Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1898 — MINERS WIN. [ARTICLE]

MINERS WIN.

Long Conference in Chicago Results in Advancing Wage r'cule. The interstate joint convention in Chicago of the bituminous coal operators and miners came to an end. The miners are jubilant over the results of their ten days’ session, for it means to nearly 200,000 soft coal miners an advance of ten cents per ton and a uniform day of eight hours at a uniform day wage, and the operators congratulated one another with the victory over themselves. The following resolutions were adopted with but two dissenting votes: Resolved, That an advance of 10 cents per ton for mining screened coal is to take effect In Western Pennsylvania, Hocking Valley (Ohio) .and the Indiana bituminous district on ttte first day of April, 1808; that the relative run-miue price will be determined in all districts named by the uniform flat or apron-shaped bar screen, seventy-two feet superficial area, and one and one-fourth inch space between the bars;; that the price of run-mine coal in Grape Creek district and in the Indiana bituminous district be 40 cents per ton for the same district, based upon 00 cents in the Pittsburg thin-vcin district, and that in the Hocking Valley and Indiana; and that on and after April 1, 1808, an eighthour day shall be In effect in all districts here represented; that uniform wages for day labor shall be paid to the different classes of labor In the field named; that Internal differences in any States, both as to price and conditions, shall be referred to the States affected; that we further agree to use the diamond bar screen, present pattern, in the block district of Indiana with the privilege of run-mine, as may be desired by market conditions.”