MD Union Labor and Christ's Green Resurrection

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Many people in the mining industry held to a belief that bad luck
follows
those who work during the Easter season. In 1893 Easter was celebrated
on April 2. The following day, a mine flood in Laurel Hill claimed the
lives
of three men. Many others narrowly escaped. Years earlier, also on
Easter
Monday, 10 men died in a cave-in at Raven Run. Unrelated to the
superstition was a dynamite explosion that occurred at the Silver Brook
Colliery, south of McAdoo, in 1896. The blast killed six men.

http://www.standardspeaker.com/history/mishaps.htm

I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine
I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine
I loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal
And the straw boss said "Well, a-bless my soul"

If you see me comin', better step aside
A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died
One fist of iron, the other of steel
If the right one don't a-get you, then the left one will

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

"Why, the Collier sailors belive 'tis bad luck...?" Dixohn replies..."it
being the day of Christ's Execution."   MD.26

"All thah' Coal-Mining, I guess." MD.42

He doesn't fancy or imagine, but guess.