John Sayles’s 1987 film, which dramatizes a 1920 labor conflict, shows how class solidarity can overcome prejudice When John Sayles, a student at Williams College taking time off from his summer factory job, was hitchhiking during the summer of 1970 in West Virginia, it was often coal miners who ...
Source: [Guardian US](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/03/john-sayles-matewan-unions)