And it's gotten out in a primitive and almost medieval manner that's so much at variance with the modern age of technology. You couldn't mine coal through some sort of automated Henry Ford assembly line process. Coal was a cottage industry and these miners remained, in their habits, customs and ideas and ideal, they remained throw-backs, in a sense. They were individualistic and they went at their work in a very individualistic manner, yet at the same time they had this sense of cooperation, this feeling for one another. And that was being lost as you begin to have a salaried working force.
Mining still remains a very old-fashioned industry in the way miners go about their work.
They control their tools. They control their work place. They have an independent intransigent spirit. They don't take orders very easily. They don't make good husbands.