Mr. Casey was born 39 years ago in a company-owned house in a steel-manufacturing Birmingham suburb.

During the Westmoreland County Coal Strike of 1910-1911, miners were evicted from company-owned houses, which were used to house strikebreakers, predominantly southern Blacks.

They lived in company-owned boarding houses, and attended churches supported by the companies.

The Monaco slowed to almost walking pace, and it was ten minutes more before they reached the company-owned house on the outskirts of Kitchenerville.

For families of plant workers living in company-owned houses adjacent to the property, the blast meant anxious moments - in some cases, hours - before learning of the whereabouts and conditions of loved ones.

Even as Ella and her three siblings enjoyed the comforts of a company-owned house with three stories and a vast fruit orchard, they "were born with Socialism," Ella later said, "like drinking mother's milk."

Hicky and Griggs then start their campaign against the union by forcibly evicting miners from company-owned houses in town.

In the early 1900s company-owned houses, boarding houses, depots, a school, churches, shops, and other structures were built.

The policy extended to company-owned houses.

They took him home to a three-room company-owned house attached to the mill, where his father made $35 a week on the night shift.