coal miners and company scrip

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  The Ludlow Massacre: Mine Workers, Unions, and Corporate Power

  2023107 · Miners were "paid" in company scrip, which mining officials claimed reduced the dangers of transporting cash to the mines, but scrip could only be used at company stores where prices were greatly inflated. Miners were always in debt to the company, and children were often forced to work alongside their fathers to repay this debt.

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  Scrip, Bandannas, and a Canary

  202291 · Scrip became a way of life for the coal miners and their families. A different sort of barter took place in the coal field communities. When coal companies opened new mining operations in unpopulated districts, they usually built houses to rent to their workers. They also built stores to sell workers the food and household products they needed.

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  Through the Lens (Story of Mine Scrip) - Wetzel Chronicle

  202254 · But somewhere along the line, unscrupulous mine owners began to realize they could control their employees with scrip. Miners would become indebted to the company store. That was likely to happen in the back hollows of the hills. In fact, some company stores made more profit from the stores, than the coal from the mine.

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  George's Creek Coal and Iron Company history

  After acquiring Georges Creek Coal and Iron Company scrip, which was used in Farmington, West Virginia, from 1903 - 1909, I became curious about the company and coal mining in western Maryland.

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  Life A way from the Mine in Oklahoma's Coal Towns

  201513 · The communities that developed in association with southeastern Oklahoma's nascent coal mining industry in the early 1870s were classic company towns. Few amenities existed in these company towns designed to provide only for the miner's basic needs. The two primary institutions in Oklahoma's coal mining com munities were …

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  The Scrip System | Harlan Coal Scrip

  The Scrip System. How Scrip Machines Work. The system used two machines. The first was used in the company office and it issued the scrip to the employee. The second is a scrip register used in the company store. Joe Miner goes into the scrip office and asks for $3 in scrip. Jim Clerk checks to see if Joe has some hours of pay coming to him.

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