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MADRID – Thousands of angry Spanish coal miners marched through Madrid's main avenue Wednesday, throwing firecrackers and dodging rubber bullets fired by police to protest a cut in government subsidies they say will kill their industry.

"It is not violence to defend our jobs and the daily bread of our children," said Manuel Robles, a miner and union representative of the Candin Shaft in Langrea, a mining town in the northern region of Asturias.

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