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The Anthracite Industry
Heller, Bernard | February 27, 1929 issue

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The anthracite industry has been in the lowest depths for the past three years. The strike of 1926 yielded a Pyrrhic victory to both operators and miners. The public became disgusted with the periodic wranglings of these factions, finding itself during such conflicts not only subjected to inconvenience but victim of an unscrupulous band of coal sharks. Prices were raised; impure coal was sent out as pure coal. Such methods, it is true, were practiced mostly by small independent companies or individual mine owners who found competition with the large companies difficult in normal times. In times of strike, they, together with the local dealers and distributors, felt that they ought to make hay while the sun shone.

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ANTHRACITE coal; MINERAL industries; MINERALOGY; BUSINESS enterprises -- United States; COAL; UNITED States
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