AMERICAN COAL MINERS.
MANY RETURNING TO WORK.
(By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.)
Received this day, 9.35 a.m. NEW YORK, October 3
Coal operators and miners alike believe that the strike settlement, which is effective throughout Illinois, is likely to influence a settlement in other centres.
Seven thousand two hundred have already returned to work in New York and Illinois, but the situation in Indiana, Ohio, lowa and Missouri is not affected. A walk-out of bituminous coalminers on the Middle West fields commenced at the end of March, over 150,000 being affected. The trouble was due to the operators’ refusal to renew the existing wage scale of 71 dollars a day. The operators - insisted that they could not continue the operation of competing with non-union mines, which paid from 4£ to 5 dollars a day.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 October 1927, Page 8
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