MATEWAN, W.Va. (AP) — The bullet holes in the brick wall of a former post office serve as a reminder of how Appalachian coal miners fought to improve the lives of workers a century ago. Ten people ...

In January 1920, the United Mine Workers of America launched a major campaign to organize the non-union coalfields of southern West Virginia. Along the West Virginia-Kentucky line, some 3,000 miners ...

MANY READERS of Socialist Worker will have seen the excellent John Sayles film Matewan, about a group of miners in West Virginia who go on strike against the coal bosses in the early 1920s. In the ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Tuesday marks the 100th anniversary of the Matewan massacre, in which Mingo County officials and detectives with Baldwin-Felts Detectives Inc. engaged in a conflict that would lead ...

West Virginia State Police will be on the lookout for speeding and seatbelt violations as Memorial Day and the summer travel season approaches. Ex-commissioner indicted on 250+ child sex crimes posts ...

MATEWAN, W.Va. -- The bullet holes in the brick wall of a former post office serve as a reminder of how Appalachian coal miners fought to improve the lives of workers a century ago. Ten people were ...

CHARLESTON - A new museum dedicated to the Matewan Massacre and other labor struggles in West Virginia's southern coalfields will promote history that has been overlooked, a member of the museum's ...

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In this Tuesday, May 12, 2020, photo a historical sign stands outside a former post office in Matewan, W.Va. On May 19, 1920, a group of miners, who were led by a local police chief, and detectives ...