All language subtitles for MATEWAN.1987.John.Sayles.XviD-FlowKey

(Water dripping)

(Bluesy harmonica play)

(Coughs)

Damn!

(Coughs)

(Whistles)

(Whistle replies)

Shot in the hole

Shot in the hole

Danny! What in god's name are
you doing i got a shot set up

Back there

Word come down from turley

(Indiscernible)

They brung it down to 90 cent a
ton

Damn!

Them dagos are holding fast in
#3

He says take it or leave it

Sephus what we gonna do?

Hit were 19 and 20 in the
southwest field and things were

Tough

The miners was trying to bring
the union to west virginia

The coal operators and their gun
thugs was set on keeping em out

¶(mining song)�

Them was hard days, they paid
you by the ton and they didn't

Care no more for a man that'd
done for a draft mule

Them was hard people, your
coalminer then they wasn't

Nobody you wanted to cross

¶(mining song)�

So push come to shove and pretty
soon we had us a war down there

In mango county

Which in them days was known as
bloody mango

That's where it all come to a
head, there on tug fork

In the town of matewan

We done it mama, we gonna have
the union

(Conductor talking)
(train stopping)

(Indiscernible talking)

What in the hell are we stopping
for?

Step down gentleman this here
will be your new home

How come we ain't getting off in
town?

-Just get in line

(Yelling)

(Train horn blows)

I'm gonna kill him!, kill him!

Get on the train! Get on!

C'mon bill!

Come on! Come on bill!

Gimme your hand man

-Get out of here!

When do we get to matewan?
-You don't want to go there

Mister, ain't nothing but crazy
people

Hi

Hi

Everybody was here, then the got
worried and the gone on up the

Line a ways

Some kind of union bizness

Yeah i saw
-You best steer clear of it

My names bridey mae tolliver

Uh, joe kenehan

Uh, you know

Radner's boarding house?
-Big white house

Right on past the coal dock,
she's a real sourpuss though

Elma radner

Thank you

You gonna be in town long?

It depends

I'll see you around

I hope so

These picks and shovels are to
be considered a loan

From the stone mountain coal
company

They're costs will be deducted
from your first months' pay

Tool sharpener provided by the
company's 25 cents a month

Use of the wash house is 75
cents a month

Medical doctor provided by the
company is 2 dollars a month

Special procedures extra

Your train ride here provided by
the company will be deducted

From your first months' pay

Your pay will be issued as
company script

Redeemable for all goods and
services at the stone mountain

Company store

Purchases of any items available
at the company store from

Outside merchants will result in
firing without pay

What's to keep y'all from
jacking up the prices at your

Store?

Name?

Johnson, they calls me few
clothes

Powder, fuses, lamps, head gear,
all appropriate clothing will be

Available at the company store

And stone mountain will
generously advance you a month's

Supply of these items

Payment to be deducted

I'm going to take you over to
camp now where you'll be living

There is some italian gentleman
that are very eager to meet you

Rentals will be for one room,
250 a month

Company rule, no more than two
people to one room

Children included

Electricity where that is
feasible will be 1 dollar a

Month

Mrs. Radner?

Yes.

My name is joe kennehan

I'm going to be in town for a
bit and your place here was

Recommended

What do you do?

Uh, i guess i'm looking for work

You with the company?

The company?
-If you ain't with the company,

There ain't no work

Look mister don't act a lamb
with me, what's your business

Here
-Mama!

Mama it's hillard the scabs done
it mama off the line a mile they

Was all colored this time, they
bust his nose

You got any ice?

Some in the back
-Fetch me two chunks about this

Big and a piece of rag

You a doctor?
-No, but i seen my share of

Broken noses

Now just put it up in the air
buddy just like your watching

The clouds

We'll get that bleeding stopped

(Indiscernible)

Say what?
-He said he got his licks in

Seems to be all the men around
here care about wives starving

So they can get their licks in

It's just frustration is all

And you can't take care of them
you care about

I know it ain't their fault

Here you go
-This freezes up all them little

Veins inside

It's just so they close up and
they don't let any more blood

Out

You a doctor?

No.

I'm just a guy looking for a
place to stay

5 dollars a week cash

That includes dinner and clean
sheets

Hope i'm not making a mistake

Name is joe kennehan

Mostly i work for the railroads
laying track

Kansas, missouri

I went out west for a bit and
worked in a lumbar camp

A little of whatever pays an
honest dollar

I'm a coalminer at least until
we come out i was had me over in

Section 3 i was a trapper boy

Ain't you a little young?
-I'm almost 15

There are some in there younger
than me

Of course with the strike now i
work mostly on running this

Place

I help a little don't i?

It's gonna be a long one

That superintendent at stone
mountain he said

He'd go broke before he let one
union sumbitch so much as step

Into his coalmines

-Danny
sorry ma'am but that's what he

Said

Daniel is a preacher
-Is that so?

You ought to hear him testify

What church you with?

Well round here there's the
missionary folks they are hard

Shell baptist and then there's
the free will folks which is

Your soft shell baptist

Right now i preach for both

(Knock at door)

Ill get it

Daniel is gonna preach tonight
over at the missionary

I never was religious myself

It's sephus mama

Hello elma

Ms. Knightes

Have a seat
-I come to have a word with your

New boarder

If he don't mind

Excuse me

Claims he's the fella the union
sent us

Can you prove it?

Don't take nothing to have a
card printed up

I guess you'll just have to
trust me

Who wrote the iron hill

Jack london
-Where's joe hillbury dead?

