West Virginia’s mine wars

Kleiner Ausflug in die US-amerikanische Geschichte: West Virginia’s mine wars, 1920-1921.

„On this day, 19 May 1920, a shootout took place in the town of Matewan, West Virginia between striking miners and the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency, who had arrived in town to evict miners’ families from their mountain encampment, in what would become known as the infamous ‘Battle of Matewan’. Seven Baldwin-Felts Detectives were killed as were two miners and one unarmed bystander.“

Man versteht auch die US-amerikanischen Waffengesetze besser.