COAL: The Road to Peace

After having held six sessions at Atlantic City, anthracite miners and operators found that they had reached an agreement on two and perhaps three of the eleven demands of the miners. The conference to draw up a new anthracite labor contract, in place of the present contract expiring on August 31, has as yet had no setbacks.

Samuel D. Warriner, President of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co., and leader of the operators, agreed to the demands of the miners that all members of the industry should have a uniform eight-hour day with...

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