On this day in 1912, the Paint Creek Mine War began when West Virginia miners struck, demanding formal union recognition and fairer labor practices. The incident quickly escalated into one of the worst labor conflicts in U.S. history.
The event, also known as the Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Strike, centered on the area enclosed by two streams, Paint Creek and Cabin Creek. It is considered part of the "Coal Wars", a series of armed conflicts between workers and coal companies from the 1890s - 1930s in the United States.
The strike lasted for fourteen months, and over 5,000 workers participated. Notable labor organizer Mother Jones (shown) came to West Virginia to support the workers, organizing a secret march of 3,000 armed miners to the steps of the state capitol in Charleston to read a declaration of war to Governor William E. Glasscock.
The confrontation directly caused approximately fifty violent deaths from armed conflicts between miners and strike-breaking forces, as well as many more deaths indirectly caused by starvation and malnutrition among the striking miners. In terms of casualties, it was among the worst conflicts in American labor history.
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Fallout TV finale spoilers
Is it me or could the
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NCR still be around? The last episode shows Shady Sands NCR remnants getting wiped out by the Brotherhood.
Unless Bethesda really intends Muldaver to be the last of the NCR, that she worked alone, and that losing shady sands means the entire NCR collapsed.
And that we're probably going to see more of them in Season 2 unless Bethesda really that stupid and on the nose?
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There were plenty of survivors from the NCR, we're told that her group (Including the raiders and the village around the observatory) is compose of NCR survivors or their descendants, as were the vault dwellers in the science vault (And they also revere her as a messiah figure). But the dialogue with all the talk of "It didn't work out" and references to failed experiments make it pretty clear they intended for the NCR to be dead. But also Mouldaver (Or however you spell it) isn't the last of the NCR. She's Pre-War.
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Yea people actling like Bethesda put out a hit on the perfectly fine, stable NCR are being silly. Losing Shady Sands wouldn't make the NCR disintegrate overnight, but it would exacerbate issues present since New Vegas, leading to societal decline.