Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1898 — Miners' Jubilee. [ARTICLE]

Miners' Jubilee.

Springfield, 111., April 2.—A massmeeting under the auspices of the Springfield Federation of Labor was held at the state house Friday afternoon and evening and was well attended. The meeting was in celebration of the eight-hour scale. Gov. Tanner delivered the address of welcome at the afternoon session, in which he said that labor had the same right to organize as did capital.