Killing for coal: America's deadliest labor war

Introduction: civil war, red and bloody

A dream of coal-fired benevolence

The reek of the new industrialism

Riding the wave to survive an earth transformed

Dying with their boots on

Out of the depths and on to the march

The quest for containment

Shouting the battle cry of union.

Introduction: civil war, red and bloody

A dream of coal-fired benevolence

The reek of the new industrialism

Riding the wave to survive an earth transformed

Dying with their boots on

Out of the depths and on to the march

The quest for containment

Shouting the battle cry of union.