Happy Labor Day!

[WinoBlues]

I won't go near CNN or MSNBC and I dropped FOX when they got into the book business. Even the cameraman has a book out by now.

About all I've got left are Bugs Bunny reruns.

Most of the stuff I watch has a left and right view. Or is an interview format.
Not big on echo chamber.

 

[DayTimer]

Coal mine, Scranton, PA

 

[shonceman]

Coal mine, Scranton, PA

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My grandpa and his brother (my Great Uncle Bill) were "breaker boys" at a West Virginia mine. They separated slate and other impurities out of the pile of coal as it came off the conveyor. As I recall, they were 6 and 8 years old. Extremely dangerous - boys were sometimes killed when they didn't get out of the way of the load fast enough.

 

[WinoBlues]

I watched a couple documentaries on mines and early unions in the Appalachians years ago. I think it was on the migration of the Irish immigrants. Hard hard life.

 

[rmhaire]

My grandpa and his brother (my Great Uncle Bill) were "breaker boys" at a West Virginia mine. They separated slate and other impurities out of the pile of coal as it came off the conveyor. As I recall, they were 6 and 8 years old. Extremely dangerous - boys were sometimes killed when they didn't get out of the way of the load fast enough.

Not a lot of mines down here in south Georgia so I don't have any relatives that worked in one.

But a few of my In-Laws are trolls ... they live under a bridge.