In the anthracite coal field in Eastern Pennsylvania the difficulties met by the United Mine Workers were at first far greater than in the bituminous branch of the industry.
In a strike by anthracite coal miners in the following year an award was made by a Presidential board of three, representing the employers, the union, and the public.
This was the well-known Anthracite Coal Strike Commission.
It is unnecessary to detail the events of the anthracite strike.
A special union convention was then held to consider whether the bituminous miners should be called out in sympathy with the hard pressed striking miners in the anthracite field.
In none of the "trustified" industries, save anthracite coal, was labor organization able to make any headway.
A more severe test came in 1902 during the great anthracite strike.
Early in May the union and the operators reached an agreement to leave the award of the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission in force for another three years.
During the general strike of 1897 the United Mine Workers made a beginning in organizing the anthracite miners.
It is asserted by some, that, because peat can be condensed so as to approach anthracite in specific gravity, it must, in the same ratio, approach the latter in heating power.
Heating Power of Peat as Compared with Wood andAnthracite 96 4.
The composition and density of the best condensed peat is compared with that of hard wood and anthracite in the following statement:-- In 100 Carbon.
The development of the anthracite coal-field lying to the north and west of Swansea (from which port it is mostly shipped) dates mainly from the closing years of the 19th century, when the demand for this coal grew rapidly.
In the anthracite coal field I saw a dozen Slovaks just arrived from Hungary, but persuaded by their unionized precursors not to take the places of strikers.
The first to draw upon these sources in large numbers were theanthracite coal operators of Pennsylvania.
The most important anthracite mines are found in the eastern United States, and hard coal is used more in this section than elsewhere.
Coal is of two kinds, anthracite and bituminous, or hard and soft.
In my judgment, the tariff on anthracite coal should be removed, and anthracite put actually, where it now is nominally, on the free list.
To this we must add the great neglect of economy as well as health in substituting unhealthful gaslight, poisonous, anthracite warmth, for the life-giving light and warmth of the sun.
Doubtless some carbonic oxide finds its way into all furnace-heated houses, especially whereanthracite is used; the amount varying with the kind of furnace and its management.
Recent pamphlets lay the blame of all the bad effects of anthracite furnaces and stoves to the carbonic oxide mingled in the air.
It will be well to provide two barrels of charcoal for kindling to every ton of anthracite coal.
It is always formed in great abundance in any anthracite fire, but especially in anthracite stoves and furnaces.
In graphitizing en masse large lumps of anthracite are treated in the electric furnace.
This is the only way to put out an anthracite fire, whether in a grate or a stove.
If you have an anthracite fire in your chamber, and wish to extinguish it on retiring for the night, take the tongs, and lifting off some of the largest coals from the top, lay them beneath the grate.
Lois set her lips together, and then glimpsed herself in the large mirror over the anthracite stove.
By the time of the Civil War these bullies had terrorized the entire anthracite region.
In 1868 a famine drove the first of these immigrants to America, where they were soon absorbed by the anthracite mines of Pennsylvania.
Among the anthracite coal miners a society was formed, probably about 1854, called the Molly Maguires, a name long known in Ireland.
A ton of anthracite or a cord of hickory will keep you warm all winter, especially if you die before spring, as you probably will.
The Pittsburg Coal Company owns about one-seventh of the great Pennsylvania anthracite fields.
Anthracite coal was known in this country only as a hard black rock.
The three hundred excursionists, who had journeyed from the Anthracite fields of Pennsylvania to welcome the 311th boys, had a difficult time to locate the Edward Luckenbach.
The Teutonic anthracite again, as we see in Luthers, Leibnitzes, Shakespeares, is preferable for smelting metals.
Next in importance is adapting draft to fuel: small anthracite requires a draft of 1.
We ought to add that another peculiarity of the Anthracite is that she uses the same boiler water over and over, only a trifle of fresh water being supplied to make good the slight waste.
Our New York steamboat men, who have to pay so dear for Croton water, will be likely to examine the water tank of the Anthracite with interest.
In this respect the voyage of the Anthracite is designed by her owners, we presume, to be an eye-opener for steamboat owners, not only in this country but throughout the world.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "anthracite" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
