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Show MEMORANDUM OF THE AGREEMENT GONE INTO The contract or "memorandum of Agreement" nppended to the statement is ns follows: "It is mutually understood nnd Agreed thnt in Addition to tho rights nnd privileges guaranteed the employes nnd tho compnny, in the industrial representation plan herewith, the following stipulations respecting employment, living nnd working conditions, shall govern the parties hereto from the dnte of their signatures hereon until Jnnunry 1, 1918, nnd shall continue thereafter subject to revision upon ninety days' notice by either of the pnrtics. "The charge to employes for dwellings without bath shall not exceed two dollars per month. "The present uniform chnrgo of forty cents per electric light per month with free light on porches, shall not be increased. in-creased. "There shnll be no chnrgo for domestic water, except in cases where the company is obliged to purchase the same. In such cases the charges shnll be substantially their cost to the company. "The rates to be chnrged employes for powder and domestic coal shall be substantially their cost to tho company. "To encourage employes to cultivate flowers nnd vegetable gardens, the company agrees to fence, free of charge, each house lot owned by it. "The company will continue its practice of removing gnr-hage gnr-hage free of charge. "As the need becomes manifest, tho company will continue lt present policy of providing, ns rapidly as possible, sultAblo bathhouses and social centers in the nature of club houses, for its employes at the several mining camps. "Eight hours shall constitute n day's work for nil underground under-ground employes. This shall mean eight hours exclusive of tho noon hour and tho time required to go nnd come from the mine opening to the place of employment. "Nine hours shnll constitute n day's work for nil outside labor, except firemen nnd engineers. "All employes shall be paid semi-monthly by check. ' "No deductions shnll be made from earnings except where authorized by employes. "No change nffecting conditions of employment with respect re-spect to wages or hours shall be made without first giving thirty days' notice, ns provided by statute. "Tho schedule of wages and the working conditions now in force in tho several districts shall continue without reduction, but If, prior to Jnnunry 1, 1918, a general increase shnll bo granted, in competitive districts In which the company does not conduct operations, n proportionate Increase shnll be mnde. For this purpose a joint meeting of tho miners' representatives repre-sentatives nnd proper officers of tho compnny shall bo called within thirty dnys after the Increase In competitive districts is effective to discuss nnd determine nn equitable method for fixing tho new scale In tho districts nffected." |