The Battle of Blair Mountain

[@dhickson79]

I had to take a college course on U.S. history to even learn about this pivotal moment in time as the schools don't teach us about this. Nice short documentary.

[@russelljames5631]

Curious? Your here from Vaush?

[@dhickson79]

@@russelljames5631 Yes, my friend put me onto Vausch a couple weeks ago and I like many topics that he covers so far.

[@SierraKiloBravo]

You got me curious now - what’s “Vaush”?

[@russelljames5631]

@@SierraKiloBravo he’s a KZbinr he was discussing Amazon unionization and he brought up this battle which is probably why a lot of people came onto this video.

[@SierraKiloBravo]

Oh that’s really interesting! Thanks for the info :-)

[@sandywaves3999]

Here to educate my coworkers why company towns are evil in reference to Amazon's new company towns.

[@Detroittruckdoctor55]

How about ending Amazon and bringing back small bussinessmen?

[@Ernest_XX]

@@Detroittruckdoctor55 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼🚩🚩🚩

[@WM-gf8zm]

@@Detroittruckdoctor55 because its not long term economically possible. monopolies are natural under capitalism

[@sevenheadedweasel]

@@WM-gf8zm That sounds like a bug in capitalism. Let's not do that.

[@WM-gf8zm]

@@sevenheadedweasel its how capitalism works.

[@moonboy2639]

Thank you for this video. My grandfather and his father where involved with coal towns. It was slavery just not on paper. My grandfathers brother was shot by a coal company mercenary.

[@TyranyFighterPatriot]

Fascinating! Thanks for sharing.

[@Cyanidal187]

In 2021 once again the American working class needs to unite against the predatory corporate elites!

[@DM-mi4je]

Yes the working class must unite against the socialist blight.

[@ive_mclost_my_account_oh_n2566]

@@DM-mi4je Socialist blight? I dunno man, socialists are the one fighting off the companies from stealing our constitutional freedoms. Companies are like giants, they lower our wages and stomp out rebellion with their money and their lousy goons.

[@ive_mclost_my_account_oh_n2566]

@@DM-mi4je "Will you be a lousy scab or will you be a man?"

[@DM-mi4je]

@@ive_mclost_my_account_oh_n2566 then why do all the big companies support Socialism and socialist causes? Why did the working class support Trump?

[@ive_mclost_my_account_oh_n2566]

@@DM-mi4je Well, Companies like to get on the bandwagon for every single thing that people seem to like. Just because companies make shirts and socks with the LGBTQ+ flag on it doesn't mean that they support it. Companies are literally two faced bastards who'll follow the money where it goes, they make things that'll trick people into thinking that they're "woke" and "hip with the masses"

[@youtubecensorsmycomments8036]

My kin folk will never forget what one can do when we all UNITE! Time is coming on the mass scale hope the rest are ready for what all Americans will have to UNITE! Good luck and GOD SPEED...

[@cayluhb1113]

Appalachian pride baby!

[@KB-jr9bd]

Thank you mister Australian Review Man for this really well done video on this topic

[@SierraKiloBravo]

Cheers mate!

[@commondognut]

Holy shit why is this the first time I’m hearing of this?

[@johnydsmithson6834]

"Which side are you on, bois?" When the policing forces are guns for hire and you're a slave to elite, the constitution has your back...

[@paulkelly7784]

Yeah corporations. Let's not forget that. The American government saved you from this and many other labor issues.

[@davidmartinez688]

@@paulkelly7784 It didn't, the government put down the workers' rebellion in Blair Mountain, and the Communists, Anarchists and Unions forced them to change

[@christianhudspeth3338]

@@paulkelly7784 no the american people did in this instance.

[@amckittrick7951]

​@paulkelly7784 yeah the American government that strikes down legal strikes. Ask the poor rail fellas what happened in Ohio.

[@baneofbanes]

@@paulkelly7784the government sided with the corporations more often than not.

[@toddwebster1093]

very few people here in US know a out this outside of Appalachia coal country

[@burninsherman1037]

May the spirit of Blair mountain inspire us going forward. With shit like company towns coming back, and unions being even more explicitly suppressed than they had been for some time, the workers of America need to be ready to stand up for ourselves by whatever means is necessary. Solidarity, brothers and sisters.

[@mikehamer1091]

Funny how the hatfields are such a prominent name in rebellion/feuds in American history never noticed until now

[@QT5656]

100 years ago to the day since the official start date of the Battle of Blair Mountain.

[@Sophie-mv7bd]

The bosses need the workers but the workers dont need the bosses

[@hobochroniclesteching]

In 9th grade and this is the first time I have heard about this

[@thecpmr6276]

I'm incredibly pissed I didn't learn about this in school.

[@Daniel-dn2ot]

well you are not supposed to see the bad side of your system.

[@fkujakedmyname]

thats what happens when nazis teach fake history like in America

[@thecpmr6276]

@@fkujakedmyname That's....not true. Not in my experience. I learned plenty of horrible things about my country, as well as others. I'm just a bit angry we didn't go over this in particular.

[@JohnSmith-nh2te]

@@thecpmr6276 you learned the things that could be easily explained away, not stuff that would shake someone enough to change their beliefs

[@libertyordeath9414]

Definitely ain’t the first time Americans back then had a standoff like this in those times.

