COAL SUPPLY
THREATENED.
AMERICAN MINERS' GRIEVANCES
(BT CABLE—MESS ASSOCIATION —COFYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. . CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received July sth, 5.5 p.m.)
XEW YORK, July 4.
A message from Scranton (Pennsylvania) states that the anthracite miners' convention here demanded a 10 per cent, wage increase. The operators are expected to insist on. a deduction on the present scale. A conference between tho two groups is scheduled for July, in an attempt to effoct an agreement before August Ist, when a. new schedule will he necessary. John Lewis, the international president of the United Mine Workers, threatened a general strike of half a million anthracite and bituminous miners" if tho operators continue increasing the employment of non-union labour. The union has virtually been driven out in West Virginia, where union-produced coal is now 10 per cent, of the total, compared with DO per cent, five years ago. Tho operators contended that it was- impossiblo to conduct the mines on the seven and a quarter dollars a day union scale, and closed tho pits, which were reopened a few weeks later at a non-union scalo of between four and fivo dollars. Since then tho operators in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Kentucky have acted likewise. Tho union leaders contend that this is a concerted effort to kill the organisation throughout the country. Government officials arc apprehensive of a possibility of complete lack of fuel for the winter.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18426, 6 July 1925, Page 9
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231COAL SUPPLY Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18426, 6 July 1925, Page 9
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