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Show FIFTY ARRESTED IN MINE STRIKE RI0T1TBREAK Four State Policemen and Several Miners Injured in Clash at Colliery Near Uniontown, Pennsylvania TROOPERS WORSTED BEFORE HELP ARRIVES Many Members of Mob Found Armed With' Guns Emergency Forces Are Rushed to the Scene UNIONTOWN. Pa.. April 2 (By A. P.) Four state policemen and half at dosen atrlke sympathisers were In- I Jured In a riot at Tower Mill No. I mine of the Hlllman Coal company ' ten mllea from Uniontown today. Fifty or more arrests were made, tho prlsonera being brought to Uniontown. 1 Boon after daybreak a crowd of men and women, estimated at about 600. assembled at the mine, which haa been seriously crippled by the coal etriks, and aought to prevent a dosen or mors miners who reported for work from entering tho pit. Three state policemen who were summoned to disperse tho crowd were greeted with a shower of atonea. Tho troops were overwhelmed by numbers, but continued to fight while the mine management aent a call to Uniontown for help. Some twenty additional atato policemen were quickly on their way. while deputy sheriffs wore hurried from nearby points. They arrived not a minute too soon, for the little band of troopers had been hard preased. some of them being knocked own and badly beaten. The crowd was rounded up by tho before the more belligerent were subdued, sub-dued, as the troopers wsro not mounted. Five men In tho crowd, armed with pistols, opened fire on tho troopo and It waa reported bore that all of them had been captured. Half a dosen or more of tho rioters were more or less seriously hurt, one of them being- shot, while sji ml sasi aUkp showed ovldenco of the fight. When tho crowd had finally been dispersed and the troopers hsd rounded up their prisoners, they were loaded Into motor trucks and brought to tho county Jail hero. Board Findings Acceptable to Workers KLAMATH FALLS. Ore., April It. Timber workers today published a resolution declaring that they accepted the findings of the state conciliation board in tho atrlke here. The finding declared for maintenance of tho eight-hour eight-hour day and a reduction in wages. British Coal Finds No Market WASHINGTON, April J British coal exporters hsve been unable to increase in-crease their market In thla country be. cauae of the coal strike, seconding to a report to the commerce department to-day to-day from Trade Commtesloner Dye at London. "The general opinion In the Fouth Walea export center la" ho said, "that tho United Statea haa auch a largo atock of coal on hand that no ahlp-menta ahlp-menta are likely to take place unless the strike laata longer than now la expected." ex-pected." Leaders Violated Order, Is Claimed CHARLESTOWN. W. Va, April ! (By A. P.) Kd Reynolds and William Wil-liam Bllxxard "went on" to Logan county with eeveral hundred men under un-der their command after District President Presi-dent C. Frank Keeney of the United Mine Workers had advised armed marchera at Madison to return home, as ordered by Brigadier General Band-hols, Band-hols, Reynolds testified today In Bill-sard's Bill-sard's trial on a treason charge. |