48,020
The ayes have
it and so ordered.

1899
01:27:48,022 --> 01:27:50,000
The ayes have it.

1900
01:27:50,002 --> 01:27:50,022
And it is so ordered.

1901
01:27:51,000 --> 01:27:52,009
The contract's accepted.

1902
01:27:52,011 --> 01:27:54,013
The contract's accepted.

1903
01:27:56,009 --> 01:27:59,015
The only thing I hate about
this is on account of that boy

1904
01:27:59,017 --> 01:28:00,021
getting killed, you know.

1905
01:28:00,023 --> 01:28:01,023
And it all had to come--

1906
01:28:02,001 --> 01:28:02,019
of course--

1907
01:28:02,021 --> 01:28:03,013
It's a sad [inaudible].

1908
01:28:03,015 --> 01:28:05,000
--expected that.

1909
01:28:05,002 --> 01:28:07,011
I really expected more, you
know, than that to happen

1910
01:28:07,013 --> 01:28:09,019
and it probably would have
if it had gone on, you know,

1911
01:28:09,021 --> 01:28:11,003
this week and this week.

1912
01:28:11,005 --> 01:28:12,002
That's right.

1913
01:28:12,004 --> 01:28:15,000
We all knew that it was coming.

1914
01:28:15,002 --> 01:28:18,020
But we didn't know who or when.

1915
01:28:18,022 --> 01:28:21,017
Do you feel you've been
changed by this strike?

1916
01:28:21,019 --> 01:28:22,012
Oh, yes.

1917
01:28:22,014 --> 01:28:24,007
How so?

1918
01:28:24,009 --> 01:28:25,022
Many different ways.

1919
01:28:26,000 --> 01:28:29,002
I can look for a future now.

1920
01:28:29,004 --> 01:28:31,021
[laughing]

1921
01:28:31,023 --> 01:28:34,006
I feel good about it.

1922
01:28:34,008 --> 01:28:36,007
It's just great, marvelous.

1923
01:28:36,009 --> 01:28:38,022
After 13 months, waiting
to see, you know, him

1924
01:28:39,000 --> 01:28:39,022
go back to work.

1925
01:28:40,000 --> 01:28:42,013
Boy, it's been a long time.

1926
01:28:42,015 --> 01:28:45,013
I always said I wouldn't
go up there, but I did.

1927
01:28:45,015 --> 01:28:46,008
I did.

1928
01:28:46,010 --> 01:28:47,011
I said I wouldn't go.

1929
01:28:47,013 --> 01:28:49,000
But when I seen
him go, his fight's

1930
01:28:49,002 --> 01:28:53,006
my fight, so I want to stand
beside of him, fight, too.

1931
01:28:53,008 --> 01:28:56,005
If this had just been
a Harlan County strike,

1932
01:28:56,007 --> 01:28:58,012
and there hadn't been
publicity, if there hadn't been

1933
01:28:58,014 --> 01:28:59,023
a fight against
their rate increase,

1934
01:29:00,001 --> 01:29:01,016
there hadn't been a fight
against their stock,

1935
01:29:01,018 --> 01:29:04,015
Duke Power wouldn't have given
a damn about any of the pressure

1936
01:29:04,017 --> 01:29:05,017
down here.

1937
01:29:05,019 --> 01:29:07,007
Because all we had
was their coal.

1938
01:29:07,009 --> 01:29:10,019
We never had shut off enough of
that to hurt their stockpiles

1939
01:29:10,021 --> 01:29:11,020
up until the end.

1940
01:29:11,022 --> 01:29:13,012
And the same thing
with Lawrence.

1941
01:29:13,014 --> 01:29:15,012
They never would have cared if
Lawrence Jones died in Harlan.

1942
01:29:15,014 --> 01:29:18,009
There would have been a two inch
paragraph from the Harlan Daily

1943
01:29:18,011 --> 01:29:20,012
Enterprise, and
Carl Horn wouldn't

1944
01:29:20,014 --> 01:29:22,016
have given a god damn about it.

