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Show SAYS DEPUTIES SHOT STRIKING MINERS WASHINGTON'. June 1. Francis Feehao, president of the Pennsylvania Mine Workers' union, bluntly charged before the bouse committee oa rnles that murder, violence and peonage had marked the progress ot the strike in the Westmoreland coal fields of Pennavlva nia. Ho asserted that twenty miners had been shot to death by deputy sheriffs and that foreign laborers had been held practically in slavery. The rules committee heard Keehsn in connection with a resolution y Representative Repre-sentative Wilson of Pennsylvania, di reeling an inouirv" by congress into strike ia the Westmoreland field. The committee decided that the courts should be exhausted before congress should conduct an inquiry into the situation. situ-ation. I. |