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Miner Mad About Pravda Photo Sparks Kentucky Family Ad
WHITESBURG Kentucky UMW strike era story follows Orville Sturgill a coal miner whose family sits in a one room cabin on two acres in Letcher County. Pravda caption Kentucky s Coal Miner 1959 prompts his anger over the portrayal as 7 000 miners out of work. He values freedom over wealth and notes the family lives on 30 dollars a week while they prepare to move into a new four room house built by neighbors and fellow miners.
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