All over the world they
scattered his ashes

Which eye is big bill hayward
missing?

His right one
-How did frank little die?

Bute, montana, they hung him
from a railroad trestle

You know your stuff

I was with the wobbley's
-Me too

Back when it meant something

One big union
-Not around here buddy

C.E. Lively

This is my restaurant, fellas
are waitin'

They don't give a damn whether
we live or die

Just so long as they get the
coal out of the ground

They had us pulling pillars and
the roof was working, you know

Like it does before it's going
to fall down

If i say i ain't dying in here
and walk away

They'll put me down in some damn
puddle in a 2 foot seam

And no air to breathe..A man
can't mine coal that way

They're just pushing us further
than we can go

The check wayman he'll take 50
pound off your load for slate

When there ain't a pebble in it

It's down in the bottom where
they ain't looking for it

Then they raise the prices that
the company store the same god

Damn week that they lower the
tonnage rate

And they still ain't rock dusted
that damn hole

Who am i talking about?
-Jesus

I can't hear you?
-Jesus!

I still can't hear you?
-Jesus!!

Jesus christ our lord do you
know his name?

Hallelujah, say yeah

Have you felt the warming
comfort of his precious love

Praise jesus

Praise his holy name

Parise his blessed spirit

Praise his everlasting love
jesus christ our lord

Listen to me now, listen to me

The prince of darkness

Is upon the lion

Amen

-In the bible his name is
beelzebub

Lord of the flies

Right now on earth today

His name is bolshevick

Socialist!, communist!, union
man

Lord of untruth sower of evil
seed, enemy of all that is good

And pure and this creature

Walks among us

What are we going to do about
it?

First thing we got to have is
all of these niggers and all

These dagos that come in here to
take our jobs thrown out of the

Mines

Mines hell! They got 'em in our
houses, they're setting at our

Tables right now

And they're sleeping in our beds
while we're out living under a

Piece of canvas at the back of
the holler

I been a union man my whole life

I know the story with these coal
operators and their gun thugs

The only thing they understand
is the bad end of a bullet

If we show them, we just assume
blow up their damn mines than

Seen them worked by a bunch of
scabs and then they gonna listen

Someone is coming, it's alex. He
got someone

Where did you find him?

He come right up on the steps

They told me that c.E. Lively is
where the union mens meet

So?

I biznus wit the union

That's so?

What's your name son?

They calls me few clothes
(laughs)

I didn't come here looking for
no trouble

A mans got to eat

-So why don't you go eat, back
where you come from?

They told me that they was jobs
here

Go home nigger
-God damn scab

You watch your mouth peckerwood

I been called nigger and i can't
help that the way white folks is

But i ain't never been called no
scab!

And i ain't fixin to start up
now

I got ton for ton loading coal
with any man here

And when i do, i expects the
same dollar for the same work

You get out of this hollar alive
son you be doin' good for

Yourself

Union men my ass!

You want to be treated like men

You want to be treated fair

You ain't men to that coal
company

Your equipment

Like a shovel, a gondola car

A hunk of wood brace

They'll use you till you wear
out or you break down

Or your buried under a slate
fall and then they'll get a new

One

And they don't care what color
it is or where it comes from

It doesn't matter how much coal
you can load

Or how long your family has
lived on this land

If you stand alone you just so
much sh*t to those people

You think this man is your
enemy?

Huh?

This is a worker

Any union keeps this man out

Ain't a union

It's a god damn club

Now they got you fighting white
against colored

Native against foreign, holler
against holler

When you know there ain't but
two sides to this world

Them that work and them that
don't

You work

They don't

That's all you got to know about
the enemy

You say you got guns

Well i know that you all are
brave men

And i know you could shoot it
out with the company if you had

To

But the coal company don't want
this union

And the state government don't
want it

The federal government don't
want it

And all of them just waiting for
an excuse to come down and crush

Us to nothing

Fellas we're in a hole full of
coal gas here

The tiniest spark at the wrong
time is going to be the end of

Us

So we got to pick away at this
situation slow

And careful

We got to organize and build
support

We got to work together

Together!

Till they can't get their coal
out of the ground without us

Because we're a union

Case we're the workers damn it!
And we take care of each other

How can we shut the mines down
if we don't dynamite them

The men walk out

All of them

Fat chance

And every man that walks out on
his own steam

We take into the union

All the dagos and all the
colored?

That's what a union is fellas

You better get used to it

So this fella owns a vineyard,
goes out first thing one morning

And he hires some workers

Says he'll give 'em a dollar for
the day which was decent wages

In biblical times

Well then he's at the
marketplace and he sees some

Other fellas and he hires them

And some more at noon and some
at 2 and some at 5 and every

Time it's the same deal

A dollar for the day and he's
hiring all day long right up

Till 1 hour before quitting time

Look we're real sorry to barge
in on you like this

But it's come to a point where
we got to talk to you

Now i know you people got it
hard coming to a new country

You don't know the rules

Don't know how things work

You don't know sh*t about mining
coal that's for sure

They been dying like flies in
that #3 hole

But how it is

You don't have a whole lot of
choice in this thing

You know what a union is?

Cindagato
cindagato?

What the situation is

We need every..
-We join the union they shoot us

We no join the union you shoot
us

Well, that's one way of looking
at it

Those dagos are driving me crazy

Now what's he playing?
-Shhhh

Now who's that?

(Harmonica playing)

Peckerwood is gone pass

Union men will be up in a few
minutes

What we talking here for?
-You want to walk back to

Alabama?

