Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-11-20 | Page 1 | President Calls New Industrial Conference to Meet Dec. 1

RESIDENT f ID I'D f CADS All NEW IND INDUSTRIAL J CONFERENCE f f f fT T TO MEET MJ D DEC f I- I J. J l. l l 1 FUEL UhL UEL T T T OPERATORS J PER n T n AT A nn OPS v n r OF OFFER FElt MINERS WAGE AG R RAISE UI CHIEF I 1 SAYS A RAI HA ISE l TOn MAll MAllI I Advance of Twenty Per PerCent Cent Off 0 r d b by y the Empl Employers ers Declared to Be y Iri d q bate bater al f 9 r t- t M i. i r HIl HIi T Iv Ng o 20 n n nr I h i ui f i rc rc's cas s irr iv wages ivies of 15 lv r I cents cents' per ton and amI 20 per pel cent centI th day scale al to I over ver the day ay s 's become effective ve immediately the he heI bituminous coal miners return to tow I w work rk was offered by by- bythe the operators at the meeting today of the wage scale committees in the central com corn I bituminous field In announcing the offer Thomas ThomasT I T. T Brewster chairman of at the operators operators' operators operators' opera opera- I tors' tors wage scale committee said the operators had proposed the existing conditions be continued and that the contract be operative until 1 March h 31 81 1922 SC SCOFFS FF AT OFFER John L. L Lewis acting president of ot United the MIne Aline W Workers of America declared the increase was totally Inadequate inadequate in- in adequate The o operators he said had had proposes propose proposed increases In the price of ot miners' miners supplies which would absorb practically all the wage advances Nothing w was s said about reduced ho hours rs although the miners miners' had demanded de de- a hour thirty thirty week An in increase increase in- in crease crease- of ot 15 IS cents a a. ton it was wag exl explaIned explained ex- ex l would be an advance of ot 20 per cent over present wages for tor machine machine machine ma ma- chine mining as compared with the the 60 per cent Increase demanded by th the workers