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Show IIARLAIi PICKETS TIE UPJ.IIIIING HARLAN, Ky., May 4 UP Ap-preMimataly Ap-preMimataly 1000 pickets today peaceably atopped coal production la Harlan couniy. Thb Goode Coal company mine at Liale, which alone operated yesterday, yes-terday, (ailed to get atartcd thia morning when plcketa appeared. Soma companies bad announced that they Intended to resume work Immediately without waiting for the conclusion of negotiations in New York between Appalachian operators and United Mine Work-era' Work-era' representatives About T:J0 a. as. pickets assembled assem-bled also at tha camp of the Clover Clo-ver fork Coal company at Kills. ilunlta f ha Hiunnifnt'l an nouncement of no work today. There were about 1000 men in the group. The force of about 30 state policemen police-men on duty, under Captain Carl Norman, went to the camp. Norman Nor-man said a number of the men about the offices and tipple dispersed dis-persed Into the bills at the approach ap-proach of the officers, but others continued to mill around The police took over a barricade erected by the pickets on a bridge leading from the Clover Fork highway high-way to the mine read and blocked PAsswassVflP v? IvVSA wVJMl WstiUsaUtjasesteaBesseeawaw E. C- Whitfield, general manager of the Clover Fork mine, aaid: "We are not planning te run until un-til we can get adequate protection from the governor. We put the men out to work twice and they were slugged. Sooner or later someone will be killed If we try ' te work without protection." ' A negro miner waa beaten at j the Clover Fork mine yesterday. ! |