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Dates: during 1949-1949
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...patches of John L. Lewis' empire as picketing union miners tried to repair small defects in the weapon that had always served them best-a nationwide coal strike. A Hawkes Coal Co. tipple near Morgantown, Ky. was dynamited. In a lonely stretch of northwest Alabama, six brothers named Preskitt stocked their 150-ton-a-day strip mine with all the weapons they could find and waited grimly for something to happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Trouble in the Hill Country | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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