Download or read book The Coal War written by Upton Sinclair and published by Boulder : Colorado Associated University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The son of a prominent coal magnate, Hal Warner is horrified by the dangerous working conditions, long hours, and starvation wages endured by the men who toil in his family's mines. He tries to rouse other members of his privileged class to a similar state of indignation, but soon faces a much more severe test of his progressivism. When a labor group organizes a massive strike and the mining companies respond with punishing brutality, Hal's commitment to the cause of reform becomes a matter of life and death.