ROANOKE TIMES

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

DATE: SUNDAY, April 29, 1990                   TAG: 9004300453
SECTION: THUNDER IN THE COALFIELDS                    PAGE: 7   EDITION: METRO 
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#6 PHOTOS BY DON PETERSEN.

Strikers were defiant to the end, even as state troopers dragged them to waiting prison buses (top and left). Union members complained that the troopers treated them too roughly. Others went more willingly, such as the the Episcopal priest escorted by a member of the state police's canine unit. But the troopers had to remain on their guard, nonetheless, such as the time (top right) they were forced to break up a fight on the picket line and wrestle with a striker who had tangled with a non-union coal truck driver. color.



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