Matewan
- PG-13
- Year:
- 1987
- 135 min
- 1,896 Views
Damn!
Shootin' coal!
Shootin' coal!
Danny! What in god's name
are you doing?
I got a shot set up back there.
Word come down from Turley.
Tonnage rate?
They brung it down
to 90 cent a ton.
Down!?
Them dagoes are
holding fast in #3.
He says, "Take it or leave it."
Sephus, what we gonna do?
"Hit were 19 and 20
in the southwest field
and things was tough."
"The miners was trying to bring
the union to West Virginia...
and the coal operators and their
gun thugs was set on keeping 'em out."
"Them was hand loadin' days, they
paid you by the ton and they didn't
care no more for a man than
they done for a draft mule."
Them was hard people, your
coalminers then.
They wudn't nobody
you wanted to cross."
"So push come to shove and pretty
soon we had us a war down there
in Mingo County,
which in them days
was known as 'bloody Mingo'."
"And that's where it all came
to a head, there on Tug Fork,
in the town of Matewan."
We done it Mama,
we're gonna have the union!
- Just gotta stop for a little repairs.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
- They shifted Italians in, right off the boat,
so they're still bring coal outa there.
I'd sure hate to get
a whiff of that mine.
What the hell we stopping for?
Step down gentleman, this
here'll be your new home.
How come we ain't
getting off in town?
- Just get in line.
I'n gonna kill him!, kill him!
Get on the train! Get on!
C'mon, Bill!
Come on! Come on, Bill!
Gimme your hand, man.
- Git out of here!
When do we get to Matewan?
- You don't want to go there mister,
ain't nothing but crazy people.
Hi
Hi
Everybody was here,
then they got word
and they gone on
up the line a ways.
Some kind of union bizness.
Yeah, I saw.
My name's Bridey Mae Tolliver.
Uh, Joe Kenehan.
Uh, you know
Radnor's Boarding House?
- Big white house.
Right on past the coal dock,
she's a real sourpuss, though...
Elma Radnor.
Thank you.
You gonna be in town long?
It depends.
I'll see you around.
I hope so.
are to be considered a loan
from the Stone Mountain Coal Company.
Their costs will be deducted
from you first month's pay.
Tool-sharpeners provided by the
company's 25 cents a month.
Use of the wash house
is 75 cents a month.
Medical doctor provided by the company
is 2 dollars a month,
special procedures extra.
Your train ride here provided
by the company will be deducted
from your first month's pay.
Your pay will be
issued as company script,
redeemable for all goods and services
at the Stone Mountain
Company Store.
Purchases of any items available
at the Company Store
- What's to keep y'all
from jacking up them
prices at your store?
Name?
Johnson, they calls me
'Few Clothes'.
Powder, fuses, lamps, head gear
and all appropriate clothing will be
available at the Company Store,
generously advance you a month's
supply of these items,
payment to be deducted.
I'm going to take you over
to camp now where you'll be livin'.
There's some Italian gentleman
that are very eager to meet you.
Rentals will be
for one room, 250 a month.
Company rule, no more than
two people to one room,
children included.
Electricity, where
that is feasible,
will be 1 dollar a month.
Mrs. Radnor?
Yes.
My name is Joe Kenehan.
I'm going to be
in town for a bit and
your place here was recommended.
What do you do?
Uh, I guess I'm looking for work.
You with the Company?
The company?
- If you ain't with the Company,
there ain't no work.
Look mister, don't act the lamb with me.
What's your business here?
- Mama!
- Mama, it's Hillard! Them scabs
done it, up the line a mile...
They was all coloured this time,
they bust his nose!
You got any ice?
- Some in the back.
Go fetch me two chunks about this big
and a piece of rag.
You a doctor?
- No, but I seen my share
of broken noses.
Now just put it up in the air, buddy,
just like your watching
the clouds.
We'll get that bleeding stopped.
I ga my liggid...
Say what?
- He said he got his licks in.
Seems to be all the men around here
care about, wives and kids are starving,
so long as they've
It's just frustration, is all
when you can't take
care of them you care about.
I know, it ain't their fault.
Here you go.
This freezes up all
It's just so they close up and they
don't let any more blood out.
You a doctor?
No.
I'm just a guy
looking for a place to stay.
5 dollars a week cash.
That includes dinner and clean sheets.
Hope I'm not making a mistake.
Name is Joe Kenehan.
- Well, mostly I work
for the railroads, laying track.
Kansas, Missouri...
I went out west for a bit
A little of whatever
pays an honest dollar.
I'm a coalminer. At least
until we come out I was.
Had me over in section 3.
I was a trapper boy.
Ain't you a little young?
- I'm almost 15.
There are some in there
younger than me.
I work mostly on
running this place.
I help a little, don't I?
It's gonna be a long one.
That superintendent
one union sumbitch so much as step
into his coalmine.
- Danny...
Sorry, ma'am, but
that's what he said.
Daniel is a preacher.
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