The sun goes down and he sends
for his foreman and he says to

Go pay off the workers starting
with the ones he picked up just

An hour ago and to pay everyone
of them the same dollar a day

And of course the fellas that
went out first

Is roped off about this

So they get to agitating,
complaining so loud that the

Owner come up and he says look
it

We dealt for a dollar and that's
what you get

And what i pay anybody else is
none of your look out so there

Now that's all the gospel story
says except for the moral jesus

Drew out of it

And so jesus says

Thus it will be in the kingdom
of heaven the first will be last

And the last will be first

Now it's clear from this parable

That jesus hadn't heard nothin'
about the union

If he was walking the earth
today and seen the situation we

Got with these coal operators
he'd changed his tune

A man deserve an hourly wage
he'd say for those the pit be

Gassy and the face full of
slate, a man still toileth by

The sweat of his brow

And what's a better deal here on
earth, no matter i got in store

For him in the hereafter

Praise jesus!

Kennehan

Out kinda late aren't you?

I met some people and we got to
talking

Talking?

Yeah

Who are you?

Name is sid hatfield

I'm chief of police around here

It ain't against the law to talk
is it?

Depends

I take care of my people

You bring them trouble you're a
dead man

Sleep tight kennehan

Hi

Well, look at this grigsy they
got up a little reception

Committee for us

(Laughs)

What is your name honey?
-Bridey mae tolliver

You like to watch the trains
come and go bridey mae?

Yeah

And the people that come into
town

There been a lot of new people
coming here lately ?

A few

Fella named joe kennehan show
up?

Maybe

Are you married bridey mae?

I was

He got killed in the mine

That's too bad

Did you hear that grigsy he got
killed in the mine

It's a shame

Was your husband a union man
while he was living?

No. He said it wouldn't never
take hold down here

He sounds like a smart fella

I think that you are real pretty
you know that bridey mae

Thank you

Don't you think she's pretty
grigsy?

You are the best looking
mountain trash i've seen in a

Long while

We'll see you around

Let's roll grigsy

The sooner we get out of this
sh*thole the better

I was putting up blackberry's
when tremel blankenship come

Shouting up the hollar that the
#5 had blown

I remember i took the pot off
the stovetop and warshed up my

Hands before i went down

It took two days to dig through

Then when they brung 'em up you
couldn't tell which was which

They found blood on the walls
from fellas trying to claw their

Way out

Mrs. Elkins, mrs. Mounts, bridey
mae

We all lost our men in that fire

Danny was 7 then

Now he's back in that same hole

How did it start?

Coal dust gets hanging in the
air down there and there is a

Spark

Hey could spray the walls down
but the company says it costs

Too much

It was..Uh, was sid hatfield
ever a miner?

Not for long me don't like to be
closed in sid

He's always real friendly,
smiling sid

Then the war come

Cable testerman got to be the
mayer

He made sid chief of police and
then the girl that cable

Married..Well...

I don't want you using danny on
no crazy union business

A man has to stand up for what
he believes in

Danny ain't no man..

Look it mister you gonna be
movin' on

Win or lose your gonna walk out
of this holler and we gotta stay

Here

I intend to leave a union when i
go

My husband used to talk union

I seen where it got him

-Mama people out front mama

Sorry mister we're full up
-Not anymore your not sonny

Stone mountain sent us down here
-We're still full up

Can i help you gentleman?
-These two are trying to push

Their way in here, i told them
it wasn't no use

I don't see where you got any
say in the matter

If my mama says you can't stay
here then you can't that's all

Danny!

Keep out of this

Look, i only got one room left

Well then somebody is going to
have to move don't they?

Let me see your register?
-You ain't seen nothin'

Lady we're here as guests of the
stone mountain coal company,

They own this house

Good morning

You fellas movin' in?

-Yeah
-No

Well you wont find a better
night's sleep anywheres in town

It's a shame i got to move over
to the hotel it's

Business you know

So you mind if i settle my bill
ma'am?

Danny, you sign these two
gentleman in

Don't think the company isn't
going to hear about this

Boy sometimes you got to bend so
as you don't break

Food's awful at the hotel

Mattress got lumps

Probably cooties too

I'll be all right

I'll get my things
-Thank you

Now, let's mine down here

Maybe we get some luck, get a
hold of something solid

Give the top a little poke

Now, if you get a ranging sound
your all set

Nice solid top over your head

You get a hollow sound

Like a drum that says it's
sagging a bit

You gotta put in another post

You did coal a long time?
-Since i was 10

We make a shoe, everybody in the
same fabric in milano

Make a shoe

-Shoes

You make shoes

As soon as they get that union
they'll send us back

It could be

But you try and head out of here
now, you be on all that money

Like they say company shoot you
for a thief

We just be slaves up here, they
own our black asses

Gentleman

-Hey few i got a question for
you

Yes

Now suppose they let us in this
union like they say, we gonna

Have to work with them italian
people?

(Laughs)

C'mon babies

C'mon and get it now, c'mon,
c'mon

C'mon now

Oh boy

Taking a walk?

I'm going up to the coal camp to
meet those new fellas when they

Come off their shifts

Your doing union business ain't
ya?

How you like mrs. Radner's?

Well it wasn't room, now i'm at
the hotel now

Ain't she a sourpuss though?

Mr. Kennehan! They's evictin' in
town mr. Kennehan

It's baldwin, baldwin thugs

This is town property

Who are you?

