Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1902 — MINERS WANT COMPLETE TIE-UP [ARTICLE]

MINERS WANT COMPLETE TIE-UP

Plan to Create Scarcity of Coal byi Closing All Mines. A tie-up of every industry in the country is planned to bring victory to the anthracite coal miners in their present strike. If carried out as now predicted business of all kinds will be inconvenienced. It is the desire of the strikers that a special national convention of the United Mine Workers of America be called as soon as practical for the purpose of endeavoring to have all bituminous mine workers, both organized and unorganized, involved in the anthracite miners' struggle. This announcement was officially made by President John Mitchell in a statement giving the result of the deliberations of the delegates in convention. If a special national convention is called and the miners succeed in their object it would directly affect 449,000 men, who are employed in and about the coal mines of the country. Coal would soon become scarce and this ultimately would result in the tying up of railroads and all sorts of industries that use large quantities of the fuel.