AMERICAN MINERS
" - ' -» BITUMINOUS GOAL WORKERS GENERAL WALK-OUT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK.-..March’ 30. (Received March 31, at 11.10 a.m.) Indianapolis reports that the walkout of the bituminous coal miners on the Middle West fields has already started, nearly forty-eight hours ahead of the general walk-out scheduled for midnight on March 31. Reports indicate that many miners, especially on the Southern Illinois fields, decided to quit ahead of schedule time to find new employment in their respective corammunities. Approximately 150,000 will drop tools at the hour appointed. Tho trouble is due to the operators’ refusal to renew the present wage scale of 7sdol a day. The operators insist that they cannot continue operation, as they are competing with non-union mines, which pay 4Jdol to sdol a day. The walkout will be effected without disorders.
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Evening Star, Issue 19521, 31 March 1927, Page 9
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133AMERICAN MINERS Evening Star, Issue 19521, 31 March 1927, Page 9
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