irrational behavior from the stock market. In the film, Matewan, it brought up how things were tough in response to effort by the miners to organize labor union, and they were receiving huge cuts in their pay, and some of the coal mine workers were being replaced, which I would assume were being paid substantially less than the original coal miners were.
The new workers were African American from Alabama, but they did not make it far because the coal miners were on the attack. I would imagine this…
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