They wanted to avenge a 10-percent wage increase granted the
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- The House of Morgan - An American Banking Dynasty and the whole source · open book
They wanted to avenge a 10-percent wage increase granted the miners in 1900—a deal that Pierpont had helped to broker—and reacted to the strikers with feudal ferocity. By the fall of 1902, schools were shut in New York for lack of coal, and the Republicans feared retribution in the elections.
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