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Show The anthracite coal miners and the mine operators have consented to submit their troubles to a board of arbitration for adjustment. , To what extent the arbitration board's findings will be acceptable to either side, is aquestion for the future to decide. But pending the investigation investi-gation the miners have returned to work, and thus the immediate needs of the people may be supplied and much suffering averted. Permanent Perma-nent relief in this direction can come only through proper national legislation, and the sooner the better bet-ter for the public good. The miners in Pennsylvania were not striking either for fun or for meanness. They were striking for more money, for more breathing time for a chance to keep acquainted with their families. Their demands are entirely reasonable. The wage-earner wage-earner is something more than the tool he uses and the mule he drives. There is something radically wrong with the policy which enables the Trust to stow away annually one hundred millions of dollars in dividends, divi-dends, while the laboring masse? who wear out their lives to earn for them these millions can save scarcely scarce-ly enough to buy a decent burial shroud. The full dinner bucket sermon has come to be a mockery. |