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008			150117s1995 kyu ob 001 0 eng d
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020			_a9780813147888 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050	0	4	_aKF223 _b.C687 1995
049			_aNTA
245	1	0	_aThe court-martial of Mother JonesEdward M. Steel, Jr., editor.
260			_aLexington, Kentucky : _bUniversity Press of Kentucky, _c(c)1995.
300			_a1 online resource (340 pages)
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338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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520	0		_aIn March 1913, labor agitator Mary Harris "Mother" Jones and forty-seven other civilians were tried by a military court on charges of murder and conspiracy to murder - charges stemming from violence that erupted during the long coal miners' strike in the Paint Creek and Cabin Creek areas of Kanawha County, West Virginia. Immediately after the trial, some of the convicted defendants received conditional pardons, but Mother Jones and eleven others remained in custody until early May. This arrest and conviction came in the latter years of Mother Jones's long career as a labor agitator. Eighty-one and feisty as ever, she was able to focus national attention on the miners' cause and on the governor's tactics for handling the dispute. Over the course of seven months, more than two hundred civilians were tried by courts-martial. Only during the Civil War and Reconstruction had the courts been used so extensively against private citizens, and the trial raised a number of civil rights issues. The national outcry over Mother Jones's imprisonment led the United States Senate to appoint a subcommittee to examine mining conditions in West Virginia - the first Senate subcommittee ever appointed to investigate a labor controversy. Public sentiment eventually forced a release of the prisoners and brought about a settlement of the strike. In the face of this overwhelmingly adverse publicity, the governor suppressed publication of the trial transcript, and it was long thought to have been destroyed.
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600	1	0	_aJones, _cMother, _d1837-1930 _xTrials, litigation, etc.
650		0	_aStrikes and lockouts _xMiners _zWest Virginia.
650		0	_aCourts-martial and courts of inquiry _zWest Virginia.
610	2	0	_aUnited Mine Workers of America _xHistory.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
700	1		_aSteel, Edward M.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=938132&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell