People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1895 — FEDERATION OF MINERS. [ARTICLE]

FEDERATION OF MINERS.

Coal Workers of the Western States Are Admitted. Denver, Colo., May 15.—The most important work accomplished in many years in the interest of organised labor has been consummated by the convention of the Western Federation of Miners. The coal miners’ unions (representing thousands of men in several western and northwestern states) were admitted to membership in the federation. The step was made without any extended discussion,'such as was anticipated, and the proposition to admit carried by a heavy majority. The acquisition of the coal miners makes the Western Federation of Miners one of the most powerful labor bodies in the country.