Forty-six years ago, 18-year-old Billy Green put aside his school books at small Coshocton, Ohio and went down into the inky bowels of the Morgan Run Coal Mine to make a living. Like 50 other miners who dug Morgan Run coal, he soon carried a United Mine Workers card in his overalls. When Morgan Run coal was exhausted in 1922, Billy Green was one of the few members of the Morgan Run local who was not thrown out of work. Billy had gone above ground some 20 years before and was rapidly climbing...
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