Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...main street two miles long. In this motley oil town's brief career have been committed 40 murders, with not a single conviction. The killing of District Attorney John A. Holmes last month finally prodded Governor Dan Moody to declare martial law in Borger, to send in National Guardsmen of the 56th Cavalry Brigade under the command of Brigadier General Jacob F. Wolters...
...Near Detour, Mich., the ore boat William B. Pilkey, wedged helplessly on a reef, was heaved and pummeled by the storming surf of Autumn's first bad storm. Desperate Coast-Guardsmen rescued her crew...
...rock spur of a Lake Huron island was impaled the S. S. Maplecourt. Coast-Guardsmen, defying the walloping surf, rescued her crew...
...wounded men died before the Marion mill whistle shrieked its next day's warning. Three more were dying. Sheriff Adkins, 13 of his deputies, two mill foremen and a mechanic were arrested, charged with murder. Governor Oliver Max Gardner sent in two companies of National Guardsmen, also an outside judge to investigate. Forty of the mill workers were arrested for riot and rebellion but released without bail. R. W. Baldwin, chief of the Marion Manufacturing Co., blamed Vice President John A. Peel of the State Federation of Labor for the deaths. John Peel, of course, blamed Manufacturer Baldwin...
...cotton mill of Marion Manufacturing Co., owned by Spinster Sallie Baldwin of Baltimore. When the union hands struck, the mill closed down. Unionization spread to the mills of the Clinchfield Co. which also shut down temporarily. When Clinchfield tried to reopen, strikers massed before the gates, manhandled the superintendent. Guardsmen were sent in to restore order. Mill owners commenced to eject union strikers from company houses...