AMERICAN MINERS DEMAND INCREASES.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 53, 15 March 1912, Page 2

AMERICAN MINERS DEMAND INCREASES.

Seven-hour Day also Recommended by thsir Committee, An increase of 10 cents a ton, on a run-or'-inino basi?, and an increase* of 20 per cent, far all-clay labor about the mines, wore the demands which the wage scale committee submitted to the convention of the United Mine. Workers of America for the bituminous coal miners. Tlie committee also demanded a seven-hour day.

Embracing tli-c-.w cL>mfinds, a wage

contract to run for two years from April 1, i: , !.-, i;s lecouiiuiMi-ded ij.v liie conniiittee.

The -report further endorsed the demands of the millets ol the three autbraeito districts <jf Pennsylvania, which are: :Ju pr cent, incicasi.' in will's, an day, ami a contract for one year from April 1, li.M'J.

JS'o i-eroiiltiir-iidaUoli was made ;i.s i.) wheilwr n national strike should be called in event the operators refuse In a'cede to the miners' demands before April 1. The scale committee will leave it t<i the convention to determine whether the miners' district organisations shall be jHTinitted to sign wage contnu-is with their operators as rapidly as they enn be negotiated.