The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-04-19
WILL STRIKE IN MAY.
Soft Coal Miners Threaten ia
quit Work.
NOT SATISFIED WITH THEIR WAGES.
Operators Refuse to Yield to Their dc.
mands -- Golfers IN Four states A.
fected- Railways Making Prep
arations tor Trouble.
WANT NETTLH pay.


CHICAGO April III. The indications
are that May most Of the soft coal
miners OF Illinois, Indiana and lcnnsyl-
vania will go out on "a strike, and that
after that date the supply OF soft coal
will be limited. In view of this fact
many of the railroads are putting in
large supplies Of soft coal, a recent pur-
chase of the Atchison, Topeka a Santa
Fe amounting to $4,000 Many of the
coal dealers in this city have within the
last thirty hours received orders that
they can not fill within month
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, April 10 A re-
port which reached this city TO the Of
feet that the soft-cOal miners of the
State intended to inaugurate a strike
prise among the miners or operators
The operators do not seem inclined TO
accept the proposed scale, and the re-
suit will probably be the shut down OF
the mines in these regions.
SrREAToE, H., April l6.--Local deal
ers say that unless the strike movement
is general throughout the States of HI.
sylvana there will be no trouble here,
as the miners of this region will not toll
crate a repetition OF last years struggle
when other sections proiited by their
idleness.
CoLUMBrs, O., April III. At the Joint
convention OF miners and operators
Tuesday there were l5l miner, dele
ip, In, 4
$4,000 organized miners, Ohio having
~ delegates Illinois ~, Indiana 23, |
PENNSYLVANIA II, and West Virginia 4. |
There were about - coal operators, |
principally from Ohio and Pcnnsyl-
vania. The following committee on
scale of wages was appointed:
operators, Oscar Townsend and
berg and John NJ. FISHER, of Pennsyl-
vania; miners. Thomas Batchford and
Edward Thomas, Of Ohio, William
Barker and Abram Winders, of Penn
sylvania. The miners of Illinois and
Indiana thought that they should be
on the scale committee, as
they we're Interested in the question of
wages. i was decided that they could
have no more than an advisory connec-
ton.
At the joint convention of miners
and operators this morning the
scale committee reported they were
unable to agree. A new committee
was appointed with Watchorn and
Gca, Of the United Miners, and Jones,
he President Of the Ohio Association,
IS members The miners are asking an
increase of 20 per cent and IA reduction
n the hour, Of labor, but have practi-
,ally abandoned the latter.
brazil, Ind. April 10. The Indiana
,oal operate state as their reason for
'efusing to meet with the Miners Ma.
,iOnal Union at Columbus, o., TO fix a
'early scale, that Ohio and Pennsyl- ,
'ana operators have combined and have
determined the scale to tho operators
LABOR riot HIES N cHICAGO. d
CHICAGO, April III. The cloalt-makers' |
trike has been settled. The 300 men {
ave returned to work, +. Sicge & Bros.
grecing to pay the demand of fifteen t
ents advance on the dollar. The firm t
lso recognized the union
The embargo placed by the striking t
arpentcrs on building operations in c
hicago continues effective. The Of v
cial veto on labor extends not only to I
II of their own craft. but now ON braces
early all trades employed in architect
raj work.
At the close oi work Tuesday evening
he great majority Of the bricklayers,
lastercrs, lathcrS, painters and plumb
RS were laid OF indefinitely There
'as no more work for them TO do. All
ines OF work had reached the stop
ing place beyond which they could not
o without the assistance of the carpen-
prs.