Where. What year is the 20s? We talked about 1921. The Battle of Blair Mountain. Yeah. All right. You know more about West Virginia than I do. But Coal miners were treated like semi slaves. They were not given money, US Currency. They were paid in script. Script that have to go buy at a company store, high prices, pay rent in a company owned apartment. But workers back in the 20s and before that worked under horrible conditions, had no right. (25:10–25:20)
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Asserts that coal miners were historically paid in script instead of US currency, likening their treatment to semi-slavery.
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