
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, April 29, 1990                   TAG: 9004300444
SECTION: THUNDER IN THE COALFIELD                    PAGE: 3   EDITION: METRO 
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# 2 PHOTOS BY DON PETERSEN.

Despite the union's vow of non-violence, the spark of violence was never far away. At lower left, a state trooper questions a replacement worker who had brandished a gun against strikers. At one point, a confrontation between strikers and replacement workers driving Pittston coal trucks turned bloody.

The trucker (above, left) claimed strikers pelted him with rocks and smashed his jaw; in the confusion, one trucker ran into seven picketers (below, right), sending two of them to the hospital.

Strike leader Marty Hudson rushed to a retired coal miner who doubled as a minister and the Rev. Harry Whittaker led the men in prayer: "Don't cause no violence or nothing." That cooled the crowd's passion. color.

by CNB