Growing Anger in the Tent Cities

Growing Anger in the Tent Cities

So, in response, on May 17, 1920, the UMWA began setting up tent cities for their now-homeless members and sympathizers in an area named Lick Creek. Along the Tug River, there very quickly became a growing colony of unemployed, idle, angry, and homeless mass of miners. Even facing living in tents and being harassed, the numbers of those joining the union continued to grow with the numbers reaching close to 4,000 miners by early May. At the nearby Stone Mountain Coal Company, every single worker there had joined with UMWA and was therefore fired and evicted from their homes.

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