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Family standing in front of a wooden barrack.
Men, women, and children standing on hillside in Tunnelton, W. Va.
Group of women and children standing outside barracks.
Children holding signs in the street.
Children with two women and a man.
A group of unidentified miners and their families posing for a picture.
During Unionization of Coal Company workers, miners' families were evicted from Company owned houses.  The Union supplied building material and land and the miners plus others constructed temporary barracks until the labor trouble was settled. Beside the barracks, there was room for small garden plots and here they are shown working in them. See New York Times Sunday Sept. 5th Picture Section.