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So in the next mining season, when workers and operators entered into fresh disputes over the 1870 contract, he organized a loose ( for the time being ) combination of anthracite haulers that uniformly hiked freight rates to prohibitive levels, thereby cutting mine operators ' revenues so ultimately to force the miners into accepting wages that the combination wanted.
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