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In 1902 United Mine Workers called a strike to protest their low wages. Roosevelt insisted that both sides submit to arbitration, a settlement in which an empartial third party decides on a legally binding solution. TR threatened to use the army to seize and operate the mines. In 1903 arbitrators granted the miners a 10 percent raise and reduced their workday from 10 hours to 9.

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