The Battle of Blair Mountain

Revolutionary Left Radio

Breht O'Shea

Communism, Politics, Liberalism, Society & Culture, Philosophy, News, History, Leftwing, Socialism, Marxism

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 183 minutes

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Summary

Chris and Dave from the Mandatory OT and IWW join Breht to cover the fascinating and crucially important history of the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest labor uprising in American history and the largest armed uprising in America since the Civil War.

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A List of Sources:

1. “Thunder In the Mountains” by Lon Savage

2. “Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields” and “Gun Thugs, Rednecks, and Radicals” by David Alan Corbin

3. PBS’s “American Experience: The Mine Wars”

4. “Smokestacks in the Hills: Rural-Industrial Workers in West Virginia” by Lou Martin

5. “Company-Owned Americans” by Arthur Gleason

6. “Black Avalanche” by Winthrop D. Lane

7. West Virginia State Archives

8. WVCulture

Outro Music: 'Blair Mountain' by Great American Taxi

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0:00.0	Cole, mine is the most dangerous work in Ireland today.
0:09.0	With plenty of dirty, slavin' work and very little pay,
0:15.0	Cole, mine, or won't you wake up and open your eyes and see
0:21.0	what the dirty capitalist system is doing to you and me.
0:27.0	Dear Miner, they will slave you till you can't work no more.
0:33.0	And why do you get for your living?
0:36.0	But a dollar in a company store, a tumble down Shaft-Live ends,
0:42.0	no rain pours in the top, you have to pay the company rent your pain never stop.
0:51.0	I am a Cole, mine is wife, I'm sure I wish you well.
0:57.0	Let's make this capitalist system in the darkest bits of hell.
1:09.0	Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio.
1:13.0	Before we get into this wonderful episode with mandatory OT on the Battle of Blair Mountain,
1:18.0	I want to cover a couple things up front.
1:20.0	First things first, we have finally some high quality, unique design shirts for supporters and listeners of Revolutionary Left Radio.
1:30.0	A previous guest, I think it was our episode entitled Something Like Rebel Music a couple years ago.
1:35.0	Our guest from that episode has recently started a Communist clothing line called Goods for the People.
1:41.0	And as they were sort of launching their clothing line, they reached out to me,
1:45.0	wondered if we wanted to do some sort of collaborative design with them.
1:49.0	And I obviously jumped at that opportunity.
1:51.0	So we do have shirts, I will link to the shirts in the show notes so you can go check it out.
1:57.0	At first I wasn't sure that I didn't think we were going to get any money from it.
2:00.0	It was just about making these high quality shirts available to our listeners.
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