Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-04-11 | Page 2 | Higher Mining Wage Favored

HIGHER MINING WAGE FAVORED Americas America's Only Woman Coal Operator Backs Seven Seven- Hour Day Pay Boost WASHINGTON April 11 P JP- JP i Americas America's only woman coal operator Miss Hiss Josephine Roche of the Rocky Mountain Fuel company of Colorado ope ed Wednesdays Wednesday's session of at the N M R A coal wage hearing with an unqualified unqualified un qualified indorsement of the seven seven- hour hour- day and higher wages for soft coal miners Speaking for for- forthe the Northern Colorado Colorado Colo Coin rado Coal Producers' Producers association at atan atan atan an NR N R A hearing Miss ss Roche termed the administrations administration's order establishing establish establish- ing toe the shor shorter r day and increased wage scales in the industry as a sound and constructive step She called on the administration to remove all wage differentials between be be- tween the mines of northern and southern Colorado asserting there Is no sound basis to Justify in the long longrun longrun longrun run any differential between those groups