News Coverage?
This was amazing. anybody know if this strike was covered on the news. i wasn't alive in the 70's. i remember them talkin about publicity but they never discussed what kind (national, state).
http://youtube.com/user/mwilli95
There were many articles on this strike in the New York Times. Among them:
MINERS CONTINUE KENTUCKY STRIKE; Organizing Effort 16 Weeks Old in Harlan Area, Scene of Bloody Fights in Past
Hearings Open Today in Tense 7-Month-Old Miners' Strike in Harlan County, Scene of 1931 Shootout
MINE UNION TRIES TO BAR STOCK SALE; U.M.V. is at Odds With the Duke Power Co.
N.L.R.B. ACCUSES MINING COMPANY; Negotiators of Duke Power Said to Doom Bargaining
U.M.W. CHARGES ANTISTRIKE PLOT; It Accuses Utility and Rival Miners Union of 'Bribery and Coercion' in Kentucky
Coal Miners Started the Strike--Then Their Women Took Over
U.M.W. CITES VOWS TO SHUN DUKE POWER
2,000 Coal Miners Parade in Harlan, Ky., In a 'Memorial' for Safety in Industry; Police Guard Parade
Two Men Are Shot in Kentucky In Incident Laid to Mine Strike
New Coal Dispute Recalls 'Bloody Harlan'; County in Kentucky Gripped Again by Labor Violence
13-Month Strike Is Ended By Kentucky Mine Accord