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1937 - Depression Strikes: Coal Miners Hold Sit-Down Strike Deep Underground

Reel Number: 250001-61

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1937

Country: USA

Location: Illinois,Wilsonville

TC Begins: 01:53:08

TC Ends: 01:53:39

Duration: 00:00:31

1937 - Depression Strikes: Coal Miners Hold Sit-Down Strike Deep Underground 01:53:12 Pit head, crowd of women & children watch, MCU. 01:53:16 Miners go down in cage, wheels turning. Underground, miners wearing helmets stage sit-in. Playing cards. Sleeping. Miners cheer. CUs. 1937 Organized Workers; Unions; Depression; Illinois Coal Mining; NOTE: Miners of PMA Local 1 staged sit-down street for nine days in Mine #4.

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