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During Unionization of Coal Company workers, miners' families were evicted from Company owned houses.  The Union supplied building material and land and the miners plus others constructed temporary barracks until the labor trouble was settled. Beside the barracks, there was room for small garden plots and here they are shown working in them. See New York Times Sunday Sept. 5th Picture Section.

13. Women Working in Garden at Barrack Village Near Fairmont, W. Va.

14. Striking Miners' Families during the Irwin Strike

15. Miners and Family Members Pose in the Mud Between Rows of Barracks

16. Children and Adults Outside Barracks

17. Family Dressed Up for Sunday School

Unidentified family with their pet in front of a house in Scott's Run, W. Va.

18. Family in Scott's Run, W. Va.

Miners crowd together with guns at side.

19. Miners Ready to Strike

Two women pumping water into a bucket beside a house.

20. Miner's Wives Pumping Water

Miners of the Zephyr mine and their wives and children are gathered in front of a Christmas tree. Circled in the photograph is Rush Meadows, a mining engineer and operator from Charleston, W. Va.

21. Miners and their Families Receive Christmas Hams and Presents from the Federal Consolidated Coal Company

Standing at the gate are Mother, Emma and Andy Oschlager.

22. Home of Turkey Knob Company Coal Miner, Turkey Knob, W. Va.