The strike at Brookside Mine in Harlan county, Kentucky, was another crucial event in the region’s labor history and contributed to its legacy as Bloody Harlan. It began in July 1973 and ended in August 1974 when the Eastover Coal Company offered a contract to striking workers after a young miner, Lawrence Jones, was shot and killed by a mine supervisor. The national attention that Jones’s murder brought to the strike, which saw 90 arrests and dozens of acts of violence directed at the miners, helped to pressure Eastover to address workers’ demands.
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