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Without government intervention, Harlan probably could not have been organized. A decade of violence produced several deaths and countless injuries. Unionism, however, brought significant economic and social gains to miners. "Bloody" Harlan County lived through the decade of strife and emerged a better place for miners and their families.
Source:
John W. Hevener, Which Side Are You On? The Harlan County Coal Miners, 1931-1939 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978).
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