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...toughest anti-labor spots in the whole U.S. last week signed a union-shop agreement. So ended a war which had lasted for almost a quarter of a century between United Mine Workers and the coal operators of Harlan County...
...Tenn., on the Kentucky border (where Songstress Grace Moore once sang in a church choir), miners were fighting for subsistence wages. Operators, who included subsidiaries of U.S. Steel Corp., Ford, International Harvester, fought to keep wages down, keep Turnblazer's union from trespassing. The shock troops of the Harlan County Coal Operators' Association were "special guards," sheriffs and deputies...
Typical of the operators' bullyboys was Bill ("Thug") Johnson, who explained to the committee that he was employed to go out "thugging." The term, Mr. Johnson explained, meant to go "hunting for union men, organizers and so forth in Harlan County...
...unique career 27 years ago. A farmer's daughter from Keytesville, Mo., with apple cheeks and mischievous eyes, she married Robert Dooley. Shortly Mr. Dooley died, of "typhoid." Lyda married again-a William Gordon McHaffie. He also died, of "typhoid." So did Lyda's third husband, Harlan C. Lewis...
University of Missouri. Said the Student last May: "We feel that 16 years of schooling have prepared us for something more than going to war. . . ." Last week Missouri students held a "War Dance" and the Student's new Editor Harlan Byrne, who comes from General John J. Pershing's home town, Laclede. Mo., declared: "We must tip our weight to the British side of the battle scales. Perhaps this will mean war participation...