People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1895 — MINERS FAVOR A STRIKE. [ARTICLE]

MINERS FAVOR A STRIKE.

Officials of the Indiana Union Asked to Call Out the Men. Shelburn, Ind., July 25. —A massmeeting of the miners of Star City, Shelburn and Currysville was held here yesterday and delegates chosen to wait on President Purcell and Secretary Kennedy, state officers of the miners’ organization, and ask them to order a strike immediately. Upon their failure to comply with the request the delegates were instructed to demand the resignation of both President Purcell and Secretary Kennedy and the surrender of the charter of the different local assemblies throughout the county. The delegates were further instructed to visit the Clinton miners and use all honorable means to induce them to cease work at thhe 51-cent rate scale. The miners are very outspoken on the action taken by the officers, and denounce the temporary settlement.