Charles Everett Lively (March 6, 1887 – May 28, 1962) was an American private detective who worked as a labor spy for the Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency. He played an active role in the Coal Wars in Appalachia and Colorado during the early 20th century. Lively spied on the United Mine Workers of America in West Virginia and five other states, sometimes while working as a coal miner. After fatally shooting a striking miner during the Colorado Coalfield War, Lively spent several years working for Baldwin–Felts in the Great Plains before his assignment in Matewan, West Virginia.
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| - Charles Everett Lively (March 6, 1887 – May 28, 1962) was an American private detective who worked as a labor spy for the Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency. He played an active role in the Coal Wars in Appalachia and Colorado during the early 20th century. Lively spied on the United Mine Workers of America in West Virginia and five other states, sometimes while working as a coal miner. After fatally shooting a striking miner during the Colorado Coalfield War, Lively spent several years working for Baldwin–Felts in the Great Plains before his assignment in Matewan, West Virginia. (en)
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| - Coal mining in Appalachia
- Bigamists
- Pseudonym
- Coal Wars
- Battle of Matewan
- Bluefield, West Virginia
- Bob Gunton
- Private detectives and investigators
- Huerfano County, Colorado
- Huntington, West Virginia
- John Sayles
- Roanoke, Virginia
- Suicides by firearm in West Virginia
- Union busting
- United Mine Workers
- United States Senate
- 1900 United States census
- 1910 United States census
- Colorado Coalfield War
- Matewan
- Matewan, West Virginia
- McDowell County, West Virginia
- Gatewood, West Virginia
- Coal Wars
- El Paso County, Colorado
- Great Plains
- Mohawk, West Virginia
- Labor spying in the United States
- Stirrat, West Virginia
- 1887 births
- 1962 deaths
- Welch, West Virginia
- Western Federation of Miners
- Williamson, West Virginia
- Fayette County, West Virginia
- Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency
- Labor detectives
- History of union busting in the United States
- Security guard
- Prohibition in the United States
- Coup de grâce
- People from West Virginia
- People acquitted of murder
- Charleston, West Virginia
- Chesapeake, West Virginia
- Kanawha County, West Virginia
- Kenneth McKellar (politician)
- La Veta, Colorado
- Bigamy
- Merrimac, West Virginia
- Mingo County, West Virginia
- YMCA
- Sid Hatfield
- Mother Jones
- Involuntary manslaughter
- Mingo County
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| - Charles Everett Lively (March 6, 1887 – May 28, 1962) was an American private detective who worked as a labor spy for the Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency. He played an active role in the Coal Wars in Appalachia and Colorado during the early 20th century. Lively spied on the United Mine Workers of America in West Virginia and five other states, sometimes while working as a coal miner. After fatally shooting a striking miner during the Colorado Coalfield War, Lively spent several years working for Baldwin–Felts in the Great Plains before his assignment in Matewan, West Virginia. Lively was so successful posing as a UMWA activist that he became a union delegate and was once photographed with Mother Jones. His cover was abandoned in the wake of the Battle of Matewan in May 1920, in which seven Baldwin–Felts detectives were killed. The following year, Lively and another Baldwin–Felts operative killed Sid Hatfield, Matewan's pro-union police chief, and his associate Edward Chambers, apparently at the behest of the detective agency. Lively successfully claimed self-defense in the double homicide. His participation in three killings, with scant consequences, cemented his reputation as one of the most violent opponents of efforts to unionize the coal fields. He has been called "the deadliest man in the West Virginia-Colorado coal mine wars". (en)
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