Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1910 — CHICAGO MILLS MAY CLOSE [ARTICLE]

CHICAGO MILLS MAY CLOSE

Bunsen Coal Co. Seek to Keep Miners Busy In Danville District.

Danville, 111., April 1. —The Bunsen Coal company, which is controlled by the Illinois Steel company, is trying to arrange with the miners' union tocontinue operations pending the signing of a new wage contract. The company employs 1,500 miners. It has not a pound of coal in reserve, and one of the officers said that unless they secured permission to continue mining the big steel mills at South Chicago would be compelled to shut down. The company promises to pay the new wage scale from today. Many of the miners favor continuing work.