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Battle of Matewan
Part of the West Virginia coal wars
Date
May 19, 1920
Location
Matewan, West Virginia, United States
Resulted in
A setback for miners' rights until the early 1930s when the Government finally recognized American labor unions. Eventual passage of the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933
Parties
Matewan civilians; United Mine Workers of America
Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency
Lead figures
Sid Hatfield Mayor Cabell Testerman †
Albert Felts †
Number
Deputy Fred Burgraff, local miners & residents
13 Baldwin–Felts detectives
Casualties and losses
Deaths: 3; two miners and Mayor Cabell Testerman
Deaths: 7; including Baldwin–Felts detectives brothers Albert and Lee Felts
The Battle of Matewan (also known as the Matewan Massacre[1]) was a shootout in the town of Matewan in Mingo County and the Pocahontas Coalfield mining district, in southern West Virginia. It occurred on May 19, 1920 between local coal miners and their allies and the Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency. The dead included two brothers of the detective agency's founder and Matewan's mayor Cabell Testerman, who supported the union.
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side of labor, during the Coal Wars of the early 20th century. Hatfield was police chief ofMatewan, West Virginia during the BattleofMatewan, a shootout...
politicians were pro-union. Cabell Testerman, the mayor of the independent town ofMatewan was one supporter of the union cause. He appointed 27-year-old Sid Hatfield...
boiling point. The Paint Creek/Cabin Creek strike and the BattleofMatewan are two examples of hostilities during the Mine Wars. After Albert Sidney Hatfield...
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film dramatized the events of the BattleofMatewan, a coal miners' strike in 1920 in Matewan, a small town in the hills of West Virginia. He received...
John Sayles's film Matewan (1987), a dramatization of the life of Appalachian mining community in the 1920s and the BattleofMatewan. Following this, he...
throughout southern West Virginia, including the BattleofMatewan. The growing violence led to a declaration of martial law in 1921, and a Congressional investigation...
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sent on the train. After the BattleofMatewan, Sid Hatfield and Ed Chambers were summoned from the union stronghold at Matewan to answer minor strike-related...
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