Across
- 3. The West Virginia town where police chief Sid Hatfield engaged in a deadly street shootout to protect union miners from detectives.
- 5. Worthless company currency used to trap coal miners in perpetual debt to the company store.
- 7. The type of canvas colony evicted miners were forced to build in the freezing winter.
- 8. Henry Clay ____. The brutal steel executive who ordered the 1892 lockout and built a three-mile sniper fence around the mill.
- 12. The 1892 Pennsylvania steel strike where workers violently repelled two barges of armed mercenaries.
Down
- 1. The capital charge leveled against union leaders after the Coal Wars to ensure they died in prison.
- 2. The West Virginia mountain where ten thousand armed miners fought the largest labor uprising in US history.
- 4. The type of rapid-fire machine gun mounted on armored trains by coal operators to terrorize tent colonies.
- 6. Private detective agency hired by corporations to infiltrate unions and shoot strikers.
- 9. The billionaire steel baron who fled to a Scottish castle while his private army slaughtered his workers.
- 10. The 1914 Colorado massacre where the National Guard machine-gunned and burned a miner tent colony, killing women and children.
- 11. The origin term for a striking union miner, derived from the crimson bandanas they wore to identify friend from foe.
