Mr. President. owners of the coal mines would have no occasion whatever to complain about the removal of this tax upon coal. It has been their policy. so far as I understand it. to drive out American labor. naturalized and native born. and give i s place to a class of laborers brought into this country for the specific purpose of mining coal below living rates. If f am informed correctly there are something like six thousand coal miners in the State of Pennsylvania today who are under arms. who are violating the laws of that State in various strikes against a reduction of their wages. Their wages have been reduced to a point where a selfrespecting American citizen. if I am correctly informed. can not earn a livelihood for himself and his family. and he has been compelled by force of circumstances to cease mining coal and go into some other occupation or to go upon the streets in absolute idleness.
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