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Riley Moore: “The labor union movement really got started in West Virginia…”

Featuring: Riley Moore, Republican | U.S. House West Virginia, District 2

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Fighting for the Working Class with Rep. Riley Moore

Published | Video Starts at 30:07

What, how do people understand unions? The good, the bad, the indifferent? Maybe. Yeah. Look, we have a lot of labor unions in West Virginia. The labor union movement really got started in West Virginia with the mine wars back in the 20s. I mean, we had Mother Jones down here and everybody else. That was the United Mine Workers of America, umwa, that's the coal miners union. And so this is something that is. (30:07–30:14)

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Asserts that the labor union movement began in West Virginia during the mine wars in the 1920s.

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