‘A REMINDER OF WHY WE HAVE UNIONS’: MATEWAN WRITER AND DIRECTOR ON THE FILM’S LESSONS FOR THE LABOR MOVEMENT

John Sayles’s 1987 film, which dramatizes a 1920 labor conflict, shows how class solidarity can overcome prejudice When John Sayles, a student at Williams College taking time off from his summer factory job, was… At the time, miners were amid the wake of a contentious union election within the United Mine Workers of America.

Culture | The Guardian reports that john Sayles’s 1987 film, which dramatizes a 1920 labor conflict, shows how class solidarity can overcome prejudice When John Sayles, a student at Williams College taking time off from his summer factory job, was…

The report adds: At the time, miners were amid the wake of a contentious union election within the United Mine Workers of America.

Fierce tensions had led to the murder of union reform candidate Joseph Yablonski and his wife in December 1969.

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