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Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America is a work of narrative nonfiction and labor history by Mark A. Bradley. It reconstructs the 1969 murders of union reformer Joseph Jock Yablonski, his wife, and daughter, and places those killings within the broader struggle over control of the United Mine Workers of America. The book examines how corruption inside the union, especially under president Tony Boyle, collided with rank and file efforts to democratize labor leadership. Rather than treating the murders as an isolated crime, Bradley connects them to election fraud allegations, internal union politics, federal labor law, and the social power of the coal industry. The result is both a true crime account and a history of organized labor in a period of major upheaval. Its purpose is to show how one violent episode exposed structural abuses and helped trigger a significant reform movement within American unionism.