1945
01:29:22,018 --> 01:29:25,016
And so I don't think a strike
is won by any one thing.

1946
01:29:25,018 --> 01:29:28,017
It was won by a lot
of different people

1947
01:29:28,019 --> 01:29:31,001
in a lot of different
ways, fighting together

1948
01:29:31,003 --> 01:29:32,022
and playing different roles.

1949
01:29:33,000 --> 01:29:33,019
[crowd chatter]

1950
01:29:33,021 --> 01:29:34,014
Victory!

1951
01:29:34,016 --> 01:29:36,010
Harlan County!

1952
01:29:36,012 --> 01:29:37,023
The other thing
we're trying to do

1953
01:29:38,001 --> 01:29:41,000
is investigate how the fix
was put in here in Harlan.

1954
01:29:41,002 --> 01:29:42,009
What fix?

1955
01:29:42,011 --> 01:29:44,013
Well, it's pretty clear
that when a man commits murder

1956
01:29:44,015 --> 01:29:47,023
and the state police
charges him and witnesses

1957
01:29:48,001 --> 01:29:51,004
say that he fired on
the man unprovoked,

1958
01:29:51,006 --> 01:29:54,004
that a grand jury is
duty bound to indict him.

1959
01:29:54,006 --> 01:29:56,005
But this grand jury
was Harlan County.

1960
01:29:56,007 --> 01:29:57,018
And it seemed like,
despite the fact

1961
01:29:57,020 --> 01:30:00,004
we had won a contract, not
that much had changed here.

1962
01:30:00,006 --> 01:30:01,021
It was just like
in the old days.

1963
01:30:01,023 --> 01:30:05,021
If a company kills a man,
the company gets laid off.

1964
01:30:05,023 --> 01:30:08,011
If one of our people
had shot any company

1965
01:30:08,013 --> 01:30:12,002
man throughout this strike,
he'd be serving 25 years now.

1966
01:30:12,004 --> 01:30:15,014
Bill Bruner is scot-free.

1967
01:30:15,016 --> 01:30:19,008
Once a concession is
won, and once a strike

1968
01:30:19,010 --> 01:30:21,011
is won, that the
workers have to move

1969
01:30:21,013 --> 01:30:23,012
right on to the next struggle.

1970
01:30:23,014 --> 01:30:26,013
And if they don't, the
concession that was won,

1971
01:30:26,015 --> 01:30:28,003
you gonna lose it.

1972
01:30:28,005 --> 01:30:32,006
Well, there's two types of ways
to win strikes and concessions.

1973
01:30:32,008 --> 01:30:36,015
And the first type is where
the workers fight and struggle

1974
01:30:36,017 --> 01:30:41,014
and force the concessions out
of the mine owners or factory

1975
01:30:41,016 --> 01:30:43,006
owners, what have you.

1976
01:30:43,008 --> 01:30:47,006
And these strikes are strikes
that are won from below.

1977
01:30:47,008 --> 01:30:48,021
The other type of
strike, the strikes

1978
01:30:48,023 --> 01:30:51,017
are given to you from above.

1979
01:30:51,019 --> 01:30:53,007
Whenever anybody
gives you something,

1980
01:30:53,009 --> 01:30:54,016
they don't give you
nothing for nothing.

1981
01:30:54,018 --> 01:30:56,020
To get something
and be given it,

1982
01:30:56,022 --> 01:30:58,020
you're going to have
to give up something.

1983
01:30:58,022 --> 01:31:02,020
[machinery noise]

1984
01:31:31,006 --> 01:31:33,021
The BCO member
companies ought to be

1985
01:31:33,023 --> 01:31:37,007
expected to provide
substantially higher

1986
01:31:37,009 --> 01:31:40,006
levels of wages and benefits.

1987
01:31:40,008 --> 01:31:43,015
It is essential-- be necessary
for the bargaining parties

1988
01:31:43,017 --> 01:31:47,018
to give serious consideration to
contract provisions which will

1989
01:31:47,020 --> 01:31:49,023
contribute significantly
to increased

1990
01:31:50,001 --> 01:31:51,017
production and productivity.

