People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1895 — MINERS’ STRIKE SPREADING. [ARTICLE]

MINERS’ STRIKE SPREADING.

Repetition of Pennsylvania Riots of Last • Year Is Fearod. Pittsburg, Pa., March 7.—The coal miners' strike spread yesterday! It is now estimated three-fourths of the railroad and river 'diggers are idle. The total number of men out. is about 10,000. Bo far there lias been no trouble. A repetition of the mining riots of last year is expected if non-union men are put to work. The miners ’convention adjourned yesterday and the delegates went home in an angry mood. The proposition of the operators to hold another conference Saturday was voted down as a scheme to gain time. Telegi-ams were hurriedly sent to those miners who did not obey the strike order Monday. Up the Monongahela River not a pick was struck in the fourth and' fifth pools. The men at Boston on the Youghiogheny are. al»so out.