THE MINERS' WAR
SEQUEt OF VIRGINIA STRUGGLE
LEADER ACQUITTED OF TREASON.
(UNITED PRBSS ASSOCIATION.^-«>Pnu6BT,>
(AUSTRALIAN - NBW ZEALAND CARLE ASSOCIATION.) NEW YORK, 28th May. At Charlestown, Wesv Virginia, a test trial of William Blizzaru, a union leader, 'charged with treason, resiilted in his acquittal. Blizzard is one of .nearly two hundred men held on charges of treason, arson, and other crimes arising from the coal strike. The trials of other accused, have been postponed'till late in the summer. It is not expected that the State will secure any convictions on the major charge/ [During the coal strikes last August, miners in the Mingo coalfield district in "West Virginia, as a protest agajngt the declaration of martial law, took
arms, and thousands marched against. , the country, seizing supplies as they went. Troops were sent against them, and a regular xvar began, in which the fighting extended at times over a front many miles in length. The arrival of an overwhelming; force of Federal, troops and tho uso of aircraft stopped the advance. There were hundreds of casualties.] . . ■■
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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 125, 30 May 1922, Page 7
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175THE MINERS' WAR Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 125, 30 May 1922, Page 7
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