Talk:West Virginia coal wars
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High powered rifles
[edit]Is there a reason that the term "high-powered rifles" is used repeatedly in the introduction? Given the numbers involved, and no mention of other rifles, I doubt they're anything particularly powerful. Totensiebush (talk) 18:22, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
- I came to this talk page driven by the same curiosity: what on earth are those “high-powered rifles”? --Filippof (talk) 18:43, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
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[edit]This page should be marked as a stub.
POV questionable
[edit]Hired goons? That is pretty biased. Rebelyell2006 (talk) 02:48, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
- Agreed. I've changed "hired goons" to "Baldwin-Felts detectives" as well as clarified that the minors involved were local. I'll also note that any Wikipedia article on the unionization movement in WV will like be biased towards the union and against the coal operators. That is in part because the sources that will be used are biased towards the union. When I was in school, our 8th grade WV history book painting the Baldwin-Felts and the company owners as villains. —Farix (t | c) 00:20, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
- No, those men were murdered, it is recorded as a historical fact. However, this article ia a POV and will be edited when I get to it. There are unbiased sources.....Ever try to look at the Mingo County Courthouse archives????Coal town guy (talk) 14:27, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
Dec 2017 Additions
[edit]Idk if anyone is paying much attention to this page, but I am adding some sections as part of a school project. Primarily, I am combining information on the coal wars as a whole, with sections for each eventKeatonH-NCF (talk) 02:03, 21 December 2017 (UTC)
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