Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-01-01 | Page 25 | Miners' Wages to be Increased

To In Of BE IN INCREASED DENVER nENVER Colo Cob Dec Dee II 1 AP- AP FOllowing the lead of the Colorado Fuel and andIron Iron company co controllers of wage scales In the southern Colorado coal fields operators operator oi ci J ten northern Colorado coal mines mine today notified the state Industrial commission of ot their intention to Increase in increase In In- crease wages of their miners Al All of those signing today's notice are Independent nt operators whose miner have been working with greatly reduced reduced re- re forces since October 18 whet when the Industrial Workers of ot the World Worl called caned a strike in this state I The new scale will be Per eI day representing g an increase o of 6 lie SC cents This scale was put into effect ef el sf feet by the Rocky Mountain Fue Fuel company at its Columbine mine Ir ii the northern Colorado field just t s week before the battle there on November No No- vember 21 when six strikers wen were killed The new announced d scale is 2 21 cents a So day higher than that tha announced an n. n by the Colorado Fuel anc ani Iron company This differential however always has hag applied between between be be- tween the two fields because of ot con con- which t as mans working days in the northern fields each year as are worked in In- Inthe th the southern mines