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...east over the Allegheny '"Hell Stretch" with mail from Cleveland to Washington. His radio, which the Army had less than ten days to install for airmail service, faded out. Completely lost, Lieut. Hollstein ran into a soupy fog, made a crash landing on an ice-clad hill outside Uniontown, Pa. His head and face badly gashed, he managed to scramble out of the wrecked ship and summon aid to rescue his mail...
...Pursu:mt to French etiquet in such political riots only one prisoner, out of a batch of more than 200, was held in jail on the day after arrest. He said he was a U. S. citizen, Joseph Klustik, 20, of Uniontown, Pa. Police held him as a vagrant, lent a sympathetic ear to his protest: "I was just standing there. I didn't hit anybody or do anything...
...check-off system the employer collects dues for the union by withholding them from the workers' pay envelopes. This the steel-masters declined to do lest it wedge the union idea into their non-union world. Led by red-headed Insurgent Martin Ryan, 30,000 diggers massed outside Uniontown, swore they would not work in any kind of coal mine until the captive owners granted the checkoff...
Died. Josiah Van Kirk Thompson, 79, retired Pennsylvania coal operator and banker; after long illness; in the 52-room house on the weed-choked ruin of his estate, "Oak Hill," in Uniontown, Pa. Inheriting $100,000 from his father, he gave it to Washington & Jefferson College which had graduated him, started from scratch. Uncannily able to "smell" coal, he built up a $70,000,000 empire, owned more than 140,000 acres of coal land. The War caught him overextended, his bank strained by a transcontinental railroad project. In 1930, flat broke, he was sued by his niece, the Princess...
Early next morning 400 strikers gathered at the Gates mine of the Frick company, 15 mi. from, Uniontown. Six mine bosses followed by a few maintenance men started to shove through the pack. A picket leader jostled a mine guard. Stones began to fly. "Let 'em have it!" roared a mine boss. Bang-bang-bang went the mine guards' guns. Tear gas enveloped the strikers. One guard shot another guard's arm off by mistake. Fifteen strikers were dropped by bullets, their names a typical roster of U. S. mine labor: Louis Kromer, Steve Hrosky, George...