Report to the President on the Anthracite Coal Strike of May–October, 1902
Report
By: Anthracite Coal Strike Commission
Date: 1903
Source: Anthracite Coal Strike Commission. Report to the President on the Anthracite Coal Strike of May–October, 1902 Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1903, 80–87.
About the Author: The Anthracite Coal Strike Commission was created in October 1902 to arbitrate the dispute between miners and mine owners in the ongoing strike in the anthracite coal region of eastern Pennsylvania. An outgrowth of a preliminary investigation performed by Commissioner of Labor Carroll D. Wright, the seven-person commission included a mine engineer, a U.S. Army engineer, a Catholic bishop, "a businessman familiar with the coal industry," the president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Conductors, a federal judge, and Commissioner Wright.
Introduction
In May 1902, the coal miners of the anthracite region in...
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