1991
01:31:51,019 --> 01:31:53,006
The membership of
our union no longer

1992
01:31:53,008 --> 01:31:56,008
was willing to accept $2
more a day, and a bar of soap

1993
01:31:56,010 --> 01:31:58,013
and a towel in a bathhouse.

1994
01:31:58,015 --> 01:32:01,009
The areas, the main areas of
concern to our membership,

1995
01:32:01,011 --> 01:32:03,013
has been well-established
and should be recognized

1996
01:32:03,015 --> 01:32:05,005
by everyone in this
country, particularly

1997
01:32:05,007 --> 01:32:07,022
the coal operators-- that
safety is our highest priority.

1998
01:32:08,000 --> 01:32:11,004
The men's asking for
more than they did before.

1999
01:32:11,006 --> 01:32:13,014
And they're going to get it.

2000
01:32:13,016 --> 01:32:16,004
They either get it, or
there won't be no coal.

2001
01:32:16,006 --> 01:32:19,001
This strike?

2002
01:32:19,003 --> 01:32:20,023
They've been looking
forward to this.

2003
01:32:21,001 --> 01:32:22,022
This is a big thing
for the miner,

2004
01:32:23,000 --> 01:32:26,003
that he will better
his lot after today.

2005
01:32:26,005 --> 01:32:29,004
Because when Miller
took office, he

2006
01:32:29,006 --> 01:32:31,009
said that he was
going to get the miner

2007
01:32:31,011 --> 01:32:33,006
what he was entitled to.

2008
01:32:33,008 --> 01:32:35,014
OK, this is flat track.

2009
01:32:35,016 --> 01:32:40,012
[metal clanking and squeaking]

2010
01:32:40,014 --> 01:32:42,016
[inaudible]!

2011
01:32:44,006 --> 01:32:46,020
[inaudible] starting
now from the work area,

2012
01:32:46,022 --> 01:32:49,011
and they're coming to
what we call the manway.

2013
01:32:49,013 --> 01:32:51,000
They'll be coming
up [inaudible] cage,

2014
01:32:51,002 --> 01:32:55,023
in another 32 minutes they'll
all be out, god willing.

2015
01:33:00,002 --> 01:33:02,023
Well, I think that the
ratification's great, if we

2016
01:33:03,001 --> 01:33:04,014
have something to say about it.

2017
01:33:04,016 --> 01:33:05,020
[showers running]

2018
01:33:05,022 --> 01:33:09,019
[inaudible] retirement,
we want vacations.

2019
01:33:09,021 --> 01:33:10,013
Yeah--

2020
01:33:10,015 --> 01:33:11,007
Fuck.

2021
01:33:11,009 --> 01:33:12,019
--better vacation.

2022
01:33:12,021 --> 01:33:14,002
Sick pay.

2023
01:33:14,004 --> 01:33:15,020
It'll never be ratified
the first time if it's not

2024
01:33:15,022 --> 01:33:18,022
at least a $15 a day increase.

2025
01:33:19,000 --> 01:33:20,020
You've been
through this before?

2026
01:33:20,022 --> 01:33:21,017
Many a time.

2027
01:33:21,019 --> 01:33:23,009
Six months one [inaudible].

2028
01:33:23,011 --> 01:33:25,013
Are you afraid of
going out on strike?

2029
01:33:25,015 --> 01:33:26,019
No, I'm not afraid.

2030
01:33:26,021 --> 01:33:30,011
I don't want to see
no strike, definitely.

2031
01:33:30,013 --> 01:33:32,020
No miner wants a strike
with no contract, no work.

2032
01:33:32,022 --> 01:33:37,012
And if it's not a good
one, we get to ratify.

2033
01:33:37,014 --> 01:33:39,010
It would never have gone
the way it has if we'd

2034
01:33:39,012 --> 01:33:40,021
have been able to vote before.

