https://www.wvhistoryonview.org/catalog/003663https://www.wvhistoryonview.org/image/003663.jpgBarracks at Irona with 1917 Scale Protest Sign, Irona, W. Va.ca. 1917Coal miners--Labor unions--West Virginia--Irona.Coal Mines and Mining--Strikes--Bittner Collection.Coal miners--Dwellings--West Virginia--Irona.Sign on side of building reads, 'The 1917 scale means starvation wages, slavery conditions [and] sacrafice of honor to coal miners.'West Virginia History OnView