1920 wages
If you worked in a southern ohio coal mine in 1920 the company paid 10 cents per ton delivered to the serface. It had to be all quality coal. A young man in his 20-s could do 40 ton a day on his belly 8-10 hours. They could not work every day due to mine conditions and lost many a day work and had to work sat-sunday to make up lost pay. Many miners died due to all the hassards of the job. The mine opperated three shifts and was very unsafe. It was a job that would feed your family and they were few. The cost of living was high, after paying for company housing and company store bill, doctor bills ect. few of these guys if any perchased parker guns! But the man who owned the mine and the co. store he could afford a parker!, on the backs of them working men! He lived on a large estate up high on the hill above the city well seperated from the working men. He also hob knobed with the social eletes and polititions of the day. Now thats perspective! Today working class america is being forced to compete with off shore sweat shop labor from the likes of comunist china! Do you think store clerksIt will be buying the parkers of our time?....I think not! The working class better dump them demicrats couse they don't work for you any more! Sorry but its true! The ones running things have become WOLD CLASS SOCIALISTS...It is time for change.
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