Hi Scanned photos of the Life Magazine _1939 Harlan strike_ ( http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyharlan/research.html) _http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyharlan/research.html_ (http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyharlan/research.html) (http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyharlan/photoone.html) Just a note on what the coal miners were facing whenever they bargained for higher wages, health benefits and safe working conditions. Every mine in Harlan, County had this type of defense against the miners. Ammunition on hand at the following mines by coal operators. 1. Yancy Fuel Company Inc.--`1935--One grenade, half tear gas and half sickening gas, one grenade all sickening gas. 2. Wisconsin Steel Company--Benham, Ky--1937 Fourteen--45 automatics, Two Colt Revolvers, Two- 38-S & W Revolvers; Two-38 Revolvers with 6" inch Barrel, S & W; Five,12 Gauge Winchester Shot Guns; Six, 32 Winchester Special High Powered Rifles; Five, 38 X 40 Marlin Rifles; Seven, 32 X 20 Winchester Rifles; Four and a half boxes of 45 Colt Revolver Cartridges, sixteen boxes of 45 Automatic cartridges, four and a half boxes of 38-44 S & W Special Revolver Cartridges, one and a half boxes 44 S & W Special Revolver Cartridges; Seven and half boxes 38 Winchester Rifle Cartridges; eight boxes of 12 Gauge Shot Gun Shell Cartridges; Thirty two boxes of 32 Special high Powered Rifle Cartridges. 3. United States Coal and Coke Co---Lynch, Ky. 48 Grenades: 105 M; Seven 1. 5 Federal Gas Riot guns, Six heavy Duty Gas masks; Thirty five Winchester Rifles; Ten colt Revolvers; Fifteen Smith and Wesson 38 Special Revolvers; Thirty five, Winchester 30-30 Rifles, five hundred 30-30 Rifle cartridges:one hundred twenty five 12 gauge shotgun shells: One hundred fifty 38 special cartridges. Elva