The photo has 12 men in it and next to the photo it states they are "Iron ore miners in the Wenonah area Wenonah I remember the 1934 strike. I joined The Mine,Mill and Smelters Union.I was there. Let me tell you about it. They killed two company men. Then the company sent and got the National Guard. The company officials tried to break up unionism. They would always travel in groups,the union got so strong. The officers had a log across the road to guard strikebreakers. The strikebreakers stayed up on the mountains for their safety. Everybody who worked paid union dues. You could join if you want, but they'll cut your dues anyway. Scabs didn't join the union. Company laws backed up scabs. Some people got hurt,some got killed. Most of em dead and gone now,but I'm here though. I'm telling you what I know,I was right there because I joined the Mine,Mill and Smelters Union. At the time being I had a maintainers job,you know. I could walk all through the scabs. National Guard didn't bother me,when they saw me coming they said,"He's got a maintainer's job that's old Streeter,don't bother him. I had the job going thru all the quarters killing the mosquitoes.. Kept down malaria disease. I went everywhere. Course I wasn't by myself though. The strikers tried to knock on me ,you know. They said, "he totes a big gun everyday,suppose to put him in jail." The National Guard said to me,"Don't shoot nobody." I said,"Nawsuh Captain." I went thru places they didn't allow nobody to go thru. When they saw me they say thats a maintainers man. Have to let him on by. It was right out there too. They brought in strikebreakers from the country. Lots of them were young black boys. I remember they come on the four o'clock train,on a Sunday evening. Just droves of them came. Them boys started to beating them and they ran and the officials got them. They didn't keep them long just overnight. And they had to send them back home. There was violence on all sides in the 1934 strike Clifford Streeter Wenonah Sept 1st 1883 The Bham Public School System goes into operation with J. H. Phillips as Superintendent Sept 7th 1920 A general strike of coal miners is called, continuing conflict with coal operators begun the previous year Sept 10th 1886 The first free mail delivery is made to residences in Bham Sept 11th 1920 The home of Eugene Morgan,a Wylam miner not participating in the current strike is dynamited Sept 14th 1911 Robert Jemison is billed 23.87 for the lighting of Glen Iris Park Sept 15th 1963 Four black girls- Addie Collins,Denise McNair,Carol Robertson and Cynthia Wesley-are killed by a dynamite blast at the 16th St Baptist Church Sept 17th 1900 Professor A. H. Parker opens the Industrial High School,the first high school for blacks in Bham. Sept 18th 1883 The Post Office Department changes the name of Wood's Station to Woodlawn Sept 19th 1901 An erroneous fire alarm results in a stampede causing 120 deaths at the Shiloh Baptist Church after a lecture by Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee