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J.P. Morgan meets for conferences about the coal miner strike, concluding that “he positively will not in any way interfere with the progress of the strike.”

White brick-layers go on strike when contractors hire blacks over them. The Planet suggests that African American bricklayers form their own unions, since they are excluded from whites’.

The Colored National Real Estate and Brokers’ Association advertises an employment opportunity for a “lady bookkeeper.”

Despite challenges in leadership of the Virginia Baptist State Convention, there is “not a ruffle on the water” because many are “endeavoring to bring forth the olive branch of peace.” The meeting praised the black people who tried to “help…

“A threatening crowd” of over 1,000 “hooting and hollering” strikers quit work and stone many non-union workers.

The Planet installs a new Mergenthaler Linotype printing press and a “Century” press in its office.

A planned explosion in a mine ignites coal residue, and a large explosion bursts from the mine killing twenty one men.

Twenty lives lost after “premature blast of dynamite” in a stone quarry near South Bethlehem, the “one thousand pounds of dynamite” left the bodies of the victims hurled hundreds of feet from the explosion sight.

A Virginia judge denies the legitimacy of the True Reformers’ Bank, citing the business’s “peculiar laws.”

The Planet defends the True Reformers’ Bank from accusations about its legitimacy, describing the bank as a “regularly chartered” business.