AMERICAN STRIKE
150,000 MEN IDLE COALFIELDS DISPUTE WAGES QUESTION CAUSES TROUBLE By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Received 10.21 a.m. INDIANAPOLIS, Wednesday. The strike of union coalminers in the bituminous fields of the Middlewest has already started nearly 48 hours ahead of the general strike scheduled for midnight on March 31. Reports indicate that many miners, especially from the southern Illinois fields, have decided to leave work ahead of the schedule time, and find new employment in their respective communities. Approximately 150,000 men stop work at the hour appointed. The strike is due to * refusal of operators to renew the present wage scale, which is seven and a-half dollars a day. The operators insist that they cannot continue operation while competing with non-union mines, which pay only four and a-half to five dollars daily. The strike wili be effected without disorders.—Sun.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 9, 1 April 1927, Page 13
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