Fatal Mine Shooting Increases Tension in Coal “War” Situation (Universal Newsreel, Oct 1932)

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The original release sheet reads: 1. FATAL MINE SHOOTING INCREASES TENSION IN COAL “WAR” SITUATION: TAYLORVILLE, IL - Conditions are at fever heat in the Southern Illinois “strike” belt as a result of the death of Andy Ganes, a picketer, at the hands of a National Guardsman. Seven companies of the 130th Infantry are patrolling the villages and the roads leading to the various shafts now trying to operate with $5-a-day miners. The battle is between adherents to the United Mine Workers, the old-line union, willing to work at a cut-wage, and the newly-formed union, the Progressive Miners’ Association, holding out for a $6.10 daily scale, and trying to prevent any work done at the lower pay rate. The soldiers have been called in to guarantee the safety of those who want to work. The entire populace is lined up on one side or the other. It is the worst state of affairs on record in trouble-torn Christian County. 2. FARMERS STRIVE FOR PLOWING HONORS IN INTERNATIONAL MEET: OTTAWA, ONT., CANADA - The annual matches to determine the world’s champion man-behind-the-plow, staged at the Experimental Farm under the supervision of the Hon. Robert Weir, Federal Minister of Agriculture, attracts competing farmers from many lands. Carefully but with speed, the contestants have to turn up a score or more of furrows, which are judged for their depth, alignment and the elapsed time. The test is to encourage painstaking and efficient farming. Careless farm work is costing the Dominion $18,000,000 a year because of weeds, the government experts state. This year’s prize winner is Algie Wallace, of North Gower, Ont. As a prize, the stalwart son of the northern soil gets – a tea-set! 3. BUSINESS BOOMS AS CITIZENS RETURN TO OLD TIME SWAP BASIS: SUFFERN, NY - Amazing results in primitive exchange methods of merchandising are obtained at the Art Centre here in a “bring-and-take” trading day arranged by local economists. Furniture, clothing, groceries, vegetables, fruits, fowl, wood, coal, household goods and works of art are bartered by residents from miles around. A turkey goes in exchange for a stained glass plaque, a goat for a bucket of paint, a trousseau for a baby carriage and various unemployed men stake their services and time against food and provision. An amusing and enlightening demonstration of human ingenuity in the tight money era. EUROPE’S RULER IN TODAY’S NEWS: 4. HINDENBURG’S FORMER TROOPS VOW LOYALTY/BERLIN, GERMANY - Famous regiments which participated under him in the brilliant World War operations in the Mazurian Lakes region that brought him ever-lasting fame do honor to the 85-year-old Field Marshal in stirring martial exercises in commemoration of the outstanding feat of the armies of the Vaterland. The 147th von Hindenburg Regiment, the 3rd Footguard Regiment and the 91st Oldenburg Regiment bear their banners proudly past their former battle chief, while the President, back in uniform for the day, paternally salutes his beloved units. 5. DE VALERA IN PARLEY WITH CABINET CHIEFS/LONDON, ENGLAND - Tension is high in Downing Street as the President of the Irish Free State visits the Dominion office on his way back from Geneva, to argue over the British-Celtic imbroglio. His threat to abolish the Oath of Allegiance is causing great concern. Irish residents of London throng the streets, while foot and mounted police guard the government offices. 6. SON OF PRES. LEBRUN WEDS TENNIS STAR/RAMBOUILLET, FRANCE - With a simple ceremony at the Mayor’s office, followed by a colorful wedding at the Church of Saint Lubin, Jean Lebrun, young engineer at the public electric works in Vitry-sur-Seine, becomes the husband of Bernadette Marin, law-student, sports woman and daughter of a former French army officer. High officials of the government attend the picturesque nuptials. 7. GORY FINISH MARKS ANNUAL FROSH-SOPH INTERCLASS RUCKUS: BROOKLYN, NY - The “pants rush” of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, held in Ebbets Field, is strictly a “stag” affair, as the embattled freshmen, assailed by rank after rank of blood-thirsty sophomores, lose their shirts, then their galluses, and finally their trousers, knickers and what-d’ye-callums. However, the youngsters manage to save a few stitches in time from the clutching, tearing hands of the older-classmen, and retreat to safety and to less exposed quarters, leaving the victors to execute a snake-dance in celebration of their hard-fought battle. Just a couple of hundred college boys on a “tear.” 8. FASCIST DEMAND FOR HORSES PROVES BLOW TO MOTOR PARTISANS: ROME, ITALY - Mussolini announced several years ago that Italians must become a nation of horse-breeders, and so, nature having taken her course, a national horse show is held in the Parioli Hippodrome, with 2,000 Italian born and trained horses, including mares and stallions from Sicily, Maremma and Tuscany, draught horses from the Po valley, Cremona, Ferrara and Mantua, carriage horses from all over the country, Tyrolean peasants on ponies, a Sardinian cavalcade in costume, and multicolored Sicilian carts drawn by sleek, stalwart animals, are paraded before Il Duce. A significant occasion that sings the renaissance of the horse and strikes an uneasy chord in the breasts of pro-mechanized enthusiasts. (LOCAL – RICHMOND – A) RECORD CROWD SEES POLYTECHNIC DEFEAT WILLIAM & MARY, 7-0. (LOCAL – RICHMOND – B) THOUSANDS GATHER FOR DEDICATION OF GREAT WAR CARILLON. (LOCAL – BUFFALO) 10,000 JUNIOR FIREMEN PARTICIPATE IN “NEWS” PREVENTION PARADE

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MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library