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are subject to a 54-hour working week. How about that? { A—The union's contract with the vernment, which Mr, Lewis has dertaken to set aside, says that work performed on the sixth conBecutive day is optional” In practice, mines whose product is most in demand offer opportunity to

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work & six-day, 54-hour week, while other ‘mines offer five: days or less. But no miner can be required to work 54 hours unless he wants to do so. Q-—How is miners’ pay calculated? A—It is based on a nine-hour day-—seven of the hours at straight time; two at time and a half, If a sixth consecutive day is worked, the miner gets time and a half for all nine hours. The paid hours include “portal-to-portal” travel time within the mine and a 15minute lunch period. Q—How much can miners earn under the government contract? A—$44.25 a week for working 35 hours in five days at straight-time rates; $59.25 for 45 hours in five days; $76.25 for a full 54-hour, sixday week. Q—How does this compare with their prewar wages? A~The average weekly wage In soft-coal mines in 1939 was $23.88, Q-—How do miners’ incomes compare with those of other workers? A—Their $62.37 average weekly

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an average of $4.00 Tor workers in manufacturing industries, $59.37 in private building construction, $32.97 in ‘retail trade, Q—How does the miners’ gain in earnings compare with increased cost of living? A—The government's consumer price index rose 443 per cent from 1939 to August, 1946. In the same period the hourly wage rate of soft-coal miners rose 65 per cent, while their average weekly earnings rose 261 per cent as a result of more hours of work available, more overtime and other pay adJustments.

Q=When did the miners last get a pay rise? A—-On May 20, 1946. The contract then signed hy the government and Mr, Lewis gave them an igcrease of $1.85 a day, calculated to be 18'% cents an hour for straight

also gave them other concessions which increased their incomes beyond the gain in wage rates, Q—What pay increases does Mr. Lewis want for-them now? A—He has not made public his specific demands, but he is reported to want the working week reduced to 40 hours “without loss of takehome pay.” This apparently means

Q~How much did coal production increase? A—From an average of 32,906,000

tons a month in August, 1046—a 63 per cent gain. Q—How about the cost of coal to consumers?

miners would get for a 40-hour week

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do migrate by walking on the ground or burrowing beneath it. To study the rate and distances of such migrations, tiny disks of radioactive material were glued beneath the wing-covers of captured specimens, which were then released. The Geiger-Muller counter, of a special typé, was carried over the ground, its ticking indicating where the radioactively “tagged” bettles were. It could spot them even when they had burrowed as much as four inches deep.

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A_card party will be mittees of Fidelity Rebekah lodge 237 and Indianapolis lodge 465 at 8:15 p. m. tomorrow at 1608’ Prospect st.

The Past Matrons and Past Patrons associafion of Marion county will exemplify the old work of 1870 at Landmark chapter at a meeting tomorrow night in the Masonic temple.

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Golden Rule chapter 413, O. E 8, will hold a stated meeting and confer degrees at 8 p. m. tomorrow at the Masonic temple. Mrs. Viola G. Lindholm is worthy matron and Fred F. Uhl, worthy patron.

Indianapolis Shrine 6, White Shrine of Jerusaleum, was to hold its annual fall festival and frolic this afternoon and evening at the I. O. O. F. hall. Members of the committee in charge will be Mrs. Minnie Crum, Mrs. Pans Wiles, Miss Edna Hollowell, Mrs. Bessie , Mrs. , Mrs. rs. Ruth

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