Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1902 — SENATOR PLATT PREDICTS END OF MINERS’ STRIKE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SENATOR PLATT PREDICTS END OF MINERS’ STRIKE.

Senator Thomas C. Platt declared in the most positive terms in New York the other night that the coal strike would be settled Within two weeks. “How will it be settled? Will there be arbitration or will an agreement be reached between tlie miners and the operators?” was asked. “I cannot tell you how it will be settled,” Senator Platt replied, “but there will be no coal sold at $lO a ton this winter. It will surely be settled at the longest within two weeks from this time.” Senator Platt declined to tell why lie was so confident that the strike was nearing its end, but he spoke as a man who had no doubt in his own mind that what he said would prove to be true.

SENATOR PLATT.