I'm the mayer

Well, pleased to meet you, my
name is bill hickey

This is tom griggs, we're
carrying out an eviction for

Stone mountain

You can do what you want up at
the coal camp

But this is town property

Stone mountain holds the deeds
on these houses cable

You need a writ for eviction

You the law around here?

Well good

Then you can help us, now these
people are trespassing on

Company property

They all signed a contract that
they wouldn't join any union

You uh, you baldwin-Felts
agency?

That's right

Presently employed by the stone
mountain coal company

This is from mr. Turley here

And this is from our boss mr.
Thomas felts

I've met mr. Felts

Well good, we won't have any
problem

I wouldn't pee on him if his
heart was on fire

(Laughs)

Neither of these will do for a
writ you'll have to see a judge

In charleston

What if we ain't got time to go
to charleston?

Then you better find some, now i
can't do nothin' about what you

Pull outside town limits

But you bother these people
under my jurisdiction i'll put

You under arrest

Yeah?

You and who's army?

All you men own a gun? Go home
and get it

Your deputy's as of now

The rest of you people stick
close, we'll need witnesses

I'm giving you 10 minutes to get
those people's belongings back

In the house

If the rest of the boys was here
you wouldn't be so cocky

If the rest of the boys was
here, i'd give you 5 minutes

Now move it

You can't win you know, this is
going to happen with you,

Without you

You can't stop it

All right boys let's put it back
in

This ain't our day

-That a boy sid!

I never seen a law man button a
company gun before

He's mostly a real nice feller
sid

Intention makes him nervous
though

We got a motion on the floor
here

And this is coal miners only

All them in favor of keeping
them scabs out of the mines

Tomorrow morning using whatever
force it looks like it necessary

Raise your hands

It's settled then

Pass them peas boy

Pass the peas danny

You boy deaf or dumb or what?

Daniel ain't dumb, daniel's a
preacher

That right boy? You a preacher?

Who do you preach to boy?
Squirrels?

Daniel preached at the meeting
last night, it was a good number

Of souls there

You a soul saver boy?

You want to have a go at me and
grigsy here that ought to be a

Real challenge

He's a squirrel preacher is what
stands up on a stump out in the

Woods and

Testifies to the holy rodent
-Danny!

You in a hurry to meet your
maker boy?

Ain't no guns allowed at the
table

Sit down danny

You do what your pretty mama
says preacher

You put that away now mister

Pack it away grigsy

Look, we're gonna to be here a
while little lady, you can have

It the easy way or the hard way

Now how about them peas?

Boys' gettin' on my nerves

Oh lord!

They told me they would talk to
the fellas

I saw they're faces last night
joe

They wasn't buying it

We're playing right into the
company's plans

The men voted joe, what more do
you want?

(Knocking)

I seen the lights on the hill

They're sneaking them in for a
night shift

Let's go fellas

Keller told me you sent from the
union

Uh-Huh

I bet you seen hundreds of
strikes

Yeah

I got thrown clear out of the
missionary the other night

Talking union from the pulpit

Are we getting close?
-Up there

(Yelling)

They're down the hill!

Over here

Now fellas put their lanterns
out

Just hit the dirt

I think this belongs to you

(Yelling in italian)

I'm with him

All of you union men let's
welcome our new brothers

(Cheers)

From now on

Stone mountain don't move one
piece of coal unless it's a

Union man that moves it

(Cheers)

Let's get out of here

(Singing in italian)

In them days the coal company
owned your houses, they owned

Your land, they owned most of
the town and the people who run

It

If you wasn't for the company,
there wasn't too many places you

Could go that was still on the
map

The union didn't have too much
they could give to the people

Back then

All we got in common is our
misery

Joe kennahan used to say and the
least we can do is share it

(Speaking italian)

She got the evil eye that one

Oh mama

Don't you let me catch you
peeking over there she got the

Evil eye if i've ever seen it

Well what do we got here?

We bring you some food mama
stole it from the company

Quite danny
-Well we can use anything you

Got

You people are crazy, you ain't
never gonna win this thing

Then what are you helping us
for?

I got work to do

Appreciate your help

I ain't never seen everybody all
together like this

Company don't stand a chance

Jessie...

What's the pitch?

Well i was just saying to the
mayor here how

We're all trying to do our jobs,
you, and me and him

And nobody is paying us enough
to be dodging no bullets for it

Um, now.

Mr. Felts has authorized me to

Make it more attractive for you
gentleman to cooperate

Town ain't for sale mister

What about you?

Now i figure that little show
you were putting on out there

The other day was just for
bargaining power

Or are you going to be stupid
too?

Either you sh*t hogs lift a
finger

In town limits i'll put you away

Damn hillbillys always gotta do
it the hard way

You boys are going up against
some

Pretty big people

Don't push your luck

How's jesse these days?
-Oh she's okay sid

You think they're bluffing?

Nope.

Neither am i

Now the way the relief fund
works is kind of tricky

Cause all the different
situations we got going around

The country

We stretched real thin, there's
a lot of strategy to who gets

What and when

I report to the strike committee

They evaluate the progress we're
making here and the political

Situation

And then they release the strike
fund to us

You mean they cut us off?

No, the amount we get is based
on..

What if they think we're going
to lose?

Look the strike committee
considers what's best for the

Union as a whole but that
doesn't mean..

Politics boys

Gonna play union, you gotta play
politics

I'm sure joe don't like that no
more than you do

I don't like it one damn bit

Me neither, i didn't get into
this thing so i can have one

More boss to tell me what to do

The union isn't your boss, it's
you

Then why we gotta wait?

