This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Pride on the line. Last week’s show: The longest nurses’ strike. In response to an ongoing attempt by coal mine owners to replace miners with convicts leased by the state, a group of miners burn the Tennessee Coal Mining Company stockade in Briceville and seize the Knoxville Iron Company stockade at Coal Creek, freeing over 300 convicts and supplying them with food and civilian clothes. Today in Labor History Comments are closed.
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