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Show UNION HEAD GETS DAMAGE VERDICT KANSAS CITY, June 17. Alexander Howat, president of the Kansas district, United Mine Workers of America, was awarded a verdict for $7000 damages against Joseph H. Hazen of Mulberry, Kan., by a jury here today. The jury refused to grant Howat damages from Charles S. Keith and other defendants in his $50,000 suit for slander. Howat in a statement declared the verdict was a complete vindication of his efforts to disprove alleged statements state-ments that ho had been paid money In connection with the making of a contract between coal operators and miners. |