Sid Hatfield, a prominent figure in the Mine Wars and a union leader, was killed on August 1, 1921, in an ambush orchestrated by agents of the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency. The ambush occurred in the town of Matewan, West Virginia, where Hatfield had been a key advocate for miners' rights. His assassination was part of a broader conflict between labor unions and coal companies during a tumultuous period in American labor history.
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