[@rishnayak4692]

Which Side Are You On?

[@fa1con730]

The miners, you can’t seriously side with an enslaving company who didn’t give two fucks about its workers.

[@rishnayak4692]

@@calebking1608 it's a question I ask to the World Proletariat

[@JimboobSherwood]

@@fa1con730 it’s the name of a song about this event .

[@Stavol2Dual]

Miners

[@bumpygumpson]

I'm a company man.

[@Captain_Yogurt]

Maybe I’m dumb but at 1:23 did we see the folks in the elevator get crushed by that chain, cause it looked like an uncontrolled fall

[@ssg9offical]

It might happen again one day. history rarely repeats it self but it mostly does rhyme.

[@allialias]

Oct. 2021: Ten thousand workers at John Deere Tractors are on STRIKE!!!

[@MrSimonmcc]

History repeats itself quite often actually.

[@Daniel-dn2ot]

its kinda the other way around,but good try

[@MrPolandball]

I don’t think it ever will. Times changed and an average soy consuming fat American is too spineless and dumb to stand up for anything other than not knowing what gender is.

[@jpitt300]

The thing is, NOTHING really happens here in west virginia, so this unexpected but a welcome suprise.

[@sawesomesauce867]

When amazon talks about the amazon towns

[@bl1tz533]

Lets do it again

[@manondanon4860]

today these people are called "corporate security"

[@_ZimZam]

Nice

[@allegoryofdissonance]

What might come soon will make this event look like a rock-throwing war.

[@peskifrenchi8832]

Which side are you on, boys?

[@willchittom2690]

People Used this incident to support socialist's or communist government for America, but weren't the workers fighting all non-communist?

[@jenikasmith809]

Which coal companies were involved? I had to do some DIGGING just to find that the coal was *likely* owned by the C&O Railroad company - is this accurate?

[@eseoghenetuoyo1357]

Demon copperhead brought me here

[@user-si1wp4wq8n]

What’s the song at the end?

[@SierraKiloBravo]

Song: Blair Mountain Artist: Great American Taxi Album: Paradise Lost Link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a4vRq6WwdtmSjc0

[@user-si1wp4wq8n]

@@SierraKiloBravo Thanks man

[@gabemoore2840]

You wont learn about this in public school

[@johnbrown2163]

World wide problem when you can hire people and call them Police to have special powers and be Human Rights Violators.

[@Daniel-dn2ot]

ah yes,the beauties of unchecked capitalism...

[@mr.happyfunguy3772]

“Labor for us or die and let’s continually shoot up your home and kill conspirators to keep you under our thumb” sounds like something out of the Joseph Stalin handbook!

[@birdjims4788]

@@mr.happyfunguy3772 sounds like something American companies have been doing before the birth of Stalin

[@lector-dogmatixsicarii1537]

@@birdjims4788 Small reminder that US capitalists funded the Soviet Union start to finish. The blood of the USSR is on American hands. Different names, same cosmopolitans. If anyone wonders why we backed the Soviet pillaging of Eastern Europe prior to and during WWII, it was because of them. Same Cosmopolitans that controlled Churchill, the one responsible for getting scores of Brittons killed.

[@willchittom2690]

The Beauties' of the Constitution to stop a Oppressive Capitalism and make a good Capitalist's country's...

[@Waldemarvonanhalt]

I wonder if Milton Friedman ever talked about this event?

[@GMEOK]

Another example of keeping your guns and not trusting the gov't Athens Tn. O hey, how about when we told the Amercian Indians, give us your guns we will take care of you. Yea how did that work out for them.

[@leslielively3092]

Where simple mountain folk we don’t protest a lot but oh when we do….

[@wokewoke]

What a glorious use of the 2nd Amendment

[@inquisitordave2751]

Which side are you on boys which side are you on?

[@satevo462]

How Americans think they are free will never makes sense to me. We are all wage slaves. Period.

[@manic2360]

..Eat the Rich...

[@elicovington1484]

I appreciate it , but why is an Aussie telling us our history??? Where are we?!!

[@knightlypoleaxe2501]

Repressed by the rich. We don't know about this because then most Americans would not support billionaires.

[@johnbrown2163]

Glad our Story is being told. I didn't know about this act of Terrorism.

[@moonboy2639]

Because if they taught it we would realize the games they are playing. The word redneck came from coal miners trying to get a union so they would wear red bandanas around their necks. Black, white, immigrant they all stood together.

[@mr.happyfunguy3772]

@@knightlypoleaxe2501 I disagree. However, I do believe we would stick tighter to our guns, and I do believe we would hold more dearly our protections, rights and freedoms. I think there is more to what you’re saying than meets the eye, but there is my reaction to what I read, nay what I inferred.

[@Emilia-gw8so]

John Brown who’s the terrorist? The ones shooting at civilian houses or the ones fighting back against their oppressors?

[@bill358]

I used to dig up script in my front yard lol

[@Pencilvester-u2t]

Come all of you good workers good new to you I'll tell of how the good old union has come in here to dwell.

[@halops117]

we think EA is bad.... these guys are the worst

[@Detroittruckdoctor55]

There is no more coal, no more coal burners. What are you gonna do force a uprising at McDonald's?

[@williamhess6783]

Newest estimates on the American coal reserves.....about 100 years. And that's the easily mined coal.....