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Somerset Coal Strike

     The following resolution adopted at a mass meeting of miners of the Consolidation Coal Company, a Rockefeller interest, held at Acosta, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, on October 9, constitutes the answer of the Company's employees on strike since April to the Company's suggestion that it will settle only on a basis of dealing with individuals.
     Representatives of the striking miners in New York saw officials of the Consolidation Company and reported back to the miners in Somerset County.  The mass meeting was the result of the report.
     These miners together with those of the Berwind-White Coal Company are part of the 20,000 non-union men who struck for union recognition, along with 45,000 in the Connellsville field also still on strike.


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