"We the miners of Tennessee will no longer permit convict labor to be leased into the mines to drive down our wages. We have torn down the stockades and freed the men. The Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company has used the state's prisoners as a club against the free workman. We demand the abolition of convict leasing." — Coal Creek Miners' Resolution, 1891
The episode resembled which other Gilded Age uprising?
- A
The 1894 Pullman Strike
- B
The 1900 anthracite strike
- C
The 1886 Haymarket affair
- Dcheck_circle
The 1892 Homestead Strike against private armed forces
Explanation
Like Homestead, Coal Creek pitted workers against company-aligned coercive forces; both involved armed worker resistance.