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SEVEN SHOT IN MINE RIOT AT . SPSIMELDiCrowd of 2,000 Seek toPrevent Mines toWorkMore than Score of Others Injured in PeerlessBattleSPRINGFIELD, ILL., June (UP)—Seven working miners and a special deputy sheriff were shotand more than a score of persons injured by flying bricks and other missies today as a picket army composed of between 2,000 and 500 men and women sought to pre- H vent miners from going to work at f the Peerless mine of the Peabody Coal Company. *1tunas Urban, 25, Springfield, jyed at the mine, was shot in J the' abdomen and attaches at St. John’s hospital said the wound probably would prove fatal.Others wounded in the battle included Don Schaive, Andrew Go-1 lesh, Frank Prezel, Matt Prista- •« vich, Tony Ron a sky, Joseph Quin- i || nigan, all miners residing in the | vicinity of Springfield, and Herman j Schwa berg, a special deputy.Following the fighting near the mine a group of 100 pickets march-' ed on the mine workers building \ in the business district here and i _ declared they would await arrival. ^ of officials of the Illinois district j tJ| mine union. City police diapers- C. ed them however, with the threat jj of using tear bombs.The picket army, led by shrieking women bore down on the min-ers as they approached a road lead- j ing to the shaft. A small group of} special deputies was powerless to ^withstand the attack. Bulletst fowhized through the air accompan! mied by showers of bricks, stones, j rocks and anything available that could be thrown.^Some of the women were equip-IK:lt;1 with brook clubs and they urg-1ed their men folks into the fray.tlsometimes swinging the clubs atthem.! PA highway running parallel to the: 0lt; mine was blocked for more than half an hour before authorities rlt; could disperse the pickets. A call. w was sent to Taylorville for Nation- {~ al Guardsmen and a detach merit 11 of thirty men came to Springfield ! * to aid in breaking up the army. i Kl Tear gas was used to scatter the pickets and they went in all direc-j S lions, some falling and stumbling5 as they sought to escape the gas.1 £ The guard's men and deputies con- j h linued to pump the gas into the L fleeing army until all of the men w and women had retreated to a point j n a considerable distance from the r mining property.Col Etchings J. Shand of the II- V linois National Guard ordered the f detachment cf guardsmen to re- s main on duty at the mine through- A out the day. He declared no addi-j tional guards would be ordered to li the scene unless there was an ad- i IdHaial outbreak of violence. 1 n ^■lie working miners were almost v helpless in their battle with the ? pickets, being outnumbered by i twenty to forty to one. They used, what bricks and rocks that were f available to hurl back at the pick- t ets but had little effect. €The outbreak of violence was the s first in months in the Springfield ' area in connection with the mine t union controversy between mem- ] bers of the United Mine Workers lt;of America and the Progressive ; Miners Union. The latter union « was. organized last fall following ’ a dispute between miners and un- , ion officials over a basic wage , scale.Members of the United Mine , Workers are employed exclusively ,hv the Peabody Coal Company , against protests of the Progres- !
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Murphysboro Daily Independent
Murphysboro, Illinois, US
Wed, Jun 07, 1933
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