Effects of a Strike.
Owing to the miners’ strike, coal is selling at a half-penny a pound in New York.
Consequent on the high price of fuel manufacturing works are running half, time.
A convention of Mayors has been summoned to arrange an enforced settlement of the strike. President Roosevelt invited the presidents of the anthracite coal companies and Mr Mitchell, president of the Miners’ Union, to confer with him on Friday with reference to the strike. Mr Roosevelt described the matter as oae which vitally concerned the whole nation.
The invitation was accepted. The platform adopted by the State Democratic Convention at Saratoga includes the national ownership of the anthracite mines, with just compensation to the present owners.
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Manawatu Herald, 4 October 1902, Page 3
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119Effects of a Strike. Manawatu Herald, 4 October 1902, Page 3
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