Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1895-05-02 | Page 1 | Strike Complete

STRIKE COMPLETE In West Virginia Coal Fields Not a Single Mine is in Operation Bluefields W Va May 1The strike is on in the West Virginia coalfields coal-fields along the Norfolk Western railroad Not a single mine is in operation oper-ation A meeting 15000 miners was held at Keystone today to organize and perfect measures to induce or force the Pocahontas W Va men to join the strike No dissatisfaction exists ex-ists among the Virginia miners as they have not been cut In the event of their refusal to join the strike force doubtless will be attempted The West Virginia miners are swarming into Virginia on every train and the situation situa-tion is alarming The cut of 20 percent per-cent in wages was never contemplated by the Virginia companies and there are only a few union men among them In the event of trouble at Pocahontas the Virginia miners only number 900 against 15000 West Virginia miners