People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1896 — Indiana Miners Want an Advance. [ARTICLE]

Indiana Miners Want an Advance.

Terre Haute, Ind., Jan. 9. —The conyention y>f bituminous miners of Indiana adopted a report in favor of an advance in the mining scale from 60 to 66 cents, to take effect April 1, the date when the Pittsburg district price is to be advanced from 64 to 70 cents. President Purcell was instructed to ask President Talley of the operators’ association for a joint conference.