Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1919 — MINERS WANT SIX HOUR DAY [ARTICLE]

MINERS WANT SIX HOUR DAY

RECOMMEND OUSTING OF BURLESON AND RECOGNITION OF IRISH REPUBLIC. Terre Haute, Ind., July 10.— Resolutions adopted by the convention of district number eleven, United Mine Workers of America, today announce a policy for nationalization of mines, six-hour day, five--day week and substantial increase of wages. The program formulated by the policy committee was incorporated in the resolutions with amendments which provide that the advance in wages be forty per cent on all classes of work with a minimum wage of $7 for a day of six hours. Other resolutions adopted recommend the resignation of PostmasterGeneral Burleson, recognition of the independence of Ireland, release of all political prisoners and government control of wholesale houses to fix prices on food products. , The legislative committee was directed in a resolution to ask the special session of the Indiana general assembly to define hazzard in industry and to enact legislation to make effective the workmen’s compensation law.