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Show oo GRAVE CRISIS FACES ; U. S. INDUSTRIAL LIFE! WASHINGTON, May 19. A grave crisis "involving the industrial life of tho country," has resulted from failure of soft coal operators to obtain an adequate ade-quate car supply, the National Coal association declared last night. At the same time the United Mine Workers of America, in a statement quoting John Moore, president of tho Ohio miners, said that unless something some-thing was done Immediately to reliove the car situation, the public would find Itself without coal next winter. Responsibility Re-sponsibility for present conditions, more particularly rests upon the railroads rail-roads and their unjust and unfair discrimination dis-crimination In the transportation of coal cars." |