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...they do ratify it, probably within ten days, it will finally end a struggle that brought power shortages, curtailed business hours, and threatened mass layoffs in eight Eastern-Central states. It will also end the sporadic violence that has pitted angry strikers against armed truckers trying to bring nonunion coal to utility companies (see box). Even after ratification, however, it could take the mines three weeks more to resume full production...
...Tiffany Mining Co. in Hocking County, Ohio, a caravan of 50 trucks and cars pulled to a halt one day last week. More than 100 striking coal miners clambered out, set fire to a nonunion coal truck and an office trailer, then swept on. In Lawrence County they overturned a pickup truck; in Jackson County they did $13,000 worth of damage to one mine's scales. In Baldwin, Ill., another band of strikers delayed a train carrying coal to the state power company by stacking and burning railroad ties on the tracks leading into the utility...
These were instances of the anger that marked the coal strike-determination by nonunion coal operators to supply waiting furnaces; determination by union miners to stop those supplies...
...Coal Dock in Rockport, Ind., which buys coal from 60-odd nonunion mines and sells it to power stations, was attacked in January, and twelve $50,000 coal trucks were destroyed. State police arrested 194 men, mostly miners from Indiana's U.M.W. District 11. Last week any visitor was met by at least three AR-15-armed guards. In his office, which still has holes in the wall from the ax attack of the U.M.W. toughs, B&M Owner Paul Teegarden kept a 9-mm Smith & Wesson automatic pistol on his desk and a 12-gauge shotgun...
...more to perform similar duty along an intentionally undisclosed coal route. Other states in the region assigned their police forces to protect coal shipments. Moreover, the Coast Guard patrolled a 42-mile "safety zone" along the Ohio River from the Cannelton Locks to Newburgh, Ind., where much of the nonunion coal was barged...