Posted inStrike news

‘Matewan’ film’s recounting of 1920 union battle in West Virginia mining town remains strong history lesson for today

Lou Martin, Shaun Slifer and Lorraine Starsky all laud “Matewan,” a 1987 John Sayles film that depicted the brutal fight to form a union in that southern West Virginia coal mining town. Martin and Slifer — the founder and current board president and the creative director of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum in Matewan, […]