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Group plans map of state's labor history
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West Virginia's labor history will be chronicled in a map for
distribution to eighth-grade students, libraries and other
educational sites this fall.
The West Virginia Labor History Association is seeking public
nominations for the map, which will show the locations and
descriptions of 20 to 25 events, said Steve Fesenmaier, an
association board member.
Perhaps the map could include the Depression-era Hawks Nest tunnel
in Fayette County, where hundreds of workers died in silica-choked
passageways; and the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain, the culmination
of a bloody struggle to unionize the ...
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