People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1895 — TROUBLE AMONG MINERS. [ARTICLE]

TROUBLE AMONG MINERS.

Convention at Pittsburg Derides to Hold Out for 69-Cent Rate. Pittsburg, Pa., April 23.—The miners' convention adjourned yesterday after being in session all day. It was expected that the operators would agree to a conference, but in this the miners were disappointed. The attendance was much larger than Saturday, and the river mines, which have been working at the 69-cent rate, were well represented. All the delegates from up the river brought with them considerable money, which was divided among the idle strikers. A resolution to hold out for the 69-cent rate was introduced and according to the press committee* was carried unanimously. The convention then adjourned. It was suggested to one of the delegates that the action of the convention was possibly a mistake, when the delegate replied: “We waited all day for a conference with the operators and they thought they would ignore us. We will now give them a chance to make good their hluff of starting their mines at the 6Qcent rate. There are more men working at the 69-cent rate than is generally supposed. We might just as well starve in Idleness as In working.” Henry Floersheim says he will begin operating the Nottingham mine, on the Wheeling division of the Baltimore & Ohio, this morning, and has sixty men ready to go to work. As the situation now stands there probably will be trouble throughout the district and plenty of work for deputy sheriffs.