Show MINERS TO ASK I ILOW LOW WAGE LAW ion Delegates Seek Unemployment Insurance Tax on Gas and Oil Resolutions asking among other things unemployment insurance as provided in the Wagner Lewis bill and a minimum wage law were adopted adopt adopt- ed by delegates to the twenty second district convention United Mine MineWorkers W Workers of America Monday at the Labor temple Other requests were for national old age pe pensions a tax on natural gas and oil oil add additional safet safety measures in mines including elimination of blasting blast blast- ing while men are arc underground and passage of the Wagner Wagner-Connery bill to outlaw company unions The resolution asking a natural l gas and oil ed in an amount to be determined by a special study poInted out these products have become be be- come strong competitors to coal Copies of the resolutions will be forwarded to PresIdent Roosevelt and congress The convention attended by representatives of coal miners in inU U Utah h and ws nd with a Session n Monday afternoon at whIch delegates s to wage conferences and ascale n a sc scale le ommittee were t to be named These groups Tuc Tuesday d y morning will begin sessions expected to last two weeks on 1934 contracts With operators oper- oper Proposed agreements then will willbe willbe be presented the thc latter Among proposals to be discussed are a six hour da day and day week The Thc convention voted several constitutional con con- ch in including luding one mc to scat on instead of March j to allow them to begin ear car Her negotiations with operators M. M L. L Hamson chairman of the Utah State Federation union labor committee addressed the morning meeting and urged buying or of goods bearing union labels Utah delegates and M. M r. r Thompson president of the Utah State Federa tIon of Labor Tuesday will present to Governor Henry H. H Blood a petition asking the 1935 legislature to amend the workers workers' comp compensation law aw to base payments on existing wage scales and not on yearly early e earnings of workers |