COVER PHOTO: Olin R. Ruth (with straw boater) and a contingent of armed guards are pictured at a Farmington mine, ca. 1920. Privately hired guards figured prominently in West Virginia labor's efforts to organize. In many ways, these guards represent the clash of established authority with new social and political ideas. [Olin R. Ruth Collection, West Virginia State Archives, Charleston, WV]
"Eugene V. Debs
in West Virginia, 1913: A Reappraisal"
By Roger Fagge
"`Committee Condemns W. Va. Mine Owners': Debs, Germer and Berger Report"
"Debs's Visit
Challenged in Historical Interpretation"
By David A. Corbin and Roger Fagge
"The Death of
Constable Riggs: Ethnic Conflict in Marion County in the World War
I Era"
By Charles H. McCormick
"When the
Socialists Ran Star City"
By Stephen Cresswell
"Conflict at Coal
River Collieries: The UMWA vs. the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers"
By Thomas J. Robertson and Ronald L. Lewis
"`The Nearly
Perfect State': Governor Homer Adams Holt, the WPA Writers' Project
and the Making of West Virginia: A Guide to the Mountain
State"
By Jerry B. Thomas
"Labor-Management
Conflict in the Eastern Panhandle: Perfection Garment Company
Battles the ILGWU"
By Jerra Jenrette
"A Struggle for
Recognition: Marshall University Students for a Democratic Society
and the Red Scare in Huntington, 1965-1969"
By John Hennen