COAL: Anthracitis

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Only a good dramatist can write the last act of a drama without letting suspense fall. Fate is such a dramatist. The last week of the coal quandary found actors and audience equally anxious for the outcome, equally ignorant of the event. With Sept. 1 only a few days away, the anthracite uncertainty drew to a rapid close—either strike or peace. Nobody knew. But the grave dramatis personae spiritedly played their allotted parts:

Miners and Operators. Meeting again at Atlantic City the principals in the plot...

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