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Murder by Coal and Iron Police
Nunn, William L. | March 20, 1929 issue

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Since the beginning of the coal strike innumerable examples have come to light of brutalities and illegal arrests of miners living in closed company towns and company houses or of miners out on strike. The president of the United Mine Workers of America presented 250 affidavits of such cases to the Senatorial Investigating Committee. Yet neither the government of Pennsylvania nor the employers of the coal and iron police took notice. The ruthlessness of the coal and iron police system is go apparent, however, that many others have protested. United States Senators expressed amazement that an American commonwealth should tolerate such an institution and newspapers of the State have constantly called for change.

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STRIKES & lockouts -- Coal mining; CRUELTY; LEGISLATORS -- United States; MINERS; FALSE arrest; PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED States
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