COAL: Anthracite Efforts

" Meet again; talk again; quarrel again; leave again. Meet again . . ." continued to be an accurate history of the attempts to arrive at a new wage agreement to prevent an anthracite strike on Sept. 1.

The U. S. Coal Commission, entering the situation for the first time, invited the Joint Scale Committee of the anthracite miners and operators to meet with it at the Pennsylvania Hotel, Manhattan. The invitations were accepted. After both sides had talked with the Commission the miners made two offers: 1) That the operators accept...

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