2035
01:33:40,023 --> 01:33:42,023
Just like Boyle.

2036
01:33:43,001 --> 01:33:44,004
We didn't vote.

2037
01:33:44,006 --> 01:33:45,016
He says, oh, this is
what they'll take.

2038
01:33:45,018 --> 01:33:47,016
That's what we had to take,
was what they give us.

2039
01:33:47,018 --> 01:33:51,003
Now we're going to
take what we want.

2040
01:33:51,005 --> 01:33:53,007
See you later.

2041
01:33:57,017 --> 01:34:00,018
Even those who criticize
it, acknowledge it is probably

2042
01:34:00,020 --> 01:34:04,013
the best agreement that's
been made in any industry

2043
01:34:04,015 --> 01:34:06,005
in modern times.

2044
01:34:06,007 --> 01:34:07,020
Mr. Miller, do you
expect to recommend

2045
01:34:07,022 --> 01:34:09,017
ratification of this
contract to the membership?

2046
01:34:09,019 --> 01:34:11,023
I will recommend
ratification of this contract

2047
01:34:12,001 --> 01:34:13,003
to the membership.

2048
01:34:13,005 --> 01:34:14,012
Sir?

2049
01:34:14,014 --> 01:34:16,001
Will you have a right to
strike at the local level.

2050
01:34:16,003 --> 01:34:17,007
No.

2051
01:34:17,009 --> 01:34:18,013
Do you anticipate
that will cause

2052
01:34:18,015 --> 01:34:19,020
you any trouble
in ratifications,

2053
01:34:19,022 --> 01:34:21,004
since that's one of the things--

2054
01:34:21,006 --> 01:34:22,021
No, I'm sure there
are some divergent views

2055
01:34:22,023 --> 01:34:24,015
among the membership,
and I never

2056
01:34:24,017 --> 01:34:26,005
expected 100% ratification.

2057
01:34:26,007 --> 01:34:27,020
But I'm confident the
membership will ratify.

2058
01:34:27,022 --> 01:34:29,021
You can't take the right
to strike away from miners.

2059
01:34:29,023 --> 01:34:32,005
If you go through the
proper grievance procedure,

2060
01:34:32,007 --> 01:34:35,021
and it doesn't work, you have
only got one right left--

2061
01:34:35,023 --> 01:34:37,008
the right to strike.

2062
01:34:37,010 --> 01:34:42,016
And if you take that away
from a man, you've had him.

2063
01:34:42,018 --> 01:34:43,015
It's not in the agreement?

2064
01:34:43,017 --> 01:34:45,001
But it's not ruled out yet.

2065
01:34:45,003 --> 01:34:46,019
Well, I'd like to have it.

2066
01:34:46,021 --> 01:34:48,011
Well, I can't speak
for everyone--

2067
01:34:48,013 --> 01:34:51,003
Well, let me step out here and
talk to you privately about it.

2068
01:34:51,005 --> 01:34:51,023
Yeah.

2069
01:34:52,001 --> 01:34:54,005
I don't want-- that's 35.

2070
01:34:54,007 --> 01:34:58,008
[inaudible]

2071
01:34:58,010 --> 01:34:59,021
The international
has gone and changed

2072
01:34:59,023 --> 01:35:02,000
the whole ratification
process without giving

2073
01:35:02,002 --> 01:35:03,004
any reason for it.

2074
01:35:03,006 --> 01:35:04,015
But they're trying
to keep us apart.

2075
01:35:04,017 --> 01:35:06,007
He could be getting pressure
from the government.

2076
01:35:06,009 --> 01:35:08,006
He could be getting
pressure from the companies.

2077
01:35:08,008 --> 01:35:09,005
It's hard to say.

2078
01:35:09,007 --> 01:35:10,003
We don't know.

2079
01:35:10,005 --> 01:35:11,010
That's what the problem is.

2080
01:35:11,012 --> 01:35:12,016
We don't know, and
we're not being told.

