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Omaha Steve's Labor Group

Botany

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1. The coal companies owned you back in the day.

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Sun May 23, 2021, 11:56 PM

May 2021

They paid you in scrip. That was only good @ the company store so you wound up always in debt to the company
and before the interstate highways, bridges, better roads, and so on it was really hard to escape the area too.

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The coal companies owned you back in the day. Botany May 2021 #1

Absolutely, they also owned your home, ran the appalachiablue May 2021 #2

And in some cases "they" made sure that the gauge of the RxR tracks was good for hauling timber ... Botany May 2021 #3