"There is an increased uneasiness in shipping circles. The sailing of the White Star steamship Oceanic from the other side on March 27 was canceled because of the inability to get coal."-Trenton True American
The Coal Strike of 1912
"If and when the strike ends have you reflected on the automatic nemesis that awaits. It is the end of Labour either way. Caesar has come to his triumph and will die in it. But it is also the end of coal as a prime necessity. They have made all the minds of a nation active by causing bodily discomfort and have thereby supplied the very strongest possible stimulus to invention that even a Tyrant could have conceived. Consequently, over and above the bending of thousands of men's energies towards the discovery of more oil, the development of existing supplies, the refurnacing of ships, thousands more will pick up (with the dog whips of Pain, Fear and Hate behind 'em) the old unresolved but not insoluble problem of harnessing the tides."-Rudyard Kipling
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