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Fifteen Militant supporters went to mine portals and elsewhere in West Virginia last weekend, selling 60 copies, six subscription renewals, and two introductory subs, reported Ryan Scott, a coal miner in southwestern Pennsylvania. “A team I was part of met with four students near West Virginia University in Morgantown,” said Jay Ressler, also a coal miner and UMWA member. “Three of them were already getting the paper and decided to re-subscribe. They said they admire the Militant because of its uncompromising, working-class point of view. One of them bought the book Our History Is Still Being Written.” At the same time, Militant supporters in Utah sold about 100 copies of the last issue and a dozen subscription renewals. “Many working people want to talk about why most of the mines here are nonunion and what can be done to organize them,” said Alyson Kennedy. Joel Britton reported the following: “An older woman walked right up with her dollar, while we were selling the paper outside the post office in Price, and said, ‘I am really mad about what the coal companies are doing. I’ve always been for the union, and that’s what I tell the younger ones today. And when - more available