HEAVY DEMANDS OF AMERICAN MINE WORKERS

Grey River Argus, 14 October 1948, Page 5

HEAVY DEMANDS OF AMERICAN MINE WORKERS

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. The United Mine Workers’ annual conference to ; day approved a wage ■)olicy calling for a general pay increase, a shorter working week, an increased royalty fund, and other improvements. The conference’s wage scale committee referred to the Union President, Mr John L. Lewis and the National Policy Committee, resolutions which would reduce the working week to 30 hours, increase the royalty payment to the Welfare Fund from 20 to 40 cents a ton; increase the annual vacation pay of 100 dollars to 200 dollars; lengthen the, vacation from one week to two weeKs; extend the paid lunch neriod from 30 minutes to one hour, and require the mine owners to pay for all supphe-. and equipment, and much of the mining work, not now compensated ■ The committee recommended tnar the conference avoid detailing demands to give Mr Lewis the wides possible latitude in the 1949 wag..