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Show TKEKif IGHT R1INERS ! ARE GN' STRIKE f ' ' I J i ' They Demand a Pay Day Every Two Weeks Instead of Monthly, According Accord-ing to J ease Knight. A number ot Tinti'c miners employed employ-ed In the Knight mines have quit work, according to reports brought to Provo. Mr. Knight said yesterday that so far as he knows the only trouble trou-ble is the refusal of the companies to accede to the demand of the miners for a two-weeks' pay day. When this matter was considered a short time r.go in connection with a demand for an increase in wages, the Increase in wages was granted, but the two-weeks' pay day wat not, for the reason that to pay every two weeks instead of monthly will make a great deal of additional ad-ditional office work without being productive pro-ductive of any particular benefif to the miners. In fact several of them have told Mr. Knight that it makes no particular par-ticular difference to them whether tfiey are paid every two weeks or once a month, and so far as he can see the only question involved Is that of the ability of the miners to make the operators do what the miners ask them to do, and Mr. Knight does not think any large proportion of the miners will insist on this. He states that his companies don't want to close down the mines, and he does not think they will have to do bo, and that men are being hired to take the place of the miners who lune left. Mr. Knight says that after ie in-(reivse in-(reivse wages was made a big majoritv of the miners agreed to accept the decision, de-cision, adverse to the two weeks pay day. but he supposes other influences have been at, work to change this decision de-cision of acceptance on the part of some of the miners at least. |