Joe Kenehan
When do we get to Matewan?
Train conductor
You don't want to go there, mister. Ain't nothing but crazy people.
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Griggs Where'd you get that piece? Spanish War?
Foothill man 2 Nope. War Between the States.
Older Baldwin-Felts man Ever hear of the Hatfields and McCoys, son?
Young Baldwin-Felts man Heh. Sure I have have.
Older Baldwin-Felts man This here Matewan's their stompin' ground. They'll put a bullet in brain just as soon as look at you.
Joe Kenehan You think this man is the enemy? Huh? This is a worker! Any union keeps this man out ain't a union, it's a goddam club! They got you fightin' white against colored, native against foreign, hollow against hollow, when you know there ain't but two sides in this world - them that work and them that don't. You work, they don't. That's all you get to know about the enemy.
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