Man on a Mission

Executive Albert Felts brought twelve Baldwin-Felts Detective Agents who came from Bluefield, West Virginia, to Matewan, West Virginia, to break up the strike using all means necessary. Sheriff Hatfield encouraged the miners to arm themselves when the detectives arrived in Matewan. Both Albert Felts and C. B. Cunningham had been involved in the violent and deadly Ludlow, Colorado, Strike six years earlier.

Baldwin-Felts Agents were now very well seasoned and learned many lessons about how to break up the strikes using violent tactics and intimidation methods. On this morning, the men were hard at work evicting people from their company-owned houses and forcibly removing mining families from the independent tent camp that had formed on Lick Creek for trying to unionize.

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