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Nearly three years after Jock ran against Tony and... CamSight Media.

Nearly three years after Jock ran against Tony in a sham election, the miners went to the polls again, to decide this time between democracy or dictatorship.

It was also a vote on Tony's fate, not just whether he would remain president,

but also perhaps whether he would go to jail for the Oblonsky murders.

If Tony lost power, his inner circle might be willing to turn on him and give prosecutors the evidence they needed to prove he'd ordered the killings.

So everything was on the line as minors went to the polls in early December, 1972.

Some 200,000 miners began eight days of voting.

Perhaps the most bitterly fought election in the long and stormy history of the United Mine Workers Union.

All indications are that it will be a close election.

A close election and a heavily monitored one.

More than a thousand men from the Labor Department are overseeing the election.

To see that it's fairly conducted.

The most closely supervised election in labor history.

Tony painted the government oversight as interference,

accusing Chip and his crew of bringing in outsiders to steal the vote.

We must prepare now and reject these outsiders and these people who know what's best for you

who never belong to this union their lives.

But Tony had lost the fight with the regulators.

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