2081
01:35:12,018 --> 01:35:13,021
Everybody was
under the impression,

2082
01:35:13,023 --> 01:35:15,005
I think, when
Miller was elected,

2083
01:35:15,007 --> 01:35:16,012
that he was the man for the job.

2084
01:35:16,014 --> 01:35:17,021
- That's right, yes.
- I mean, everybody--

2085
01:35:17,023 --> 01:35:18,019
- That's the way he acted.
- Everybody--

2086
01:35:18,021 --> 01:35:19,015
He act like he was.

2087
01:35:19,017 --> 01:35:21,004
He's an honest man.

2088
01:35:21,006 --> 01:35:22,016
But he's no match for them bunch
of clowns in the other cars.

2089
01:35:22,018 --> 01:35:24,004
That is their job.

2090
01:35:24,006 --> 01:35:25,007
He's honest.

2091
01:35:25,009 --> 01:35:26,013
He got bagged.
[interposing voices]

2092
01:35:26,015 --> 01:35:27,015
Coal companies
don't need to tell you

2093
01:35:27,017 --> 01:35:29,004
they can't afford us, either.

2094
01:35:29,006 --> 01:35:30,021
Because they're owned by the
oil companies and the power

2095
01:35:30,023 --> 01:35:32,023
companies and who has more money
in the world than those people?

2096
01:35:33,001 --> 01:35:34,003
So they go afford everything.

2097
01:35:34,005 --> 01:35:35,012
I'll tell you what.

2098
01:35:35,014 --> 01:35:37,015
I'll tell you what.

2099
01:35:37,017 --> 01:35:38,017
The company kept the apple.

2100
01:35:38,019 --> 01:35:40,017
It throwed us the core!

2101
01:35:40,019 --> 01:35:43,013
[cheering]

2102
01:35:43,015 --> 01:35:45,013
You look at these
coal companies.

2103
01:35:45,015 --> 01:35:47,020
You look at Consolidated Coal--

2104
01:35:47,022 --> 01:35:50,002
181 goddamn percent profits.

2105
01:35:50,004 --> 01:35:51,013
You look at Piston--

2106
01:35:51,015 --> 01:35:52,021
886.

2107
01:35:52,023 --> 01:35:54,016
And now [inaudible],,
they're giving us a goddamn

2108
01:35:54,018 --> 01:35:56,014
five more days' vacation.

2109
01:35:56,016 --> 01:35:58,018
Burn 'em all!

2110
01:36:02,012 --> 01:36:04,019
[cheering]

2111
01:36:04,021 --> 01:36:05,017
Hey!

2112
01:36:05,019 --> 01:36:07,004
[inaudible] goddamn [inaudible].

2113
01:36:07,006 --> 01:36:09,018
This is unprecedented,
isn't it, Mr. Secretary,

2114
01:36:09,020 --> 01:36:12,002
for a Secretary of the
Treasury to step in like this?

2115
01:36:12,004 --> 01:36:14,010
I don't think it's
unprecedented, no.

2116
01:36:14,012 --> 01:36:18,008
I think this is a very serious
issue in the economic area

2117
01:36:18,010 --> 01:36:19,015
in our country.

2118
01:36:19,017 --> 01:36:22,011
And a prolonged coal
strike would have very

2119
01:36:22,013 --> 01:36:24,003
serious economic implications.

2120
01:36:24,005 --> 01:36:25,022
So as the chief
economic spokesman,

2121
01:36:26,000 --> 01:36:28,011
I consider this my very
deep responsibility

2122
01:36:28,013 --> 01:36:31,005
to attempt to work toward
a resolution of this issue.

2123
01:36:31,007 --> 01:36:32,017
What is your reaction
to the government

2124
01:36:32,019 --> 01:36:34,015
stepping in at this time?

2125
01:36:34,017 --> 01:36:37,014
Well, I hope that we can
resolve the matter ourself.

2126
01:36:37,016 --> 01:36:41,006
That's the way I feel about it.

