A POLICE CLASH.
SIX SHOT DEAD. AFTER PITCHED BATTLE. Press A ..sedation--Electric Xelegr;ij>li--Copyr'gh'c. NKW YORK, Monday. At South Pittsburg, a coal and iron mining village in Tennessee, militiamen were keeping order to-day after six officers of the law had been shot dead and a score of others wounded in a pitdied battle between county and city police. Tlie clash resulted from a dispute in a local factory, the County Sheriff siding with the union workers, while the city Marshal sided with the non-union men. The Smte Governor was compelled to order out the National Guards to restore order. '
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 28 December 1927, Page 5
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98A POLICE CLASH. Wairarapa Daily Times, 28 December 1927, Page 5
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