People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1896 — Miners Better Off Before. [ARTICLE]

Miners Better Off Before.

Columbus, 0., April 15.—1 n the report of Secretary and Treasurer Patrick Mcßryde to the United States MineWorkers of America he says the coal trade was better prior to 1890, when this association was formed, than it is now. The two Virginias and their cheap coal had much to do with effecting the changed conditions. Formerly all their coal went to the Atlantic seaboard. Today there is more West Virginia coal in Chicago than Ohio coal, though the former has to pass through Ohio en route to Chicago.