2127
01:36:41,008 --> 01:36:44,018
Some of this contract
has got some goodies.

2128
01:36:44,020 --> 01:36:47,021
But most of this
contract is against you.

2129
01:36:47,023 --> 01:36:50,014
What contract?

2130
01:36:50,016 --> 01:36:55,007
As far as I can see,
this is no contract at all.

2131
01:36:55,009 --> 01:36:56,023
Take it and read
it and shut up.

2132
01:36:57,001 --> 01:36:58,020
That's what I did
with the last one.

2133
01:36:58,022 --> 01:37:00,023
You worked three
years at Wheeling Steel,

2134
01:37:01,001 --> 01:37:02,012
you can get 13 weeks.

2135
01:37:02,014 --> 01:37:04,016
Well, you're not
working at Wheeling Steel.

2136
01:37:04,018 --> 01:37:07,005
No, but by god, I ain't
working in a hole all the time.

2137
01:37:07,007 --> 01:37:09,005
I work down in the
hole, too, and I deserve

2138
01:37:09,007 --> 01:37:10,011
just as much as he gets.

2139
01:37:10,013 --> 01:37:11,014
That's right.

2140
01:37:11,016 --> 01:37:12,016
What about your
high cost of living?

2141
01:37:12,018 --> 01:37:14,010
What about your sick leave?

2142
01:37:14,012 --> 01:37:17,004
Five goddamn days.

2143
01:37:17,006 --> 01:37:19,003
Have you been off sick?

2144
01:37:19,005 --> 01:37:20,019
I can't afford to get sick.

2145
01:37:20,021 --> 01:37:22,021
I have to spend all my
money going to the doctor,

2146
01:37:22,023 --> 01:37:24,012
getting doctor's slips.

2147
01:37:24,014 --> 01:37:27,002
They got the cost of living
index set up for people

2148
01:37:27,004 --> 01:37:28,015
making $2 and $3 an hour.

2149
01:37:28,017 --> 01:37:31,018
Where we should be on a
0.3, or 0.25 instead of 0.4.

2150
01:37:31,020 --> 01:37:32,014
That's right.

2151
01:37:32,016 --> 01:37:33,015
It's a joke.

2152
01:37:33,017 --> 01:37:37,013
[side conversations]

2153
01:37:37,015 --> 01:37:40,002
Yeah, just keep [inaudible].

2154
01:37:40,004 --> 01:37:41,014
[paper rustling]

2155
01:37:41,016 --> 01:37:43,022
Yes, yes.

2156
01:37:44,000 --> 01:37:47,003
Uh oh, a lot of yeses,
boy, I'm telling you.

2157
01:37:47,005 --> 01:37:49,017
[inaudible] local
number [inaudible]..

2158
01:37:49,019 --> 01:37:51,003
105.

2159
01:37:51,005 --> 01:37:52,003
106.

2160
01:37:52,005 --> 01:37:53,021
107.

2161
01:37:53,023 --> 01:37:56,012
The 1974 Bituminous
Coal Wage Agreement

2162
01:37:56,014 --> 01:37:57,018
has been ratified
by the membership

2163
01:37:57,020 --> 01:38:00,008
of the United Mine Workers.

2164
01:38:00,010 --> 01:38:07,022
The figures for those
voting for is 44,754.

2165
01:38:08,000 --> 01:38:12,001
And 34,741 voting against.

2166
01:38:12,003 --> 01:38:14,006
I think that we
have a great contract.

2167
01:38:14,008 --> 01:38:18,008
I think our people will
adapt theirselves to it.

2168
01:38:18,010 --> 01:38:22,002
They will be more familiar with
it as they work along with it.

2169
01:38:22,004 --> 01:38:25,016
And it's my hope
that we can now get on

2170
01:38:25,018 --> 01:38:28,005
with the job of
running this union

2171
01:38:28,007 --> 01:38:31,001
and doing the kind
of organizing job

2172
01:38:31,003 --> 01:38:33,001
that will make the United
Mine Workers number

2173
01:38:33,003 --> 01:38:35,005
one in the country again.

