"Why don't you kill those union men?" said an unknown questioner.
"My God, we can't do that," replied the company-hired police chief of Lynch, a company-owned coal town in Harlan County, Ky. "It would mean a Senate investigation and we can't stand that."
A United Mine Workers organizer testified at a Senate investigation last week that he had overheard this conversation in a hotel two years ago, during a U. M. W. drive to organize Harlan County's miners. That drive failed, as union attempts to get a foothold in "Bloody Harlan" have always...
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