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Manufacturers who resisted government intervention on behalf of striking miners demanded it when mine-owners raised the price of coal. This reversal sharpens Eugen von Philippovich’s contemporary report on the January–March 1900 strike in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia. He follows a struggle for shorter hours and better pay that mobilized at least 60,000 workers but ended in exhaustion, failed mediation, and weakened labour leadership. Sympathetic to the miners yet critical of leaders who prolonged a struggle they believed unwinnable, Philippovich also examines the limits of solidarity among employers. His account connects the defeat at the pits with the subsequent conflict over coal prices, showing how control of an indispensable fuel made a wage dispute a question of public regulation.