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GREAT U.S. COAL STRIKE WASHINGTON, March 24. Mr. J. D. Rockefeller, jun., who described himself as “a layman in the industry and merely an investor, trying to do his best with the great responsibilities his father has placed upon him," and Charles M. Schwab, head of the U.S. Steel Trust, who called himself “a plain, blunt steelworker from Pittsburg," mot the Senate Commerce Committee yesterday for the purpose of discussing difficulties in the coal industry. A quarter of a million men are striking .at tho present time. Both men claimed that their ambition was to establish better relations between capital and labor, but neither would commit ' himself in favor of unionising industry.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16622, 13 April 1928, Page 9
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