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Pro-Labor Image A piece of pro-labor propaganda. Printed images like these were used to sway hearts and minds in the battle for workers' rights. A simple image like this invokes the staggering levels of complexity in these movements- requiring printers, artists, distributors, and whole layers of dedicated workers working together. Taken from Paint Creek Miner: Famous Labor Songs from Appalachia, by Charles Patterson. -
IWW Labor Propaganda A pro-union image printed by the IWW. Images like this helped to contribute to workers' awareness of unions and to encourage union philosophy. Many union organizers thought that unions should be the ones to run industry- not bosses and firms. Taken from Paint Creek Miner: Famous Labor Songs from Appalachia, by Charles Patterson. -
Fred Mooney (left), C.F. Keeney (right) Mine leaders charged with treason When the trials of 120 officers and members of the United Mine Workers of America charged with treason growing out of the Logan march last fall opened in Charlestown, West Virginia yesterday among the 23 who were arraigned in court were C.F. Keeney, president of District Number 17, United Mine Workers, and Fred Mooney, secretary of District Number 17. Left to right - Fred Mooney, C.F. Keeney -
Mother Jones Mother Jones speaks to an assembled crowd in Montgomery, West Virginia in 1912 ahead of the Paint Creek Miners Strike -
Underage Coal Miners Drivers and Mules in Gary, W. V. where much of the mining and carrying is done by machinery