The United Mine Workers used the 1931 wage reduction as a springboard for organizing in Harlan County. The operators fought back, however, and used spies to ferret out union sympathizers. Hundreds of men were fired and then evicted for wanting to join the UMW. Most of the displaced workers moved to Evarts, one of the three noncompany towns in Harlan County, and it soon became a center of union agitation. William B. Jones,.....
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