Word: powhatan
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...union men, indifferent, raised no cheers. Only heart-breaking news came to the marchers; another company, the huge Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corp. had decided to go nonunion. And then Sheriff Robert H. Braun of Allegheny County ordered the police to disperse all groups of pickets. Meanwhile, in Ohio the Powhatan Mining Co. informed strikers that they must either pay rent or get out of the company's houses. The Union, disheartened, settled down to a long, long wait. The operators, sat back, hoping, if not expecting that the Union would smash itself...