the making of modern america: coal unionization in alabama july 14, 2011
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Miners Unions• 1830s: Origins • 1850s: miners’ unions• 1869-87: Knights of Labor • 1890: United Mine
Workers (UMW)• 10% AL budget: leased
convicts to Tennessee Coal and Iron (TCI)
• “Judicial mixture” and “Biracial unionism”
Alabama: 1890-1908• Strikes: 1890, 1894 • 1904-6 TCI strike• 1908: US Steel• July 1908: Strike,
militia, strikebreakers, violence–Aug.: Evans
document: reappraisal?
Turning Point: 1908Braxton Bragg Comer
and ProgressivismMartial lawTent cities destroyedStrikers = “vagrants” =
convict laborHenry Debardeleben,
miners and race