Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1899 — Miners and Operators Agree. [ARTICLE]

Miners and Operators Agree.

The wage contracts tor the two coall fields in Indiana, bituminous and block! were agreed upon at Terre Haute. Opl erators and miners alike are predicting a| year of steadier employment in the iudns-f try now employing 80,000 or 90,000 meu,| than in any since coal was first mined is, the Stat*.- It wa* agreed that thetal should be two pay days a month. At Bra-1 zil, a meeting of the scale committee of] operators and miners was held, and thtj Pittsburg agreement was signed, with tiM proviso that the miners are to set thdii prop®- - _ I