Ogden Daily Standard | 1920-04-01 | Page 1 | 400,000 Miners to Get Wage Increase

it oo ; 400,000 MINERS TO I 1 GET WAGE INCREASE p Af , NEW YORK, April 1. The nowi i wage agreement of Uie bituminous MS i mine workers disposed of, John L. wv- Lewis, international president of the Ii United Mine Workers, today turned; w. his attention lo the negotiation of aj (new contract for the anthracite min-'; org. He declared that steps would be j ' , taken to bring about a "satisfactory"! 1 adjustment in the hard coal industry,! -without further delay. I More than -100,000 mine workers will receive the twenty-seven per cent wage increase in the new contract signed yesterday yrtaich goes into effect ef-fect today and continues for two years. T. 1j. Lewis, secretary of the New M J, River Coal association, of West Vir- W ginia sa'd des.pite the new wage m1 agreement there would be little in-I in-I Ma crease in production until operators H ' - were assured an "adequate car sup-; 1 Ply-" I