Powerful scene from the classic movie "Matewan," about union miners in West Virginia fighting back. Movie is available here: http://amzn.to/2c6r8en #LaborDay #Union #1u | Brandon Weber

Matewan Written and directed by John Sayles, this wrenching historical drama recounts the true story of a West Virginia coal town where the local miners’ struggle to form a union rose to the pitch of all-out war in 1920. When Matewan’s miners go on strike, organizer Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper, in his film debut) arrives to help them, uniting workers white and black, Appalachia-born and immigrant, while urging patience in the face of the coal company’s violent provocations. With a crackerjack ense

The 1997 John Sayles movie, "Matewan," gives us the story of the unionized miners in Matewan, WV fighting the mine owners for a living wage. I have been to the museum there, and it's the kind of thing that is hard to forget. (NSFW warning: Racial slurs.) | Brandon Weber