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DANNY
Now it's clear from this parable that Jesus hadn't heard nothin about the union.

A rumble from the pews --

DANNY
If He was walking the earth today an seen the situation we got with these coal operators He'd of changed His tune.

HARDSHELL
Rising from his seat, incensed --

DANNY
…

We PAN to see Joe as he takes stage for the first time, wading into the midst of the miners, voice full of fire --

JOE
You want to be treated like men? You want to be treated fair? Well you aint men to that coal company, you're equipment, like a shovel or a gondola car or a hunk of wood brace. …

C.E.
Who wrote The Iron Heel?

JOE
Jack London.

SEPHUS
Where's Joe Hill buried?

JOE
All over the world. They scattered his ashes.

C.E.
Which eye is Big Bull Heywood missing?

Joe thinks for a moment, covers one of his eyes to check --

JOE
Left one.

SEPHUS
How'd Frank Littl…

MUSIC BEGINS as we ride toward the light at the end of the tunnel, the RATTLE of the gondola car beneath us. The VOICE of an old man, PAPPY, begins to reminisce --

PAPPY (VO)

Hit were 1920 in the southwest field and things was tough. The miners was trying to bring in the union to West Virgini…

Deep into the shooting schedule, when exhaustion was a memory and a kind of numbness had set in, we found ourselves out on a drizzly night with dozens of our local extras climbing the steep, slippery path to the driftmouth again and again. People were willing but very tired and it looked like the n…