The Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Strike helped bring new leaders to power in the miners’ union, District 17. Many miners were unhappy with how the strike had ended, especially on Cabin Creek. In 1916, they elected workers from the mines as leaders, including Frank Keeney as president and Fred Mooney as secretary-treasurer. These two would later lead miners in the major labor battles of the early 1920s, including the famous March on Logan and the Battle of Blair Mountain.