Harlan Miners Speak: Report on Terrorism in the Kentucky Coal Fields

By National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, Sherwood Anderson, John Dos Passos, et al.

Book Overview

The Dreiser Committee, including writers Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, and Sherwood Anderson, investigated the desperate situation of striking Kentucky miners in November 1931. When the Communist-led National Miners Union competed against the more conservative United Mine Workers of America for greater union membership, class resentment turned to warfare. Harlan Miners Speak, originally published in 1932, is an invaluable record that illustrates the living and working conditions of the min

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813191874
• ISBN13: 9780813191874
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher