Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1908 — Put 1,500 Miners to Work. [ARTICLE]

Put 1,500 Miners to Work.

Fort Smith. Ark., Nov. 27.—Thomas Moses, state mining inspector of Illinois: George Colville, of the Missouri miners, and Car) Sholtz. president of the Rock Island Coal company, a committee of arbitration to which was referred the shot-firing question which has tied up the mines at Denning. Ark., for eight months, have reported, upholding the contention of the miners that the workings are dangerous and recommending the employment of shotfirers. The report will be accepted by the operators and 1.500 men will go to work Monday.