Efforts will be made to move this coal, and it is feared that the strikers will then become violent and riotous. Up to the present time they have been very peaceable.
The Governor of Indiana has asked the Governors of Ohio, Illinois, and Pennsylvania to meet him, and discuss plans for arbitrating the difficulty.
England also has her labor troubles. A great strike is going on in London among the engineers.
It is a struggle for an eight-hour working day.
The men do not insist that they shall only work eight hours a day, but that eight hours shall be considered the full day's labor, and all the work they do over that shall be regarded as overtime, and paid for.
The strikers have a large fund in reserve to fall back upon, from which they will each receive a certain weekly sum to give them the necessaries of life until the trouble is adjusted.
The fight promises to be a long and bitter one, for the employers declare that they must hold out till they win, as defeat means ruin to them.
The ship-building trade will be the one most seriously affected by the strike.