In response, the Burnwell Coal and Coak Company fired all of the now-unionized mine workers,. The Company gave them three days to vacate all of their company-owned housing. The Companies would hire private detectives and public law enforcement agents to ensure that all unions were kept out of their towns.

The coal operators and their paid enforcers would use intimidation, harassment, beatings, murder, and espionage to drive home the point that union men would not be tolerated. Their most common practices to block the unions from their coal towns were to fire all union sympathizers, blacklist all of those known to be a part of the union, and evicting all union members from their homes.


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