MINE OWNERS FIRE ON MARCHING MEN; ELEVEN WOUNDED
NEW YORK, April 21 (Recd. 6 pm) —Eleven men were wounded today when the owners of a small non-union mine fired upon unarmed United Mine Workers’ Union pickets marching towards the pit. The police arrested the owner of the mine and seven of his employees and partners. They seized two shotguns and a rifl? which allegedly were used in the fight. The shootings occurred at th? Powell Coal Corporation mine near Mor-
gantown. The firing opened as a band of about 30 pickets marchod up a road in an attemot to force the. ov.r.ers 1c join the U-M.W. )niy one of the victime was wound 0 ! erio’islv.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 22 April 1950, Page 5
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115MINE OWNERS FIRE ON MARCHING MEN; ELEVEN WOUNDED Wanganui Chronicle, 22 April 1950, Page 5
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