Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1888 — THE INDUSTRIAL REALM. [ARTICLE]

THE INDUSTRIAL REALM.

At no time since the inauguration of the Schuylkill miners’ strike have the men been more thorough masters of the situation than now, says a leading dispatch of Wednesday. Every one of the forty-four Reading Company’s collieries is closed. The miners have assumed a more positive stand than ever before, and at meetings hold all over the region it has been decided not to go to work even if the 8 per cent advance is granted unless the 1,000 or more non-union railroad men—mostly engineers, brakemen, and conductors, all recently employed—are discharged, and all tho Knights d smissed during the recent railroad trouble are taken back. The miners will likewise refuse to work if non-union men haul the coal they turn out