That not what this is saying. Its saying that while legally it may be wrong, morally its understandable and the writer would stand with her in stealing the coal for her family.
I read a story 20 years or so ago, I think it was New York or Phillidelphia, may be a bit off in the memory. It was about a lady during the great depression that was arrested for stealing a loaf of bread to feed her children. The judge told the other defendants , that were in the court on misdemeanor charges, that their cases would be dropped if they gave the woman a dollar each. The baker that she had taken the bread from had pitch in to. If I remember correctly , she got around 37 bucks. A fairly large sum of money in the 1930s. Wish I remembered the story better, hope it was true. It might have been in Readers Diegst magazine.
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