AMERICAN COALFIELDS
A PROTRACTED STRIKE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright WASHINGTON, February I. 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 minin<r camps in Pennsylvania, and Ohio mmers 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 4.000 thugs and felons as private policemen in Pennsylvania.
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Evening Star, Issue 19781, 3 February 1928, Page 7
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90AMERICAN COALFIELDS Evening Star, Issue 19781, 3 February 1928, Page 7
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