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Russell Accused Of Burning TruckCARROLLTON, Ohio lt;UPI— Carroll County Prosecutor Rudolph Battista said Wednesday he would prove that United Mine Workers organizer James Russell helped overturn and set fire to a truck at a nonunion mine last Oct. 16.Battista said Russell was in a motorcade of 115 to 120 cars that came into an area near Mineral City where a non-union strip mine operation was run by the James Brothers Coal Co.Battista said Russell and some other men upset a truck owned by Ernest Bowman and added the UMW organizer was seen throwing something into the vehicle then ithurst into flames.Battista made the statements as part of his opening remarks at Russell’s trial in Carroll County Common Pleas Court on a charge of burning the truck.Defense attorney Danny Johnson said that Russell was not on the property when the incident occurred.The first witness Wednesday was Thomas A. Williams of Bellaire, president of District 6 of the UMW, who said Russell was hired as an organizer in 1969.Williams said he had told Russell shortly after he was hired not to visit the James Brothers mine.He also said attempts had been made to organize the James mine but they had been unsuccessful and no attempts had been made recently.The mine was burned out Oct. 16, one of several non-union coal mines hit by roving bands of pickets.
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Coshocton Tribune
Coshocton, Ohio, US
Thu, Jan 20, 1972
Page 4
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