Name/Title
Facts About the Two Armed Marches on LoganEntry/Object ID
KK.M008Secondary Title
Factual events leading up to, and relating incidents of this insurrection of organized labor to penetrate Logan County's unorganized coal fields that required Federal troops to quell the battles between opposing factions.Description
History pamphlet summarizing the events leading up to, and during, the Battle of Blair Mountain from a perspective of fealty to Don Chafin and dismissive of the union and mining labor conditions.Context
Exhibited with other pro-industry, anti-union publications from 1922 and after.Collection
Publications on ExhibitPublication Details
Publication Type
BookletAuthor
George T. SwainEdition
FirstPublisher
Ace EnterprisesDate Published
1962Printer
Jones Printing CompanyDate Printed
1962Notes
Jones Printing Company lists a union bug under their name on the title page.Inscription/Signature/Marks
Type
Union BugLocation
inside front page, bottom centerTranscription
Allied Printing Trades Council
Charleston, W.VA.Exhibition
From Treason to TriumphInterpretative Labels
Label Type
Cultural/Historical ContextLabel
Pamphlets, George Swain, 1962
Company propaganda distributed in the wake of the Battle of Blair
Mountain, and for many years after, ignored many of the root causes of the
conflict and portrayed the miners as ignorant hillbillies swayed by Bolsheviks.
collection of Kenneth KingResearch Notes
Research Type
CuratorPerson
Shaun SliferDate
Dec 19, 2020Notes
Content in this booklet may be pulled all, or in part, from Swain's 1927 A History of Logan County. This booklet was published eight years after Chafin's death.
