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Harlan miners speak : report on terrorism in the Kentucky Coal Fields : prepared by members of the National Committee for the defense of political prisoners by Prepared by members of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners: Theodore Dreiser [and others] is a book available to read on EtoBox.

The Dreiser Committee, including writers Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, and Sherwood Anderson, investigated the desperate situation of striking Kentucky miners in November 1931. When the Communist-led National Miners Union competed against the more conservative United Mine Workers of America for greater union membership, class resentment turned to warfare. Harlan Miners Speak, originally published in 1932, is an invaluable record that illustrates the living and working conditions of the miners during the 1930s

Author

Prepared by members of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners: Theodore Dreiser [and others]

Publisher

Da Capo Press, Incorporated

Published

1970

Language

EN

ISBN

9780306718892

Subjects

Economics, Management, Business