For some hunkies up in
pittsburgh to give us the word

To move

Cause it's a democracy, it's
like the united states

Democracy
-That's a joke

Quiet

Get down they're shooting

Just keep your head down son

I'll make a night of it

I think he just got a little
piece of bullet left in there

Company doctor said he wouldn't
come out

But there's a fella in fifle on
the kentucky side that'll treat

Union men on this lie

He'll be here by noon

Will he treat colored?

He treats union. He'll treat
colored

More water danny
-Yes ma'am

You just hold this up there
against that real gentle

Don't press hard
-Elma you seen any of the men?

Only them that's wounded

How's ya doing?
-Not bad

At least nobody got killed

No thanks to you

Take it easy buddy

Morning joe

Hey bridey

You seen any of the fellas?
-Not a one

He's real nice lookin'

He likes me, i can tell

How?
-I just know men that's all

That'd make a cat laugh

If you want to make that kind of
slop

For dinner you go back home and
make it

This is united states here and
we do things differently

Listen to me, you can learn

Something here

C'mon ladies what's the problem?

I thought she was going to make
up some cornbread with it well

You should see the slop she come
up with

Miss elkins

These people got their own way
of doing things

Well that is a waste of good
corn meal if you ask me

She makes up this porrigly kind
of mess i wouldn't feed it to

The pigs

Where's all the men gone to?

That changes the whole picture

What i'm saying is unions is
fine for some things

But for other things a man has
to go on his own

Of course that's up to you

Roscoe

You make cindicato, you do what
the cindicato say

I listen to joe

Few clothes

We gonna be shooting white folks
right?

That's the idea

People you hear about black
folks shooting white folks

No matter what it's for there's
going to be hell to pay

You gotta point

Well then

If you gentleman will excuse us

You people have been put out of
stone mountain mine housing

And some of you have seen fit to
take along certain items

Of food, furniture and clothing
that don't belong to you but

Belong to the company

Now as of the day of the strike
your script ceased to be legal

Tender meaning

That any item of food, clothing,
and furniture not paid for in

Cash money

Must be turned over to me

And my deputies and i suggest
you all cooperate

See my boys

They didn't get much sleep last
night so they're kinda jumpy

Besides we got the law on our
side

You ain't no law you got to slip
around the real law

You just got guns is all

You just thugs

Yeah maybe your right sonny

We just got guns

You still got to hand in them
goods

Yellow scab herder you

You hurt? You get up from there

-You gotta list of goods

Don't need one

How you gonna know what belongs
to the company and what don't?

He's the red hickey

He's the agitator

Everybody you see i don't got a
gun on me

What good do you think that's
going to do you red?

You shoot me folks e'll know it
was murder

Well that's some cold comfort

Now you listen to me red

We was hunting

You folks are making an awful
lot of commotion

You scaredt all the game away

This your machine?

Heard it last night too

It's an offense to the ear

Hold it pops your talking to the
law here

He ask you anything?

Where did you get that thing
pal? Spanish war?

Nope

War between the states

You all get in this machine and
get into town where you belong

Ain't but one law out here and
that's the law of nature

Let's get the hell out of here

Folks try and keep the noise
down you'll do fine

Help yourself to the bird and
the rabbit

You see any hogs they probably
ours, we'd appreciate it if

You'd leave them be

Good day to you

Are you okay joe?

Yeah i'll be all right if it
weren't for my ribs

Who were those people?

Rossons mostly

And a shuttleworth

They miners?
-You never find them folks near

A hole, they have most of their
land stole by the company

They's hill people
-Foothill people really your

Genuine hill people

They can be dangerous

Now the thing you gotta remember
son

Is your fuse burns 1 foot per
minute

Make it too long they might see
it

Make it too short,

Well i'll be meeting you on the
other side

(Knocking at door)

Damn it

Air shaft #4

Go out the back way

Where is all our other friends
tonight miss elma?

They get tired of the chuck or
what?

I think that old bitty went on
strike

Laid down her teeth and
protested

They're just particular about
who they eat with

What about you miss elma?

Are you particular?

Stone mountain didn't hold the
lease here...

Stone mountain didn't hold lease
here you'd be peddling puntang

Down in cinder bottom so just
shut your mouth about it

Where's the little preacher
tonight?

Bitch got no table manners

Elma?

You know where danny is?

No. I don't know where anybody
is

Ain't nobody want to tell me
either

You okay?
-Yeah just tired is all

I been working all day this
place

I been working

The day they burned my husband i
started and i been working and

It don't ever stop

I get so tired

And

There ain't nobody
-Look it's hard

It's hard being on your own

You don't know nothing about it

We're in business buddy let's
get going

(Train whistle blows)

What is it?
-Sounds like dynamite up in the

Mine, might be that #5 shaft

Might be some shootin'

Hillard! Hillard!

You seen my boy? Anybody seen my
boy hillard?

Hillard!

Anybody seen my hillard?

(Gun cocks)

(Car engine running)

They're up the hill!

Shoot low boys cut 'em down

You fellas get on out of here,
i'll hold 'em back

Jesus! Get up

Sephus c'mon

Okay boys let's spread out, he's
here somewhere

I got him he's over here
-Hold it boys it's me

Hold your fire boys it's c.E.

You all right?

You better get back to camp

Judas

Hold his leg

Hold it, hold, hold

Now i'm just going to pull this
back from your leg boy

Gimme back that knife hillard

What happened?

We was sold and baldwins come up
from behind

Known right when we was laying
out

They know'd when the men was out
of camp today too

How's she feelin' buddy

You made it. I thought we lost
you back there

Well i got off a couple of
rounds

Buried myself in the leaves

Seen reese hadley go down though

Sephus get back?

