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American History

mahatmakanejeeves

(60,972 posts) Tue Oct 3, 2023, 03:19 PM Oct 2023

On October 3, 1932, state troopers marched into Kincaid, Ill., to guard against a sympathy strike.

Credit, Omaha Steve

Sat Oct 3, 2015: October 3, 1932

https://todayinlaborhistory.wordpress.com/2015/10/03/october-3-1932/

{I changed the link to one that works.}

State troopers march into Kincaid, Illinois, to guard against a sympathy strike by more than 160 of the town’s 180 high school students, protesting the use by their school of scab-produced coal from the Peabody Coal Company while their fathers are on strike over wages.

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