There Was Blood Summary

In the book ¨Blood Will Tell¨ it is about a girl who is named Marianna Chavez that went missing after knocking at a friends who is Hector, who apparently wasn't home. Marianna is only a 7- year old girl. Addition to this, there was SAR to search for the missing girl Marianna. Which SAR stand for search and rescue. In SAR a teenage boy named Nick Walker has developed through this book by many ways. For example, Nick´s father was a solider who died as a hero in Iraq when nick was only four, but as in result Nick´s mom was dead set against him ever joining so as in result of that he joined SAR. As the time passed Nick would vomit many times due to the incident of Marianna who got into conditional injuries. Including the choices he chose as being

In 1907, two miles south of Centralia, Illinois was the Centralia Mine No. 5. The Mine was there to provide coal during World War II. This particular mine employed 250 men and produced 2,000 tons of coal each day. During the next several years there were several complaints made regarding the safety of the mine. On March 25, 1947, the mine exploded, killing 111 miners. (Stillman, 2010)

The Amalgamated finally called for a strike when Frick announced another wage cut and gave the union two days to accept it. In response to the strike, Frick shit down the plant and called in guards from the Pinkerton Detective Agency (well-known strikebreakers) to enable the company to hire nonunion workers. The mere presence of the hated Pinkertons was enough to incite the workers to violence. As the Pinkertons approached the Homestead plant by river, strikers prepared for them by pouring oil on the water and setting it on fire and meeting the guards at the docks with guns and dynamite. The Pinkertons surrendered after several hours of pitched battle that left three guards and ten strikers dead, but the workers' victory was temporary. 8,000 National Guard troops were called in to protect the strikebreakers and production in the plant resumed. Public opinion turned completely against the strikers when a radical attempted to assassinate Frick. Defeated, strikers slowly drifted back to their jobs until Amalgamated had no choice but to surrender. Amalgamated membership shrank from 24,000 to 7,000, a decline symbolic of the general erosion of union strength as factory laborers became increasingly unskilled, and so increasingly easy to replace.

In the early 20th Century, West Virginia was a place where coal barons held immense power. Coal companies owned towns, mayors and governors. Miners were forced to live on coal camps and rent houses from them, as well as purchase all of their coal and other items required to survive from the companies. With this control, mining families where forced to live and work in brutal conditions. In 1921, after a generation of violent suppression, miners erupted in the largest class war in US history. For 5 days miners fought the coal barons, over 1 million rounds of ammunition were fired, this is known as the Battle of Blair Mountain.

By 1919, the largest nonunionized coal region in the United States was Mingo and Logan counties in West Virginia. In September 1919, rumors of miners being harassed and beaten for attending labor meetings reached Charleston. Around 5,000 miners met at Marmet, near Lens Creek, they prepared to go to Logan County. Since Governor John Cornwell was aware of the danger, he went to Marmet to convince the miners to go home. Almost all of the miners went home.

Before this conflict was caused, The wobbles had planned a public demonstration in everett that afternoon, to be held on the corner of hewitt and witmor, a spot usually used by street speakers the wobblies hoping to form one big union. The wobblies, traveled from seattle to everett aboard the stemsters verona and calista to support a strike by local shingle-weavers.”A group of citizens deputies under the authority of snohomish county sheriff Donald Mcrae, refused to let them land. A shot was fired followed by several minutes of gunfire that killed 5 wobblies and two deputies. 74 workers of the world returned to seattle here they were put in snohomish county jail.”

On April 20, 1914 a build up to tensions between union strikers and militia directed by the Rockefeller Coal Company came to a climax when the make shift town, called White City was attacked by militia. The Ludlow massacre was a build up of many different issues between the owners of the mines and the miners. Labor problems such as paternalism, lack of enforcement on current labor laws, and the slow recovery from the depression of 1890 all contributed to the actions of the Ludlow massacre in Colorado and the violence that was used after.

Just as one small spark can start a blazing wildfire, one simple bomb on the fateful day at Haymarket Square triggered an explosion in the labor movement that no one had expected. With tension growing exponentially in the workers’ rights area of United States reform in the 1800s, scattered riots inevitably broke out among restless workers, but no previous outbreak could compare to the impact of the notorious Haymarket Riot. The explosion in the crowd of workers battling police officers on that spring day in Chicago mirrored the explosion that occurred for laborers across the nation, with a combination of both beneficial and harmful outcomes to last the rest of history.

According to information recently gathered by historians, the men charged were by no means absolutely guilty, although it cannot be proved they were completely innocent. Throughout labor history, there were many strike, as well as many acts of violence committed by both the miners and the mine owners and bosses. Interestingly enough, none of this history is taught in many schools across the country.

n With Every of Blood by James Lincoln and Christopher Collier is a historicallLife is hard to change with the surroundings in a harsh environment for example iy accurate but fictional novel of a fourteen year old boy named Johnny who is from the South. Johnny isn’t from any regular Southern period in time. Johnny lives in the confederacy during the Civil War . This war lead to many deaths including Johnny’s father Pa which fueled Johnny to fight in the war but Pa asked Johnny if he would promise him he wouldn’t fight in the war, but out of dishonesty to his father’s word Johnny joined the war by teamstering as an impulsive action. Johnny really didn’t know what the real reason was behind the war. Then while carrying a load to Richmond Johnny was captured by black Union troops and Johnny doesn’t want to take orders from Cush a black soldier. Also Johnny grows a bond with Cush even though he hates negros but he learns to have feelings for Cush and they become loving friends.

Topic: This story is mainly about children who lived in towns with coal mines and what their life was like.And how the coal mines affected them.

After bloody Thursday union workers only grow stronger and banned together to fight for better rights for workers. John L. Lewis “Labor and the Nation,” proved what happens when people stick together and that there is strength in numbers. Men of the steel industry went through hell just for trying to organize workers to bargain for better rights “companies filled their plants with industrial spies, assembled depots of guns and gas bombs, established barricades, controlled their communities with armed thugs, leased the police power of cities and mobilized the military power of a state to guard them against the intrusion of collective bargaining within their plants”(Lewis 3). A lot of time strikers were beaten and killed for striking but that did not deter workers for fighting for better rights and unionizing. While the steel workers were being beaten the Committee of Industrial Organization was beginning to make strides in the right direction, many companies and plants began to negotiate practical work agreements (lewis 3). The steel workers sacrificed for the greater good of all workers just as the women in Flint Michigan did and the Maritime

The citizens in Central Appalachia are amongst the poorest in the country even thought they live in an area that is environmentally diverse and full of natural resources such as coal, timber and agriculture. The author of the book looks at the coal history of her hometown West Virginia and examines the impact of mining and mountain top removal has had on the region. Appalachia’s poverty rate is twice as high as any other region in United States. The regions are primarily country and the people are largely white with majority of the locals having roots that have been tied to the lands for generations. Burns talks about how one of the biggest issues facing the area and the main reason why all the money being made is not going to the people of the land for all these years is coal.

In Cold Blood, a non-fiction book based on the true story of Richard Hickock and the murders of the Herbert Cutter Family. The book focuses on the murders of the Herbert Clutter Family. The book looks into the psyche of the people who have committed murder.

I strongly believe that people should be educated about the December, 1907 3,000 coal mining deaths. In 2001 there were 42 coal mining deaths. All these deaths meant wives loosing husbands and sons. These deaths cause the lost of the bread winners in many house-holds; which, would later add to poverty and single parents.