I don't think so

You see what happens when you
pick up a gun

All i see is them niggers and
dagos weren't there tonight and

We was sold and somebody gonna
pay

Something bad is happening out
there

Those guns

Hunting party, that's all

Now where was i?

Time to put all shyness

Time to put all shyness aside

And admit to our heartfelt

Attraction

I'm not sure how you spell
attraction

How about

Heartfelt desires

Are you sure you want to do
this?

Heartfelt desires

Dearest

Joseph

(Dog barking)

Look at that just a cupboard
with gore, dogs didn't do all

That

Are you drawing breath son?

Baldwins, we were sold

What's your name?

Sephus

Sephus purcell

Kin to nimrod purcell?

That's daddy's uncle

Say some baldwins took ya

From behind

None of them purcells ever was
too bright

Grab his ankles missus and mind
your dress

He is bleeding like a stuck pig

I found 'em boys, he's here

It's reese

Got yourself a martyr

I tired to stop this

Any sign of sephus?

We'll maybe smell him before we
see him

They found somebody?

Just stay right here honey,
don't want to look at that mess

But i got something for mr.
Kennehan

I don't think he's in no mood to
be bothered right now

I'll see he gets it

Who is it?

Oh just some poor miner whose
troubles is finally over

Don't look honey

I talked to elix he says your
phonograph machine

Is going to be fixed in a couple
days now

It's awful nice of you to do
everett

Well we got to take care of our
favorite lady now don't we

You been so generous

Thinking about me when that mr.
Kenerhan got you all so busy

With the union

That mr. Kenerhan is what i come
to talk to you about bridey

I got a suspicion he might not
be what he says he is

What do you mean?

Bridey

Did you send kenerhan some sort
of letter?

What do you want?

No.

He wouldn't

There's a whole crowd of fellas
standing around him i seen

Kenerhan laughing and waving
that letter

So i

Come over to see what was so
funny

A lot of fellers?

You mind if i have another drink
honey

It ain't purdy what i gotta say

He said some things bridey

She been following me around
ever since i got here

Trailing after me like a dog in
heat

Sniffing around my legs like a
brood bitch

She don't wear no drawers he
says so she can be ready for

Whatever stumbles down the
pathway

He didn't!

He didn't

He said you done it with one of
the coloreds

Lying bastard

Bridey

I think it might be worse than
that

I think he might be a spy

In with the coal operators

Well he's got the fellas so
turned around with all this talk

I need for you to help me bridey

And sometimes you gotta tell a
little bit of a lie

Just to get the truth across

We fight them with guns

We lose

That's the whole damn story

I'm not going to bulls*it you
fellas and tell you there won't

Ever come a time when the people
that own this state send the

Word down to have us all
murdered

But if we don't stand together
now

As workers we got no hope at all

Help me up

You going somewhere?

This is miner's business and you
ain't no miner

You two come along

So, um

Last night he comes up here and

Uh, he's all drunk and
everything and i says as how i

Didn't want to have nothin' to
do with him and

And i would call some of you
fellers

For help and

He says that all of you was

Taking care of

Taking care of huh?

When i seen that there wasn't no
help i ...

He uh, kinda

Forced me, he...

He forced me

Easy...

That's okay you better hear this
first hand

Go ahead honey, what happened
then

And afterwards he

Thrown money on the bed like i
were some kind of a whore

You done just fine honey

Now why don't you go sit outside
for a minute while we figure out

What we're going to do about
this

So he don't have no sense with
women

So what?

You know how bridey builds
things up

Take a look at this

That our friend left laying on
the floor last night

Baldwin felts agency

What it say?
-It's a death warrant is what

For mr. Joseph kinerhan

(Knocks on door)

So it's goodbye mr. Kinerhan
tonight

Miners?

How'd you manage that?

That tramp that goes to meet the
passenger train

Seems she's got the eye for
kinerhan

So he put it in her head that
kinerhan has been bad mouthing

Her all around town

He's got her down there right
now crying to the miners

And..He's got these papers from
loufield

I didn't leave my colt like this

You spying little bastard!

What'd you hear huh?

What did you hear?
-Nothin'

Horse sh*t hit him bill!

See this medal

You know how i won this preacher
boy huh?

I was sitting alone in a ditch
in france and this kraut jumps

In right next to me

And i took my bayonets

And i stuck him right in the
face

And then another jumps in and i
stick him too

And another, and another

And another they just kept
coming one at a time all night

Long

And a little bit i got too
worried that they weren't all

Dead so

I stuck them all again a couple
times just to make sure

And in the morning

They said that i was a war hero

Well i'm going to stay close to
you tonight preacher boy

And you let one wrong word fly

And i'm going to put one in your
skull

And i'll do the same for your
pretty mama

You know i ain't lying don't ya
boy?

Yes sir

Man who draws the short straw
gets to do the job

And word don't travel beyond
this room about who it is

The rest of us will want a good
alibi

I figure in that prayer meeting
tonight

Right under the preacher's nose

Welcome to the union son

What's the story?

Flutie that the baldwins was
coming out here tonight

And i'm supposed to stick by you

You got the sh*t detail again
huh?

You all right danny?

You got your sermon memorized?

I bet he don't know anymore
scripture than i do

And that ain't a whole hell of a
lot is it grigsy?

You know any?

