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The Coming of Coal

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Accidents 44–47, 81

Acquisitive instinct 9–12, 16, 18, 38

Agriculture 23–24

America 23–33

American Federation of Labor 57–58

American miners' association 53

Anthracite industry 54

Anthracite strike, 1902 48, 62–64, 66–71

Arbitration and conciliation 48–49, 54–56, 58–59, 63–65

Associations 18–19

(See also Miners' unions; Operators' associations.)

Avondale disaster 45–46

Baer, George F. (quoted) 63, 107

Blossburg, Pa. 41–42

Brophy, John 109

By-products of coal 96–99

Calder, William M. 106

Central competitive field 66

Child labor 13–15

Church and industry 50, 113

Civil War (U. S.) 37, 41, 53

Civilization 11–21

Clearfield, Pa. 56

Coal resources of U. S. 26, 79

Coal resources of world 8–9, 78–79

Collective bargaining 54, 59–77

Committee on war and the religious outlook 50

Company stores 40–43

Consciousness of kind 9–12, 16–21

Consumption of coal 80–81

Economic surplus 2, 10–12, 15

England 22, 23

Exploitation of coal 24, 27, 38

Fact finding 35, 68, 105–107, 110–113

Federal trade commission 35, 105

Finance 112

Frelinghuysen, Joseph S. 106–107

Fuel administration 29–36, 90–91

Garfield, G. A. (quoted) 30, 111

Garfield, G. A. (quoted) 79, 111

Geology of coal 4–6

Giddings, F. H. (quoted) 17

Gilbert, Chester G. (quoted) 83–84, 97

Gompers, Samuel 57–58

Government investigations 106–107

Government regulation 27–36

(See also Fuel administration; Nationalization.)

Hammond, J. L. and Barbara (quoted) 13–15

Hanna, Mark 55, 63

Hawkins, Sir John 13

Hazards 44–47, 81

Hoover, Herbert (quoted) 34

Immigrant miners 42

Imperialism 25

Industrial democracy 50–53

Industrial revolution 2, 6–9, 22–23

Inventions 8, 102

Isolation 40

Kenyon, William S. 106

Knights of labor 57, 61

Lane, Franklin K. 91

Leeky, W. E. H. (quoted) 13

Lesher, C. E. (quoted) 31–32

Lloyd, Thomas 53

Management 76

McBride, John 59

Mine inspection 44–48

Miners 13–15

Miners' job 43–44

Miners' national association 54–58

Miners' unions 20, 38–49, 52–65

Mining law 44–48

Mining towns 40

Mitchell, John 61–65

National civic federation 63

National coal association 72, 107

National federation of miners and mine laborers 59

Nationalization 77, 108–110

Natural gas 87–88

Operators 46–47, 105

Operators' associations 72–75, 106–107

Overdevelopment 27–28, 59

Parsons, Floyd W. (quoted) 79

Pennsylvania, Secretary of internal affairs 43

Petroleum 83–87

Pogue, Joseph E. (quoted) 83–84, 97

Population and coal 7–8

Power 80, 88, 90–101

Power distribution 80

Public opinion 42, 44

Public utility, coal as a 31–32, 64

Railroad administration 31–32

Railroads 28, 31–32, 80

Rend, W. P. 59

Roosevelt, Theodore 48, 63–64, 66–67

Roy, Andrew (quoted) 39, 42, 44–45

Rushmore, D. B. (quoted) 79

Scrip 42

Sherman law 73, 77

Shortage of coal 29

Siney, John 54–56, 58

Smith, G. O. (quoted) 80

Solar power 1

"Statement of facts" 105

Steel industry 65–66

Steinmetz, Charles P. (quoted) 88

Strikes 40–41, 48, 62–64, 66–71, 75

Superpower plan 92–96, 100–101

Transportation of coal 28, 31–32, 80

Tryon, F. G. (quoted) 27, 77

Unemployment 81

United mine workers of America 61–77, 108–109

War 2, 26

Wastes 26, 38, 59, 76, 80–82, 96

Water power 88

Weaver, Daniel 52–53

Webb, Beatrice and Sidney (quoted) 50–51

West Virginia 40, 48, 61, 65–66, 74

Wilson, William B. 63

Wilson, Woodrow 71

Workingmen's benevolent association 54

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