Word: mined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suddenly there is great activity at the United Mine Workers' Local. The miners see their strike jeopardized by the scabs, and the community terrorized by the mine guards. Fresh arrogance by the invading company detectives fans the flames to hatred. The miners begin to arm, a group of them ambush a truck full of guards coming from Carbondale and kill three. It is the overt act of class warfare...
Before the sun is down the miners have organized and surrounded the Lester strip mine. They fire hundreds of shots into the company sheds and freight cars, where the strike breakers and guards have intrenched themselves. But the beleaguered defenders are equipped with machine guns and three union miners are riddled early in the action. Night falls and the besiegers creep closer-to within forty yards of the enemy. They crouch behind a parapet of earth thrown up by a steam-shovel and wait for daylight to finish their bloody work...
Meanwhile Colonel Sam Hunter from the Adjutant General's office in Springfield comes to town. He gets in touch with Hugh Willis, official of the Mine Workers' Local, and tries to arrange an honorable surrender with immunity. Willis replies evasively, but " thinks it can be arranged." The defenders are telephoned and told to wait for a " white flag and a union official motor car." They wait until sunup, but neither flag or motor appear. So they raise their own white flag, and trusting the shouts of the union miners promising them immunity, surrender in a body-45 strikebreakers...
...ethics of its own, it seems. One Otis Clark harangues the mob. He calls for the death of every scab, prisoner or not, to " stamp out the breed " once and for all. As a gauge of battle he leads away McDowell, the one-legged superintendent of the mine into the woods. McDowell's mutilated body is found hours later...
Died: George Shapley Downing, 36, assistant superintendent of the Argonaut Mining Co., at a hospital in San Francisco. He suffered a col- lapse from his extreme exertions in the attempted rescue of 46 miners entombed in the Argonaut gold mine last September...