Telegrams to Governor Thomas Kilby in Montgomery, Alabama, regarding the statewide coal miners' strike of 1920.
The messages report attacks by strikers on law enforcement officers and non-striking employees and request the governor send troops. The brief third telegram summarizes the situation (punctuation omitted as in original document): "Disorder and lawlessness on increase situation so acute necessar...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/6446 |