I never got no further was in
the beginning was the word guess

We both doomed to the hot place

(Laughs)

Lord relies on little sh*ts like
this one to spread his word, i

Don't want no truck with heaven

And as for hell, well we been to
west virginia (laughs)

¶(singing a hymn)�

(Laughing in the back)

Ahhh

What in god's name you doin'
son? I just got your licks all

Stopped and here your trying to
bust them open again

I got to get down there, they
got to know

You ain't goin' nowheres unless
it's in a pine box

Where's your sense?

I got to

I wish those fellas'd get here

Huh?

If they're comin' i wish they'd
hurry up, i don't want any more

Shooting in the woods

You ever use one of those?

10th calvary

In cuba 2nd 98th

San juan hill

Pretty rough down there?

Did what i had to

Is it true you're a red?

Yeah i suppose it is

Then how come you don't carry a
gun?

Well we carry little round bombs

Don't you read the papers?

I want to tell you tonight about
the blackness in the heart of

Man

Gonna warn you about the many
and devious ways in which satan

Will hide from you the truth

Of who your real friends are

I'm going to do it with a story
from the patriarchs

Now we all know about joseph and
how out of all jacobs 12

Children he was the smartest and
the smoothest and how his

Brothers got so jealous they
pulled off his coat of many

Colors and whooped on him and
left him out to be sold into

Slavery

But joseph was not your ordinary
fella even for biblical times,

He had a special way with him

A way of looking at the grand
scheme of things

So when this fella podafar
bought him for a slave

Joseph just smiled and vowed he
was going to be a good one,

Making the best of a bad
situation

He put his heart to his work and
was honest and friendly in his

Dealings and before you knew it
he was just about running

Podafars households and fields
and all his business' for him

The only trouble was podafar's
wife

Now she was what you might call
a loose woman

When i was in leavenworth there
was a bunch of mennonites

Mainly because they wouldn't
fight in the war, it's against

Their religion

It's also against their religion
to shave their beards or

Wear buttons on their clothes
and they was being forced to do

Both by the prison guards

So they refused to work

And they went on a strike right
there in hell's half acre

They was handcuffed to the bars
of a cell house

8 hours a day for two full weeks

They were put with their arms up
like this

So's they had to stand on their
toes or those cuffs would cut

Into their wrists

Can't nobody stay on their toes
8 hours

So pretty soon

Their fingers would start to
swell up

They turned blue and then

They'd crack open

Blood would run down their arms

8 hours a day

Day after day

Still they wouldn't work

Still they tore the buttons off
their uniforms every time they

Were sewed back on

They tore them with their teeth
because they're hands wouldn't

Close no more

So now i don't claim the fame
for myself

But them fellas they never
lifted a gun in their lives

And you couldn't find any braver
in my book

I wish them fellas would get
here

Also in podafar's employ at this
time were a couple of spies from

One of his enemies

Fellas that wanted to bring him
down in the world and get their

Hands on his fields and houses

They seen the want and lust in
miss podafar

And seen it would be good for
their purposes to get shed of

The young joseph

So they come to podafar's wife

(Harmonica playing)

She calls joseph in and she asks
him one more time, joseph will

You lie with me?

And he says no ma'am i won't

And she sets up and grabs a hold
of his garment he's wearing and

Runs it in two before he can get
clear

Podafar runs in with his guards
and she's bawling her eyes out

And shaking like a leaf, your
servant joseph, she says

He come in here and tried to
make me lie with him

Only when i called out he fled
leaving this here garment as

Evidence

And now only that she says she'd
been spying and plotting against

You with your enemies he means
to take over here and have you

Killed

But podafar had no reason to
misbelieve his wife

Joseph was a slave and a
foreigner

So he gathered up his servants
and household workers and they

Went and slew joseph dead

Cut him from gut to gizzard and
left him bleeding in the street

And though they never learned of
miss podafar's lies and went to

Their maker unrepentant with
innocent blood on their hands

Draw your own conclusions

¶(singing hymn)�

Gettin' awful late
-Shhhhh

You hear something?

No.

Yeah i think i did

Like somebody moaning

Maybe it's the fellas

I think we should go out there
and have a look

Who's that?

(Laughs)

That's (laughs)

(Laughs) mingala

Well we better get back to camp
-(Laughs)

Wait a minute (laughs)

Well at least we didn't waste a
trip

(Fire bell blaring)

No way it won't spread

Is c.E. Inside?

No such luck

Find that son of a bitch

(Fire bell blaring)

(Train whistle blowing)

How come they waste more food in
one day than a poor workers

Family has on their table in a
week?

Now let me ask you? Who's sweat
was it that went into building

Those mansions

-Once they seen hell, they'd
almost done an innocent man it

Was like joe couldn't say no
wrong

We moved out into mango county
then

Spreading the word about the
union

Spreading like wildfire over the
red jacket

The ragland and dale barton all
up and down the tug fork river

Brining the union out to all the
folks that needed help

Putting the spirit into them and
trying to shut down the whole

Southwest field

-Helping themselves to our land
and our labor for too damn long

¶(singing in italian)�

Joe kinerhan said how there was
a new day comin' and sometimes i

Could just about see it

But it were a dangerous living
for a union man and you didn't

Dare turn your back

Hit with hard times and hit with
hungry times too

The union relief was spread thin
in hope of a new day you can

Feed your soul

But leave your belly rumbling

Scoot!

Lady?

Since there's just me and
hillard, and you got all these

Little ones

Well...

You know what to do with this?

Hillard brung it in

It's for you

I ain't gonna watch no babies go
hungry, now here you go on

Here is some navy beans

And these here is ramps now you
can cook with these

They put a taste in your stew

Anyhow

Well, i...

