AMERICAN COAL STRIKE
NO SETTLEMENT YET. DEMAND FOR AN INQUIRY. (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright ) WASHINGTON, February 1. (Received Feb. 2, at 7.45 p.m.) Senator Johnson demanded a Congressional inquiry into the soft coal strike, which has been continuing for many months. He said that women and children were starving * in the mining camps in Pennsylvania, and Ohio miners and their families were being ejected by thousands, and left freezing in the streets. Senator Reed confirmed Senator Johnson’s statement of the conditions in Pennsylvania, ex-Governor Pinchot’s charges being quoted that the coal companies employed 4000 thugs and felons as private policemen in Pennsylvania.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20323, 3 February 1928, Page 9
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