Show I MINE MINEWORKERS WORKERS TO GET GEC WAGE DEMANDS DEMANDS' I Scale to Serve as Basis for Wages in All Bituminous I ous ou Fields CLEVELAND Ohio Sept 19 The 19 The wage scale demands to be presented to the tho soft sott coal coat operators In the central central central cen cen- field or Oi o Ohio Illinois and western western western west west- i ern Pennsylvania which will serve as I the basis of ot relative wage scales In fn I all the bituminous fields of ot the country country coun coun- I try will be submitted to the convention convention conven conven- tion of ot the United Mine Workers o of America early next week Attempts will be made to make the I instructions of ot the convention on the principal demands regarding the amount of the increase presumably a about out 60 per pr cent cenO and the shortening shortening shorten short ing of ot working time to six hours daily dally five days a a. week absolutely mandatOry mandatory mandatory manda manda- tory upon the miners' miners representatives in the Joint scale conference at Buffalo Buffalo nut nut- falo September 25 and ond to direct them either to obtain recognition of these principal demands demand without change or orto orto or orto to call out the bituminous miners of the country in a general strike November November November No No- vember 1 A large number of resolutions criticising criticising crit crit- former scale conferees for tor taking taking tak tak- ing demands formulated in convention as a a. basis of ot negotiation and accepting accepting accepting accept accept- ing agreements embodying something less leu than thaon the original demands and directing them this time to insist upon the adoption of ot the demands of ot the convention to the letter have been submitted The men who are formulating the tho scale cale demands on which tho the question of a general strike of ot coal miners this fall faU will dep depend nd are Frank Karrington Farrington of Springfield Ill and Phillip Murray Murray Murray Mur Mur- ray of Pittsburg presidents of ot the Illinois and western Pennsylvania distrIct district district dis dis- dis- dis organizations |