The Blair Mountain Battlefield is the most important labor history site in America. It should be preserved and developed into a historic park.
Why is this important?
The 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain in West Virginia is the site of the largest armed uprising in American labor history, pitting 10,000 coal miners against a coal company army. My great-grandfather was one of the leaders of the uprising, later charged with treason for his role. Coal companies today want to destroy the site via the practice of mountaintop removal mining, which would blast away the entire site and erase the history of this struggle for unionism and civil liberties.
