Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1910 — MINERS DEMAND WAGE INCREASE [ARTICLE]

MINERS DEMAND WAGE INCREASE

Also a Uniform Rate for All Classes of Inside Labor. DELEGATES OHLY GO TO TOLEDO Demand Also that All Internal Differences, Both as to Price and Conditions, Be Referred to Dis. trlct Affected. Indianapolis, Feb. 1. —The convention of the United Mine Workers of America has decided on a demand for an advance of 10 cents a ton for pick mining and an equivalent advance for machine mining and a corresponding Increase for all day work, dead work, yardage, etc. It was further decided on a demand for a uniform rate of wages for*all classes of inside and outday day labor and time and a half for overtime, Sundays and holidays. It was decided to demand that all coal be weighed before screened, and paid for on that basis, and that the mine run rate in the different districts shall be at least equivalent to the screen coal prices. It was decided to demand a change in the sixty-eight hours from starting until quitting time, or what is commonly known as from bank to bank, with a half holiday on Saturday. It was decided that the contract period shall be from two years from April 1, 1910. The miners also demand that all local inequalities and internal differences, both as to prices and conditions, be referred to the districts affected. The convention after taking action along these lines in accordance with recommendation of the scale committee took up a section of tJe report regarding the entire convention going to Toledo and decided that the convention should remain in this city in session until its work was finished, and that only the delegates from the central competitive field should go to Toledo to attend, the interstate joint conference of miners and operators scheduled to begin today.