AMERICAN ITEMS.
IUSTII.U.IAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION | COAL CONFISCATED. NEW YORK. November 6. j At Olyphant, Pennsylvania, an outstanding incident of the coal strike's aftermath, which had been foreseen during the conflict's progress, occurred to-day, when 2009 citizens confiscated four cars of coal to heat nine churches and ten schools, which had been el sed on account of the cold. Olyphant, although the cent to of n coal producing district, "as unable to obtain sufficient coal for public needs, the Fuel Administration having a) portioned all the millets' production on a percentage litasis over the nation. Thus the mine owners were unable to sell coal to Olyphant according to needs. The citizens, however, were ■ exasperated at seeing coal trains pass j through the town without stop; ing. | Tile burgesses, at. a midnight meeting i decided to exert extraordinary police ! power. They stopped a train, detached j four ears loaded with fuel, and carried the coal to the schools and
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 November 1922, Page 3
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159AMERICAN ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 8 November 1922, Page 3
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