Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, April 29, 1990                   TAG: 9005010356
SECTION: THUNDER IN THE COALFIELDS                    PAGE: 2   EDITION: METRO 
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#1 PHOTOS BY DON PETERSEN

When union miners went on strike against Pittston in April 1989, they borrowed a tactic from the civil rights movement - civil disobedience. Under the supervision of union field reps such as Rick Blaylock (bottom), strikers routinely blocked the entrance to Pittston's largest coal-cleaning plant, Moss 3, and waited to be arrested. color.

(Page 2) The strike hit with the greatest force in Dickenson and Russell counties. State police discovered just how strongly the community had rallied behind the union on April 26, 1989, when strikers blocked the roads leading to Moss 3 with their trucks and cars, then locked them and walked away (left). State police called two tow trucks, but both drivers refused to haul away their neighbors' vehicles. B&W.

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