@raiseupthesouth: Today in Southern labor history, the Battle of Blair Mountain in West Virginia was fully underway. Beginning with company towns, grueling working conditions, corporate guns-for-hire, and assassinations, mine workers stood together and said enough was enough. Here is part one of how one of the biggest uprisings in labor history came to be. #OrganizetheSouth #UnionsforAll #UnionStrong #Unions #work #WorkerPower #CorporateGreed #laborhistory #history #blairmountain #westvirginia #companytown #solidaritysummer