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Show BLAST WRECKS HOMEOFMINER INWESTVIRGINIA One Man Injured When Workers Are Ambushed in New River Field ; State Police Arrest Four. ORGANIZERS ATTACK FRICK STRONGHOLD Strikers Threaten to Return Unless Nonunion Men Can Be Induced to Leave Plants in Strike Region CHARLESTON. W. Va., April 1J (By United Press). Two outbrraka of violence In connection with the national na-tional con! strike In tha New River field of Wont Virginia were reported to mote polios today. Miners on their way from Mt. Hope to Oswald were fired upon from the hillside early today and ona man waa wounded. Four arreata were made by state police. The home of James Penn. a nonunion non-union worker at Hylvla, near Berkley, waa blown up by dynamite during the night. No one waa Injured. A poase with bloodhounds spirted on the trail of the alleged dynamiter today. Strike Results Hinge On Unorganization PITTHBUHC1, Pa.. April 12. Efforts of union organizers In the coke regions re-gions of Pennsylvania were to be directed today against the stronghold of the H. C. Krlck Coke company between Connellsville and I'nlontnwn. with three experienced workers from the Vnited Mine Workere" headquarters headquar-ters at Indianapolis to nugment the I forces In this district. If they succeed suc-ceed In crippling the nonunion plants In this aectlon. they Indicated, they expect the remainder of the fields to Join the walkout. If they fall there ia danger that many of th men new out will return to work. Anthracite Takes Big March Lead PHILADELPHIA. April 13. Shipments Ship-ments of anthracite for March, as reported to the anthracite bureau of Information, amounted to 6,77. 7 gross tons, an Increase over February of 1,539.653 tons and over March of last year of 1.040.89'' tons. March. 122. thus stands third aa a record for that month. Tha total shipments for the coal year ended March 11 amounted to 7.03,037 gross tons, as compared with 69.36.731 tons shipped In the coal year ended March 31 .1921. Gompers Brands Land it' Award Unjust CHICAGO. April 12 (By Tnlted Press. Samuel Gompers today Joined I Chicago labor leaders In the fight on, J the wage award made by Judge Ian-! Ian-! dis in the building trsdes Industry. ' Branding the award as "unjust." i I the president of the American Fed- ! i eration of Labor counseled Chicago! ; labor leaders to raise at least I2.0oo.000 i to fight the "open shop." which he I said waa an outgrowth of the Landls decision. Leinuis set wages of building trades workers with the provision that if union refused to accept the decree employers would be Justified in hiring (nonunion men. The war fund suggested by Gom pera wan to match the sum raised by the citizens committee to enforce the Landis award. |