Revolutionary Film Series: Matewan
Mingo County, West Virginia, 1920. Coal miners, struggling to form a union, are
up against company operators and gun thugs; Black and Italian miners, brought in by the company to break the strike, are caught between the two forces. Union activist and ex-Wobbly Joe Kenehan, sent to help organize the union, determines to bring the local, Black, and Italian groups together. Drawn from actual events.
Running Time: 142 minutes
To be followed by discussion.
Sponsored by The Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE) and the Young Socialists at Umass (YS).
