Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1909 — Pittsburg On the Eve of Coal Strike Affecting 20,000. [ARTICLE]

Pittsburg On the Eve of Coal Strike Affecting 20,000.

It is probable that 20,000 Pittsburg coal miners will go out on strike, although the action will be unsanctioned by either the national president of the coal miners union nor the national executive board. The local miners have refused to use a new kind of black powder for mining purposes. The president of the national association favored a trial of that and other powders but the president of the Pittsburg union refused any compromise, and the miners stood by him.