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

DATE: MONDAY, October 18, 1993                   TAG: 9310180122
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: EAST FINLEY, PA.                                LENGTH: Short

VIOLENCE REPORTED IN COAL MINE PROTEST

Violence broke out during a protest staged by striking union coal miners near a nonunion mine in southwestern Pennsylvania, and one miner was slightly injured.

Some 18,000 United Mine Workers members in seven states, including Virginia, have been on a gradually expanding selective strike since May 10 against the Bituminous Coal Operators Association, an industry contract bargaining group.

The injured man was struck by marbles fired from a slingshot, troopers said. Police did not say if he was a union member. Objects also were thrown at vehicles, tires were punctured, and vehicle windows were broken, they said.

- Associated Press

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