Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1919 — STRIKE IS THREATENED BY BLIND MEN IN STATE HOME. [ARTICLE]

STRIKE IS THREATENED BY BLIND MEN IN STATE HOME.

Philadelphia, Oct. 31.—Inmates of the Pennsylvania Working Home for Blind Men have presented demands for higher wages and threatened to strike next week unless they are granted. According to the blind men, who make brooms, whisks, carpets and cane work, their board has been raised with comparatively no increase in wages. They have formed an organization affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. Frederick H. Mills, superintendent of the institution, said: “I can’t see what the men can do, as this is their home and they can do nothing without hurting themselves. The real reason is that they have banded together and like the rest of the »vsrld have got the strike fever.”