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Show COAL MINERS GET RAISE. Agreement Reached Between Operators Opera-tors and Employes, Washington. Coal operators and miners' of the central competitive field, meeting here to discuss a readjustment of wage scales, readied a full agreement agree-ment Tuesday as to the amount of increase in-crease to be given. Pick an.d machine miners, who demanded de-manded 15 cents a ton increase In pay, will get 10 cents, and unskilled labor, which sought a wage raise of $1.90 a day, will get $1.50. Yardage and dead work will be paid for on a basis of straight 20 per cent increase. |