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Show PRESIDENT AFFIlSi GOALWAGE RAISE AWARD OF EIGHTY-FIVE MILLION D0LLAR8 ANNUAL INCREASE OFFICIALLY APPROVED. Award While Providing Improved Con. dltlons for Workers, Offers No Justification for Advance In Retail Prices, Is Claimed. Washington. president Wilson on August ISO approved the mnjorlty report re-port of the anthruclto coal commission Increasing the wages ot contract miners min-ers 110 per cent ovor present rates. Miners employed as company men are given an Increaso of 17 per cent and the same amount Is given "consideration "con-sideration miners" nnd and miners' laborers la-borers and monthly men. The findings, the report said, would fix a minimum rate of 52 cents per hour for tho lower paid men In tho anthrnclto Industry. Tho president struck out ot tho report re-port u provision fixing tho terms of retroactlvo payments under tho nwnrd, which, ho said, was outsldo tho commission's com-mission's Jurisdiction. Thomas Kennedy, Ken-nedy, chairman of tho miners' scale committee, had protested this fcaturo of tho award, ho said. Anthrnclto initio workers will receive re-ceive about $18,000,000 hi back pay under tho retroactlvo feature, nnd tho total Increase awarded to tho 175,000 miners will average, tho commission said, at least 585,000,000 annually. q'he mnjorlty report declared thnt tho award offers no Justification for any ndvunco in tho retail prlco ot coal, hut, on tho other bund, Is consistent con-sistent with a decline In prices. Tho minority report wns signed hy Commissioner Com-missioner Ferry. The decision refused tho United Mine Workers' demnnd for n closed shop nnd tho Installation ot a "checkoff "check-off system." , Interest of tho general public in the award centered largely In tho effect on tho price of hard coal. Tho commission com-mission Said that while tanking substantial sub-stantial Improvement In tho situation of the miners, it had declined to commit com-mit Itsulf to n decision that might Justly Just-ly be considered nn encouragement to tho so-called "vicious upward spiral" of prices. Tho rusult, tho commission Raid, was that tho awards, whllo providing Improved Im-proved conditions for tho workers, could offer no Justification for any advances ad-vances In the rctnll prices of coal, |