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Show Wage, Hour Laws Scored As Vital Blow at Mining Edward H. Snyder Hdlds Move Would Curb Output, Pay, and Freeze Capital Exclusion of mining from proposed federal wage and hour legislation leg-islation was urged by Edward H. Snyder, president of W, F, Snyder tt Sons company, in the closing address of the annual convention and exposition of the American Mining congress, western division. here Friday afternoon. ' Mr. Snyder's speech and adoption of resolutions snded the four-day meet, which attracted more than 2000 mining leaders from this and seven foreign countries to Bait Lake City. Efforts to establish a 40-hour week in the mining induatry drew the particular fire of Mr. Snyder. Citing that the proposed Black-Connery Black-Connery bill would fix maximum a hours snd employment and minimum min-imum wages without "curtailing opportunity op-portunity for employment, earning power of workers, or production," Mr. Snyder asserted that: "An honest administration of ths act based on all tha facia would leave the proposed labor standards board no alternative except to Is- iConMnutd en Pact ElgSO (Column Out) Notables Assemble at Convention Dinner , 11 v fi A I.1IIIG LEADER HITS WAGE BILL . (PwiwiN mm fees 1 eue ordenj affecting the wiu u4 koura of IIm mining industry" Cut Raise Price Tha eame hula principle making uch aa act unworkable la the mining min-ing Induatry would work lha eame way ef applied to ether raw material Industrie that cannot control the setting price of their product. Mr. nyder eaJd. The mining Industry, ha contln-wad, contln-wad, la paying tha highaat wagaa and tha biggest prices for equipment equip-ment and supplies In Its hlatory. The producer of basie raw mate-rlala, mate-rlala, euea aa mlnarala and matala. cannot raiaa tha aalling prlca of hia product! to maat Increased coat a. but atuet aall In a broad compete tiva market In which prlraa ara determined de-termined by world conditions," ha explained. 'Tor raaaonabla efficiency and aafety rompktta mucking, drIIUng and blaating cycle muat ba per-f per-f or mad aach mlna ehlft, and many overatora ara aaparlanclng considerable consid-erable difficulty performing tha rye la la tha llmltad tlma now al-lowad al-lowad by tha atata aight-haur 'collar to collar lawa," Mr, Snyder eon-leaded. eon-leaded. folate Out Danger eUiorUnlng tha work day would decrease aafety, add greatly to tha oat at production and tbaraby da- areaeo employment." Eatabuahinant of a five-day waak an weetira aMnea, Mr, Snyder eon- PLAVr.D LEADING ROLES AT ANNUAL BANQUET OP MINING CONGRESS Senator Kry Pitlman of Nevada, left; Senator William H. King, W. Mont Ferry and Governor Henry II. Blood tended, Inatead of creating naw wealth and naw )obe, would: Decrease 'earmnga of amployaa 1100 to 1400 yaarly and tharrby ere-ata ere-ata atrift. Decrease mineral production at a time whan full-tuna rapacitiaa of v j mines and treatment planta ara needed to aupply tha nation. Incraaaa production eoata and itharaby decrease real amploymant I by making extraction of marginal 'material uneconomical. I Decreaae employment In prospect ing by Increaalng roata and discourage discour-age invaatment of caiptal for developing de-veloping new depoalla on which continuation con-tinuation of tha Induatry depemia. Aggravate tha houeing ehortagr exurting la nearly every camp in the wen ' Increase tha accident rata by forcing tha Induatry to uia an ex-reaaive ex-reaaive number of inexperienced men. m Italy la including ateel production produc-tion in Ita aelf-aufficienry program. |