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On that day Clarence Darrow, dubbed “Attorney for the Damned” by Lincoln Steffens, finished his eight-hour summation in the three-months long arbitration hearings in the Anthracite Coal Miner’s Strike. Nearly 150,000 miners went out on strike in May. As winter approached the shortage of coal was becoming a national emergency. In a historic agreement in October, the miners agreed to return to work, promised that a commission of arbitration would hear their cause and render a binding decision on the recalcitrant mine operators. Before a panel of seven commissioners appointed by the President, Darrow pled the case of organized labor to a standing-room only crowd. Cameo appearances in this story are made by President Theodore Roosevelt, Mary Harris, aka “Mother Jones”, and J. P. Morgan. It is a great story culminating in a dramatic day.