Matewan Page #8

We gotta take care of ourselves.

We got to take care

of each other.

Joe!. Joe! The men go to town.

See it?

No need for you

to be in on this.

It's my town too,

they're my people.

Y'all have no right to come to

this here town with all these

people and drawing guns and

terrorizing them.

The writs you have are

not valid for this town.

If you can't get one..

- NO!!!!!

Oh...

Jesus, don't shoot me.

I just wanted to talk.

I just wanted to talk.

I can't feel my legs.

"There was a trial but there

wasn't nobody going to pass

"guilty on Sid Hatfield

in Mingo county.

"Sid got married to mayor

Testerman's widow and then

"the Baldwins they

caught him unarmed

"walking up the steps of the

McDowell county court house.

"They shot 15 bullets into him,

"right in broad daylight and C.E.

Lively stepped in and put one

"right through his skull.

"Wasn't even a trial on that one.

"That was the start of the

great Coalfield War and us miners

"took the worst of it,

like Joe said we would.

"It's just one big union the

whole world over as Joe Kenehan

"used to say.

"And from the day of the Matewan

massacre that's what I preached.

"That was my religion.

"We buried Joe Kenehan

with our own.

"My mama she thought

he wouldn't never stay,

"but now he's with us for always,

"laying up here in these

West Virginia hills."

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