Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1910 — 45,000 MINERS QUIT ON OHIO [ARTICLE]

45,000 MINERS QUIT ON OHIO

Next Move, President Green Says, Is to Sign Up New Scale. Toledo, 0., April I.—According to President William Green of the Ohio miners 45,000 miners in subdistricts in Ohio laid down their picks and quit work at midnight last night, as the present wage agreement expired at that time. The next move, Mr. Green saya, will be to invite the various associations of operators in Ohio to meet with representatives of the state organizations of miners to sign the 5.55 per cent increase in wages.