Coal Miners Face Starvation as Mine Owners Try to Crush Union

In the depths of West Virginia, a humanitarian crisis is unfolding. Tens of thousands of coal miners and their families are on the brink of starvation as mine owners attempt to crush the United Mine Workers of America. Lawrence Dwyer, an international board member of the union based in Beckley, West Virginia, has traveled to New York to beg for help from organized labor.