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==In Pennsylvania== {{see also|History of anthracite coal mining in Pennsylvania}} Shortly before the [[Great Depression]], Pennsylvania's [[anthracite]] industry collapsed, shutting down [[collieries]] and throwing tens of thousands of miners out of work.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Bootleg Coal Rebellion|url=https://coalcorncountry.com/the-bootleg-coal-rebellion/|website=Coal, Corn & Country|accessdate=9 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170421060454/https://coalcorncountry.com/the-bootleg-coal-rebellion/|archive-date=21 April 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> Unemployed miners dug their own coalholes, often on company property, and began setting up bootleg breakers and trucking operations, creating an entire bootleg coal industry. According to a 1938 report commissioned by Governor [[George Howard Earle]], there were as many as 1,965 bootleg holes, operated by over 7,000 bootleg miners, producing 2,400,000 tons of coal per year.<ref>{{cite web|title=textsReport of the Anthracite Coal Industry Commission. Harrisburg, July 30,1938|url=https://archive.org/details/reportofanthraci00penn|website=Archive.org|publisher=Commonwealth of Pennsylvania|accessdate=9 June 2017}}</ref> By 1941, miners and police clashed over the dynamiting of their coalholes.<ref>{{cite news|title=Police Blow Up Bootleg Mine; 30 Hurt in Riot|url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1941/10/18/page/1/article/police-blow-up-bootleg-mine-30-hurt-in-riot|accessdate=9 June 2017|publisher=Chicago Daily Tribune|date=17 October 1941}}</ref>
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