Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-05-01 | Page 10 | Miners to Receive Wage Concessions

MBS TO RECEIVE WAGE CONCESSIONS Subcommittee of Operators and Labor Leaders Reach Tentative Agreement. NEW YORK, April SO. Wage concessions conces-sions which would increase the anthracite anthra-cite mine workers' payroll by approximately approxi-mately S3. 000,000 in the next four years are offered in the tentative agreement reached early today by a joint subcommittee subcom-mittee of operators and miners, it was learned tonight. The agreement. It was predicted by both sides, in all probability will be accepted by the trl-district board representing the miners at their meeting here tomorrow. Representatives of the miners declared here tonight that the new agreement, which will cover a four-year period, "means the biggest triumph in point of concessions ever obtained by the miners." min-ers." The operators, for the first time, have granted the miners the right to organize or-ganize for bettering conditions in the coal fields, the leaders asserted. The Increase in wages virtually amounts to 15 5-2 per cent for day workers, according to miners, who pointed out that the granting of the demand for an eight-hour eight-hour day Instead of a nine-hour day, added I2V5 per cent to the 3 per cent for day workers and the 7 per cent Increase for contract miners embodied In th proposed pro-posed new contract.