1912 Coal MIner Strike

Militia men guard weapons and ammunition confiscated from coal companies and striking workers during the ongoing conflict, Charleston, West Virginia, 1912. With the city under martial law, the militia was quartered on Cabin Creek and Paint Creek and here displat six machine guns, 2,000 shotguns, Mausers, Winchesters, Springfields, and other mountain rifles, plus 250,000 rounds of ammunition, much of which was found in the woods. (Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images)
Militia men guard weapons and ammunition confiscated from coal companies and striking workers during the ongoing conflict, Charleston, West Virginia, 1912. With the city under martial law, the militia was quartered on Cabin Creek and Paint Creek and here displat six machine guns, 2,000 shotguns, Mausers, Winchesters, Springfields, and other mountain rifles, plus 250,000 rounds of ammunition, much of which was found in the woods. (Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images)
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January 01, 1912
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