People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1895 — A TEMPORARY AGREEMET. [ARTICLE]

A TEMPORARY AGREEMET.

No Trouble Expected for the Present In lowa Mines. Boone, la., May I.—The miners in the Fraser and Milford mines are at work under a temporary arrangement, the old price of last year being paid for the present. At Angus the price has been reduced to 80 cents per ton, and the mines are working full time. Saturday about 200 miners from the Milford and Fraser banks went to Angus to induce the latter miners to strike for the price paid at Milford, $1 per ton, but did not succeed. The men at Milford and Fraser, together with those of Logansport, are obstinately insisting on the old price, which the operators just as positively say they cannot pay. The matter is left in this shape by agreement until July 1, the operators taking out only sufficient coal to fill their contracts, which expire on that date, after which the mines will be closed if an agreement is not reached. It looks as if a deadlock would result. Only thirtysix mines £n Southern lowa are work- - ing under the scale rate and will soon quit. They are in the Appanoose district.