2174
01:38:38,008 --> 01:38:42,004
I'm directing the membership
of our United Mine Workers

2175
01:38:42,006 --> 01:38:45,003
organization back to work.

2176
01:38:45,005 --> 01:38:46,011
I'm glad to get back.

2177
01:38:46,013 --> 01:38:48,016
Feel you got a good contract?

2178
01:38:48,018 --> 01:38:52,001
Aw, oh, I feel
mine's all right.

2179
01:38:52,003 --> 01:38:52,021
I got a good raise.

2180
01:38:52,023 --> 01:38:54,005
I'm happy about it.

2181
01:38:54,007 --> 01:38:55,014
I'm not too worried.

2182
01:38:55,016 --> 01:38:56,021
Good morning.

2183
01:38:56,023 --> 01:38:58,012
How do you feel about
going back to work?

2184
01:38:58,014 --> 01:39:01,010
Well, going to work, I don't
feel like working any time.

2185
01:39:01,012 --> 01:39:02,013
But I have to go.

2186
01:39:02,015 --> 01:39:04,023
Do you feel you
got a good contract?

2187
01:39:05,001 --> 01:39:08,016
Well, not for us old timers,
we don't have a good contract.

2188
01:39:08,018 --> 01:39:09,022
Why not?

2189
01:39:10,000 --> 01:39:11,018
Well, we ain't going
to get too much benefit.

2190
01:39:11,020 --> 01:39:15,018
You take three years ago the
coal miners are supposed to be

2191
01:39:15,020 --> 01:39:17,023
getting $50 a day, [inaudible].

2192
01:39:18,001 --> 01:39:21,016
And within six
years, 1976, I still

2193
01:39:21,018 --> 01:39:24,022
won't be getting $50 a day
with these new rates in there.

2194
01:39:25,001 --> 01:39:27,009
And the papers had to
be forged three years

2195
01:39:27,011 --> 01:39:31,000
ago that they'd start up $50.

2196
01:39:31,002 --> 01:39:33,002
But now that it's
after six years,

2197
01:39:33,004 --> 01:39:34,022
I still won't be making $50.

2198
01:39:35,000 --> 01:39:37,009
When are you going
to be able to retire?

2199
01:39:37,011 --> 01:39:39,012
Well, I've maybe old
enough to retire now.

2200
01:39:39,014 --> 01:39:43,022
But I couldn't live
off $150 a month.

2201
01:39:44,000 --> 01:39:46,016
So, I gotta go to work.

2202
01:39:46,018 --> 01:39:47,016
Hey, have a safe day.

2203
01:39:47,018 --> 01:39:49,020
Well, I'm going to try.

2204
01:40:02,008 --> 01:40:05,017
It was a fight before
and it's still a fight.

2205
01:40:05,019 --> 01:40:09,011
Fight before we had the
union and still fighting.

2206
01:40:09,013 --> 01:40:10,018
And they're going keep fighting.

2207
01:40:10,020 --> 01:40:12,020
The coal miner will
always be fighting.

2208
01:40:12,022 --> 01:40:19,019
[MUSIC - HAZEL DICKENS, "THEY'LL
NEVER KEEP US DOWN"]

2209
01:40:19,021 --> 01:40:22,021
United we stand,
divided we fall.

2210
01:40:22,023 --> 01:40:27,010
For every dime they give
us, a battle must be fought.

2211
01:40:27,012 --> 01:40:30,023
So working people, use your
power, the key to liberty.

2212
01:40:31,001 --> 01:40:35,007
Don't support that rich
man's style of luxury.

2213
01:40:35,009 --> 01:40:39,019
There ain't no way they can
ever keep us down, oh no.

2214
01:40:39,021 --> 01:40:43,018
Ain't no way they can
ever keep us down.

2215
01:40:43,020 --> 01:40:46,009
We won't be bought,
we won't be sold.

