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In 1921, Logan County, West Virginia, coal miners were non-union and worked long hours in dangerous conditions, paid for their own mining supplies, lived in houses owned by the coal companies and were paid per mined ton of coal in the coal companies' own currency called 'script' which could only be spent at the coal companies' owned stores.