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Justice outraged in southern Illinois miners' war
A Graettinger 1922 report describes a brutal Herrin mine battle where hundreds of strikers attacked non union workers. Mine guards fired, the superintendent was killed, and forty men were left on hot ground as the mob taunted officials. Inquest blamed coal company officers for hiring nonunion labor, and calls rise for swift justice and action by Illinois authorities.
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