2216
01:40:46,011 --> 01:40:48,013
To be treated right,
well, that's our goal.

2217
01:40:48,015 --> 01:40:51,016
And there ain't no way
they can ever keep us down.

2218
01:40:51,018 --> 01:40:53,022
But you have
got them going now

2219
01:40:54,000 --> 01:40:55,021
and you've got to
keep them going.

2220
01:40:55,023 --> 01:40:59,001
If you don't, God bless
America, you're down.

2221
01:40:59,003 --> 01:40:59,021
[crowd chanting]

2222
01:40:59,023 --> 01:41:03,021
[inaudible]

2223
01:41:03,023 --> 01:41:05,023
That we get a
grievance procedure that

2224
01:41:06,001 --> 01:41:07,003
has a right to strike in it.

2225
01:41:07,005 --> 01:41:08,016
So that we can
fight the companies

2226
01:41:08,018 --> 01:41:10,003
and win our grievances.

2227
01:41:10,005 --> 01:41:11,013
[MUSIC - HAZEL DICKENS, "THEY'LL
NEVER KEEP US DOWN"]

2228
01:41:11,015 --> 01:41:12,018
We've been shot and
we've been jailed, lord.

2229
01:41:12,020 --> 01:41:14,002
It's a sin.

2230
01:41:14,004 --> 01:41:17,017
Women and little children
stood right by the men.

2231
01:41:17,019 --> 01:41:22,005
But we got that Union contract
that keeps the worker free,

2232
01:41:22,007 --> 01:41:25,023
and they'll never shoot
that union out of me.

2233
01:41:26,001 --> 01:41:30,016
And they'll never shoot
that union out of me, oh no.

2234
01:41:30,018 --> 01:41:34,019
Never shoot that
union out of me.

2235
01:41:34,021 --> 01:41:37,000
Got a contract in
our hands signed

2236
01:41:37,002 --> 01:41:39,004
by the blood of honest men.

2237
01:41:39,006 --> 01:41:43,006
And they'll never shoot
that union out of me.

2238
01:41:43,008 --> 01:41:45,009
[crowd cheering]

2239
01:41:45,011 --> 01:41:48,008
[inaudible] if you get
those junctions lifted,

2240
01:41:48,010 --> 01:41:51,006
you get those junctions
struck, automatically

2241
01:41:51,008 --> 01:41:53,019
you've got the right to strike.

2242
01:41:53,021 --> 01:41:57,006
[cheering]

2243
01:41:57,008 --> 01:41:59,000
[MUSIC - HAZEL DICKENS, "THEY'LL
NEVER KEEP US DOWN"]

2244
01:41:59,002 --> 01:42:03,010
Well, the power wheel is
rolling, rolling right along.

2245
01:42:03,012 --> 01:42:07,009
And the government can keep
it growing, growing strong.

2246
01:42:07,011 --> 01:42:12,009
So working people get your
help from your own kind.

2247
01:42:12,011 --> 01:42:15,020
Your welfare ain't on
the rich man's mind.

2248
01:42:15,022 --> 01:42:19,019
Your welfare ain't on that
rich man's mind, oh no.

2249
01:42:19,021 --> 01:42:23,019
Your welfare ain't on
that rich man's mind.

2250
01:42:23,021 --> 01:42:26,004
They want the power
in their hands

2251
01:42:26,006 --> 01:42:29,005
just to keep down the
worker, and your welfare

2252
01:42:29,007 --> 01:42:32,002
ain't on that rich man's mind.

2253
01:42:32,004 --> 01:42:36,013
And they'll never, never,
never keep us down, oh no.

2254
01:42:36,015 --> 01:42:40,012
Never, never,
never keep us down.

2255
01:42:40,014 --> 01:42:42,022
They can cheat,
lie, frame or steal,

2256
01:42:43,000 --> 01:42:44,023
but we'll stop that big wheel.

2257
01:42:45,001 --> 01:42:48,018
And they'll never, never,
never keep us down.