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Jase Media Service Podcast
These Podcasts cover a variety of subjects within the history of labor such as Mother Jones and the gun battle in Virden Illinois. We work with labor museums such as the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum in Matewan W. Virginia, and the Friends of Mother Jones museum in Mt. Olive, IL. In addition, we work with Union Miner's Cemetery which is also located in Mt. Olive, IL. Plus, we create videos which can be found on YouTube under Jase Media Service or at https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jase+media+service The work we do is free so therefore we are a negative profit company. In our spare time, we promote worthy events by writing press releases and articles. We hope you enjoy our content!
Jase Media Service Podcast
Mother Jones and the 1898 gun battle in Virden Illinois
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James Goltz
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Season 1
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Episode 1
Book store owner and historian, John Alexander, recounts the circumstances leading up to the gun battle on October 12, 1898, between mine guards for the Chicago-Virden Coal Company and UMWA members who were locked out of their jobs. His perspective is of one who has spent their life in Virden and studied what actually happened there.