Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1908 — SCALE COMMITTEE REPORTS [ARTICLE]

SCALE COMMITTEE REPORTS

"Wtat the U. M. W. Proposes as a Settlement of the Deadlock at the Coal Mines. The convention of the United Mine Workers of America adojurned for the day at Indianapolis Wednesday after changing the next national convention from St. Louis to Indianapolis and hearing the unanimous report of the scale committee, which recommended annual settlements by districts with present conditions and the present scale as a minimum, local differences to be settled in the several districts. For nearly a week the committee was divided on the proposition to allow the miners to sign a scale by districts, or If no district agreement could be reached to sign with operators Individually. Another proposition was to make one mors effort to rehabilitate the Interstate agreement The agreement was reached as a compromise. It Is expected the report of the committee will be argued at length on the floor of the convention today.