After eight weeks of the strike, the Southern Illinois Coal Company began to reopen its mines in Williamson County with imported strikebreakers under heavily armed guards. When a group of miners tried to talk with the strikebreakers they were fired on by machine guns and two of them killed.

Private guards, hired by corporations, massacring workers. Enjoy!

    Gabriel Abraham Garrett

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