Coal Dust on the Fiddle: Songs and Stories of the Bituminous Industry

xvi, 460 pp. 8vo. "In his previous book, Minstrels of the Mine Patch, Mr. Korson uncovered an entirely new field of American folklore - the songs and stories of the anthracite miners which had never been collected and printed before. He now adds an even richer record to our national literature in a similar volume devoted to the bituminous miners... This book is divided into three sections: life in a coal camp, which is veritably a world apart; work in the mines; and the story of the miner's long and bitter fight for improved working conditions. Each section gives a vivid description of the miner's environment, the details of his job, his lot in industrial society, with stories of several famous strikes leading up to complete unionization..."