Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1897 — SCALE IS ADOPTED. [ARTICLE]

SCALE IS ADOPTED.

State Convention of Illinois Mine Workers Take Action. The Illinois State convention of the United Mine Workers at Springfield completed its business and adjourned. A scale was adopted by the convention which is said to be satisfactory to all coal miners in the State. The scale is based on the Pittsburg settlement scale and is about 6 per cent, below the scale adopted by the convention held In August. A resolution was adopted- by the convention which gives all miners the authority to return to work as soon as the operators agree to pay the scale. This resolution also provides that all miners who return to work at the scale price shall contribute 10 per cent, of their wages to the miners not working. Another resolution was adopted which censured the position the operators of the State had taken in not meeting with the miners to effect a settlement of the strike in Illinois. A learned professor at Geneva, Switzerland, states that France drinks more alcohol annually than any other nation tn Europe.