Word: matewan
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...bound to arm themselves and adopt violent methods in their strike. Where the workers go armed, the employer is bound to call in additional force; and the vicious circle widens indefinitely, each side alleging self-protection as the cause for its acts. The recent series of affrays in Matewan, West Virginia, have already cost a dozen lives, detectives, strikers, and peaceful citizens being numbered among the slain. Such futile affairs as this need never occur, if only employer and employee alike could learn to refrain from provoking their opponents...