WVOW News MATEWAN The Matewan Massacre Drama will take place this Saturday. The event is part of the Matewan Heritage Day. The drama brings to life the shootout out between Baldwin-Felts agents and striking coal miners attempting to unionize. Director of the drama, Donna Paterino says the drama re enactment has been running for more than two decades. “The Matewan Massacre Reenactment group has been together for 23 years and we missed the one year due to COVID but this make 22 years,” Patterino
This week in history: May 17-23
16 May 2021
Striking German workers in the 1990s.
On May 20-22, 1996, nearly two weeks of protest strikes against German Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s plans for $32 billion in cuts in the welfare state culminated in three days of mass action.
Involving over 100,000 public sector workers in the OTV union and 60,000 members of IG Metall, the strikes hit postal services, refuse collection and public transport in many major cities Cologne, Bonn, Berlin, Dusseldorf, Leverkusen, Bochum, Hanover, Leipzig, Weimar, Magdeburg and others. Hospital workers cut back services in Thuringia and Saxony. In Brandenburg, traffic on rivers and canals was disrupted by striking lock operators.