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Show cent increase in wages for contract miners and $1 a day more for day workers, and changes in working conditions had almost been lost' sight of prior to the settlement. ' : It is generally conceded that the suffering to the public in general as a result of the strike has not been as great as was anticipated. The public has been able to get along on substitutes and the only losers in the strike have been the principles them-, selves. J COAL STRIKE COST OVER $175,000,000 According to figures recently' compiled by experts the an-j thracite coal strike, which had been in duration a few days more han five months, cost the staggering sum of $175,000,000 in loss of profits and wages. It is estimated that the miners themselves lost $125,000,000 n the way of wages and the operators another $50,000,000 in the' way of profits. This of course does not take "into consideration! losses 'by business men and' railroads in the vicinity of the anthracite region. It; is also a rather noteworthy fact that during' the five months of idleness and contention back and forward between the operators and the men the main issues for which the men struck a 1 0 per |