It's coal mining that concerns this RKO Screenliner short, not Huey Newton or Bobby Seale. At a time when coal was still a major source of power and a necessity for milling steel, this film discusses and shows the operation of coal mines and the people around them: not the owners who grow wealthy, but the people who work in the mines and their families.
Like many of the Screenliner shorts that RKO produced, it seems more like an industrial film than an entertainment one. It says nothing of the labor unrest that made the United Mine Workers for decades the most radical of the labor unions. Instead it talks about all the things the coal companies do for their employees.
Like many of the Screenliner shorts that RKO produced, it seems more like an industrial film than an entertainment one. It says nothing of the labor unrest that made the United Mine Workers for decades the most radical of the labor unions. Instead it talks about all the things the coal companies do for their employees.