Figure we's all in this together

We sure got some pretty babies

Who's your favorite pitcher?
-Hot eller

He's from logan county

You get to play ball much?

When the mines were open

Joe...

Yeah

You ever kill anybody?

What brought that up?

Bet sid has

Here in the war

All i saw was workers killin'
workers

And it wasn't any point in it

They thrown you in jail cause
you wouldn't go?

Them two years kept me from
killin some poor stiff that got

Pushed out on a battlefield by
rich folks and politicians

And they were worth it

It's gettin' dark danny

You better go get that coal

You see there, right there by
the railroad trestle

That's where cap hatfield and
his boy joe glen killed three

Men

Boy wasn't but 13

Used a winchester

You think it hurts much? A
bullet?

Beats dying in a damn coal mine

Boy wasn't but 13 year old joe
glen

Must be in there

He always sleeps with the lights
on

Just gotta be quiet though

(Gunshot)
-Let's get the little bastards

-Over here

-Grab him, cut him off

Well, well what we got here?

Smarts a little don't it boy?

Hillard right?

Now, how about you give us the
names of your ring leaders up in

Logan

Give us 5 names boy, that's all,
5 names and we'll let you go

That's fair isn't it?
-Never

Grigsy

Talk to us boy
(punches him)

Talk to us

I'll rot in hell first
-Have it your way

Mr. Lively

Boy, i sentence you to death for
the crime of stealing company

Property

And being a dirty bolshevist
human man

You got 10 seconds to talk

Talk

Whoo, what a smell, boy dirtied
his diapers

We want names son

I can't

I swear on the bible

Then we're going to have to get
down to it son, use the razor

Hold him boys

Just a little nick boy

Get it off your chest son

Clyde matts, bill mann, acer
redna, j.T. Kito

5, give us 5 boy

And hiley shelton

-Kill him
no!

One of them fellas he named live

Clay hill

Where's that?

It's a cemetery

Them are all fellas that was
killed in a gas fire 5-6 years

Ago

Nothin' like a young boy dyin'

To stir things up

(Crying in the distance)

Baldwin's coming into town
tomorrow kenerhan

You fellas have any idea what's
waiting for us?

You mean they didn't tell you?

Oh i just seen a line in the
papers of opportunity for red

Blooded american men

Immediate openings, high pay

Travels, chance for advancement,
apply baldwin felts and write

Your own ticket

The natives get restless
someplace they put that out

You ever hear of the hatfields
and mccoys son?

Yeah of course i have

This is one of their stomping
grounds

They'll put a bullet in your
brain as soon as they look at ya

Sid, we have authorization to
put these miners off company

Property here in town

Not from me you don't

And we also go a warrant for
your arrest you give us any

Trouble

This ain't worth sh*t and you
know it

One way or another we're going
to carry out these evictions

Tomorrow morning

Gentleman

Hey come to kill me

Hillard was my friend

When i first come down to the
mines it was hillard who'd show

Me what to do

He was a good coal miner, a good
union man

And he always took care of his
mama

I don't know how they could have
done him like they did

All he wanted to do was live
decent, that's all

Sometimes people say how god
willed it, how everything is his

Plan

Well...i don't think he planned
on hillard laying here amongst

All these elinson's not this
young in his life

I think all god plans is we get
born and we got to take it from

There

So you rest in peace hillard

You rest easy cause we're going
to take up where you left off

Amen

You gonna tell us to turn the
other cheek still

Shootin' is what they want now

Then maybe it's what we want too

Expect too much of people joe

Your still after that one big
union but most of us

We can't see past this holler

¶(singing gospel)�

I need to talk to the men

Be decent now

I'll call a meeting in the
morning

First thing

¶(gospel singing continues)�

Pastor said stay away from town
tomorrow

Is something up?

Got a feelin' you know how white
folks gets when they're all

Excited

Nothin' is going to bring
hillard back you know

And i came here to help

Sure you did

First people come here to help
us with some money

Next we know we got no land

Then they say they're going to
help us with a job and a place

To live

And they stick us in some damn
coal camp

And let us dig out their mines

Now you come here to help us
bring in the new day

Well hillard ain't gonna see no
new day

We had about as much help as we
can stand

We gotta take care of ourselves

We got to take care of each
other

¶(harmonica playing blues tune)�

Joe!, joe! The men go to town

See it?

No need for you to be in on this

It's my town too, they're my
people

Y'all have no right to come to
this here town with all these

People and drawing guns and
terrorizing them

The writs you have are not valid
for this town

If you can't get one..
-No!!!!!

Oh...

Jesus don't shoot me

I just want to talk

I just want to talk

(Gun firing)

I can't feel my legs

(Softly sobbing)

There was a trial but there
wasn't nobody going to pass

Guilty on sid hatfield in mango
county

Sid got married to mayor
testerman's widow and then the

Baldwins they caught him unarmed

Walking up the steps of the
mcdowd county court house

They shot 15 bullets into him

Right in broad daylight and c.E.
Lively stepped in and put one

Right through his skull

Wasn't even a trial on that one

That was the start of the great
cold feet war and us miners took

The worst of it like joe said we
would

It's just one big union the
whole world over as joe kenerhan

Used to say

And from the day of the mate 1
massacre that's what i preached

That was mreligion

We buried joe kenerhan with our
own

My mama she thought it wouldn't
never stay

But now he's with us for always

Laying up here in these west
virginia hills

¶(singing slow country song)