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Show I MiNE WORKMEN I GIVEN SLIGHT I WAGUNGREASl nequality of Dayand Monthly Scale Is Corrected to Conform Con-form With Pick Men OPERATORS TO CONSIDER NO FURTHER DEMANDS Statement of Attitude Issued by Mine Executives After i Joint Conference . 3UBVELAND, Aug. 16. The bitu-ruinous bitu-ruinous ro.tl operators of the central competitive field in refusing tht- min-era' min-era' demands for a S a day Increase for day and monthly men and 10 cents j a ton for pick nnd machine mining, j today offered lo correct the secmln I inequality tf the present conlrat i oy advancing the wages of tic daj and monthly men the equivalent o thi coal commission's award to th pick miners, giving the day and monthly Bieil an increase estimated at from 35 to 72 cents a day The operators wul consider no other oth-er demands made ly the miners, including in-cluding the 10 cents per ion asked for pick and machine mining The miners received tin operators' reply In a Joint conference of the m il committee and unanimously rejected the proposition. 1NOTMEB CONFJ Kl N l ! A sub-committee of two operators and two miners from each ol tin four ;atcs was then named ;mi went into a Joint conference. John Lewis, president presi-dent of the I'mteii Mine Workers "i America and William Green. .-eel tary-treasurer, attended thi meeting a.s ex-ofi'lcio member? ' i" 1 1 mating was presided oyv by slii hael Gal lash j er, a Cleveland operator, chairman of the Joint meeting. Other members of j the Joint committee were to await ihej I call of the sub-committee J Under th award the pick I whs advanced 27 per cent over 'i I then existing contract The daj and I monthly men were advanced but 20 I per cent This Inequallt) the opera- I tors agree to correct by advancing tho wages of the day and monthly men the equivalent ol the pick minci Ul IM.1 OF OIl H tTORS I Vice President Miller ol the Illinois! operators, sa'd th operator.- offer I would give tfay nd monthly men an I increase estl n.rt il at from .';5 lo " cents a day. t'slng the Hocking Valle) field as a basing point ihf- operators proposition would mean in increase of an average i ',0 cents a day to the day and monthly men, he said. The operators n ply to t hi- miners' demand follows "TIti. imfr:i I uru ff flio ri'ii!r:il ithii-1 Ipetitive field at the request of the president of ttv- United sui. have met with you to consider and correct I . any inequalities which Waj be mutually mutual-ly agreed should be adjusted that' have been embodied in the existing: contract, which contract was b is d upon the award ot the bituminous coul commission. CAJREFUIiLY CONSIDERED The propositions presented to us 4 by you have been carefulrj Considered in accordance with the suggestion of I the president In his al for this rrieet-ing. rrieet-ing. 'The only contention made by the United Mine Workers of America upon up-on their execution of the present contract, con-tract, was that the wages of the daymen day-men and monthly men had no; bei tl advanced in the same proportion as the advance given the tonnagi men. "The basis upon which the commission com-mission made its findings was the contract con-tract effective in 19 13. showing that the day labor by its award would advance ad-vance 111 per cent, while tne tonnage' men would advance but 88 pi r cent. Iw niie correct as in iigures, uim method wu.- a distinct departure fiom the established custom of the miners and operators in determining the relative rel-ative advance or decrease in wages to the various classes of labor: the established es-tablished custom be-ins lo fix the pick mining rate and to measure all other labor by the percentage oi such ad-j va'nce or decrease INEQUALITY is CORRE4 i I D, "Under the award of tin- l.uui,, ,.,i,.s coal conimlssion the pick mining rate i was advanced 27 per cent over the j then existing contraet. The day men i ul monthly men were advanced but, 20 per cent. "This seaming -'discrepancy hr.s, caused much dissatisfaction among! the day labor in some of the districts of the central competitive field resulting re-sulting in the closing dow n Of mine and urtuilment of production m necessary at this time. A majority., however, of the miners of the central; competitive field have continued at! work and are tarrying out the eon-' I "In order to conform to the estab-l hshed eusiom lony practiced of flzlni wages and to prevent anj further curtailment cur-tailment of production at this time the' operators will correct the fjcemlng In-' equality of the present contract by ad-i vaneXng the wages of the day men, and monthly men the equivalent of the adyanoe to the pick mlnerfci "They will conaider no other mutters." mut-ters." n iub-oommlRMK. follows: For the operators John Donaldson and William Henderson, of western Pennsylvania; m L, Qould and r. H.I Penna. of Indiana; IS. c Bearls and1 II C. Perry, of Illinois; G K. Marur-er Marur-er and O. C. Weltzel. of -Ohio. The miners Robert R. Gibbons and William Hargest. of western Pennsyl-I vanla; Bd Stewart and William M1t-j chell. of Indiana; Frank Farrlngton I and laarrj PfShWick, of Illinois; John' Moore and iee Mail of Ohio. ' After being In session an hour the I sub-committee adjourned until 2 p. m j |