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Show IRON MINERS TO WORK EIGHT HOURS PER DAY By International News Service. MARQFICTTF. Mich.. March Underground Un-derground workers In the iron mines of Michigan. Wisconsin and Minnesota will not labor mote llian eight hours a day. beginning with next Monday. An agreement agree-ment "oiis been entered into by the operators oper-ators of the various ranges in those three stn'tes to nut the new schedule inlo Immediate Im-mediate effect. The announcement of this radical, though voluntary, concession conces-sion !v the leading Iron companies was made 'today from the office of the Oliver Iron Mining company in Ishpeming. Fully 10.000 miners will be affected by the change which will mean ,no reduction In wagos. s:iv t'no operators All the mines included In the change are more or less-identified less-identified with the United States Steel corporation. |