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Hellraisers Journal – Thursday June 26, 1913
Charleston, West Virginia – Testimony Before Senate Committee Reveals Peonage
From The Wheeling Majority of June 19, 1913:
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote Mother Jones, Powers of Privilege ed, Ab Chp III
https://www.iww.org/history/library/MotherJones/autobiography/3
The Wheeling Majority
(Wheeling, West Virginia)
-June 19, 1913
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86092530/1913-06-19/ed-1/seq-1/
See also:
Conditions in the Paint Creek District, West Virginia
Hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor, United States Senate, Sixty-third Congress, first session, pursuant to S. res. 37, a resolution authorizing the appointment of a committee to make an investigation of conditions in the Paint Creek district, West Virginia [June 2-Oct. 29, 1913]
Volume I (June 2-June 18, 1913, Charleston, WV)
(search: with last names from article above, search also with: peonage)
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433004194795&view=2up&seq=11
Note: Peonage was not a new condition of labor for the miners
of West Virginia; see the following article from 1903:
“Forced Labor in West Virginia” by Gino C. Speranza
-from The Outlook, June 13, 1903, pp. 407-409
https://archive.org/details/sim_new-outlook_1903-06-13_74_7/page/406/mode/2up?view=theater
Tag: Senate Investigation of Paint Creek Coal Fields of West Virginia of 1913
https://weneverforget.org/tag/senate-investigation-of-paint-creek-coal-fields-of-west-virginia-of-1913/
Tag: Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Strike of 1912-1913
https://weneverforget.org/tag/paint-creek-cabin-creek-strike-of-1912-1913/
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