Review of reviews and world's work . dividends upon a huge volume of im-proper capitalization. But for this artificialsituation, which—morally, if not technically—constitutes the most flagrant violation of theSherman anti-trust law to be found in the wholecountry, the public could have cheap coal, theminers could have fair wages, and the railroadscould charge a reasonable pi-ice for Roosevelt, when called upon, early inJune, to tiy to bring about a settlement of thecoal strike, showed that the law under which thePullman strike was investigated had subsequentlybeen repe
Review of reviews and world's work . dividends upon a huge volume of im-proper capitalization. But for this artificialsituation, which—morally, if not technically—constitutes the most flagrant violation of theSherman anti-trust law to be found in the wholecountry, the public could have cheap coal, theminers could have fair wages, and the railroadscould charge a reasonable pi-ice for Roosevelt, when called upon, early inJune, to tiy to bring about a settlement of thecoal strike, showed that the law under which thePullman strike was investigated had subsequentlybeen repealed. But Col. Carroll D. Wright, ashead of the Department of Labor, made certaininquiries into the facts for the Presidents infor-mation. The public would like to read his report. o ,. .-. Much inconvenience was caused, es- Substitutes ... ^r 1 1 11 for pecially in New York, where hardAnthracite. ^^^^ ]ias been almost exclusively used,by the shrinkage in the anthracite output. Attention was naturally drawn to the question of. Tnic io(;knt may sitftku tiik as the —From the Jukdht? (Detroit). THE PROGRESS OF THE JVORLD. 19 substitutes for liard coal, and the use of petro-leum as a fuel was determined upon in variousquarters. A number of tank steamers were char-tered for bringing crude petroleum from the newTexas oil fieUis for consumption in New York,and naval experts announced successful experi-ments in the use of oil as a substitute for coal inthe furnaces of warships. The chief substitute,however, for hard coal was to be found in theabundant and widespiead deposits of the bitumi-nous article ; and the stiikers soon found thatunless they could greatly curtail the output of thesoft-coal mines, their strike was doomed to cer-tain failure. Accordingly, a convention of theUnited Mine Workers of America was called byan order issued on June 17, to meet in the middleof July at Indianapolis, to consider the questionof a sympathetic strike among all the organizedc
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