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You think this man is the enemy? Huh? This is a worker! Any union keep — Matewan

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"You think this man is the enemy? Huh? This is a worker! Any union keeps this man out aint a union, its a goddam club! They got you fightin white against colored, native against foreign, hollow against hollow, when you know there aint but two sides in this world - them that work and them that dont. You work, they dont. Thats all you got to know about the enemy."
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Matewan is a town in Mingo County, West Virginia, United States at the confluence of the Tug Fork River and Mate Creek. The population was 412 at the 2020 census, down from 499 in 2010. The Norfolk Southern Railway's Pocahontas District passes through the town. It was a key site of the Coal Wars and the location of the Battle of Matewan in 1920.

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