Show THEY MISSED AN opportunity the coal miner could fight the opera tors more it they were capable of to work with a little business sagacity when the great strike waa approaching it became evident that tle pric ot anthracite coal would advance several dollar a ton owing to the scarcity of the article surd the bard coal could been obtained from england or wales with nife margin of profit but importers were in a position of uncertainty not knowing what day the strike might end by a concession on the part of the operator or a collapse of the resistance of the miners but the einera could bare cd the coal acita n absolute assurance of anakin H profit either on taft coat or through the conceding by ie coal operators of all they asked ahey were capable of prolonging the stu ka for several at least dur ans time they could have imported anthracite thereby fortifying themselves with aba agnews of war and destroyed for the time being the market for the anthracite of pennsylvania tho str ikera missed great opportunity port unity but eien now it may not be foo late tor them to go into the busi aci s of importing coal |