CROSSWORD 001: THE WET INK AND THE RIFLE

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