Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1901 — New Scale for Miners. [ARTICLE]

New Scale for Miners.

The wages contract which has been signed by the Indiana operators and miners for the ensuing year gives the miners an advance of pay from $2.10 to $2.25 for one class of inside day labor and from $2.28 to $2.30 for another class, and grants recognition of their organization for outside labor, such as engineers and blacksmiths who had their own labor organizations and wanted to be recognized independently. There is, however, some feeling over the concession to the operators of the clause requiring miners to buy powder from their employers at $1.75 a keg.