Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reclamation Bureau. Five A. F. of L. unions struck last month for a closed shop at the dam. Last week 200 deputized vigilantes (non-strikers, ranchers, businessmen) attacked the strikers, shot and wounded five, subsided only when Governor Ralph L. Carr sent National Guardsmen to quell "a state of insurrection...
HARLAN, Ky.--Coal mining operations were resumed in scattered sections of Harlan County today under the watchful eyes of heavily armed National Guardsmen who clashed twice with United Mine Workers pickets but otherwise held violence to a minimum...
...Happy" Chandler meantime ordered 200 additional troops, including howitzer and tank companies, to join the 600 Guardsmen on duty. Their arrival, probably early tomorrow, is expected to signal the opening of more shafts...
...Hlinka Guardsmen reappeared (armed again) and beside their uniforms were seen those of Slovak Nazi Storm Troopers. Jewish shop windows began to crash. And just as before Munich, the German press reported atrocities: "The Czechs' blood terror against Germans and Slovaks creates an unbearable situation...
...back up the court order, "I did not ignore that writ. ... On the contrary, I warned the union representatives that I would enforce it." He merely delayed enforcement over the week-end (the writ was issued on a Friday) because he believed a negotiated settlement was imminent. National Guardsmen stood by, and sure enough a settlement was reached without bloodshed...