With the dust barely settled after the Great War and the United States in the grip of an economic and social depression, a group of Virginian miners have had enough of being paid a pittance and being subjected to third-rate safety practices. Moreover, what they are paid is usually swallowed up in company stores or homes and so most of them find themselves and their families caught up in a poverty trap from which they consider a Trades Union may be their only escape. The owners, though, are wise to this strategy and so hire a firm of ruthless private detectives to ensure compliance with their p…
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