In the small establishment there had been a friendly human relationship between employer and employee. There was no such relation between the great railway magnates. who controlled the anthracite Industry. and the 150.000 men who worked their mines. or the 500.000 women and children who were dependent upon these miners for their daily bread. Very few of these mine workers had ever seen. for instance. the president of the Reading RaIlroad. [lad they seen him many of them could not have spoken to him for tens of thousands of the mine workers were recent Immigrants who did not understand the language which he spoke and who spoke a language which he could not understand. Again. a few generations ago. an American workman could have saved money. gone West. and taken up a homestead. Now the free lands were gone.
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