Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1900-12-28 | Page 2 | Barnesboro Coal Miners Go out on a Strike

COAL MINERS GO OTTO ON A Pittsburg Dec 27 Six hundred min miners ers of the Bakerton Coal mines near Barnesboro on the Penn Pennsylvania sylvania railroad were today reported as on strike by National Organizer Ed Eduard McKay who visited the miners headquarters here The strike arises from the recent Introduction of mining machinery and mines of the com company pany have been forced to suspend op operations The coal company ie an interest of Duncan Spangler Co extensive coal operators of central Pennsylvania and Hastings is largely inter interested ested The miners are demanding ex extra tra remuneration for the labor entailed by the use of the machinery Questions are involved in relation to the mining scale that are likely to cause trouble Jn all of the Pennsyl Pennsylvania vania fields and which it will be im imperative to adjust Various district organizations of the miners are now meeting to arrange the wage scales to be submitted to the ria convention of the general body