The Owosso times., 1897-09-24
WHAT PRAIRIE STATE MINERS WANT
Schedule of Prices for Digging Coal Their
Convention Has Adopted.

Schedule of Prices for Digging Coal Their
Convention Has Adopted.
Springfield, Ills. Sept 22. = At the
meeting Of the state coal miners con-
vention here yesterday the following
scale of wages for the entire state was
presented by the committee and adopted
for the ensuing year:
Gross weight-Streator and Clark
City, SS cents per ton; Wilmington field,
including Bushing, SO cents; Spring Hill,
SO cents; LaSalle, Ga cents; Lincoln, 421s
cents; Bloomington third vein, 65 cents;
Bloomington second vein, 55 cents; Pom
tiac, GA cents; Peoria and Canton sub
district, As cents; Springfield, 81 7-1O
cents; Peoria, 30 cents; Danville and
Grape creek, 81 cents; Belleville, 81
cents; Duquoin, S3 cents; Coal Valley
81 cents; Gilchrist and Wanlock, 81
cents; Assumption, 521a cents; Chicago
and Alton railroad south of Springfield
321s cents; Sorrento, 81 cents; Litchfield,
No. 2 six-foot vein, 321s cents; Litch-
field No. three-foot vein, to be pro-
portioned, respective conditions Of Nos.
1 and 2.
Scale Of day work for entire state as
follows: Track layers, 1925 per day;
timber men, $2.25; drivers, 50; cagers,
So; trappers, 95 cents; inside laborers,
81; top hands, not less than $1.55;
bumpers, So; car trimmers, $2 box car
trimmers, 81; box car shovelers, So; Ia
Dor bottom diggers, 50.
Machine mines-Peoria and Canton,
subdistrict; Shooting, loading and tim
bering, 2S1s cents per ton; machine run
ners, 1920 per day; machine helpers,
$2.O5; machine third men, s1.9O
Belleville misunderstanding loading
and timbering, 21 cents per ton; ma
chine runners, cents per ton; ma
chine helpers, cents per ton. All veins
five feet and under in this field, cents
per ton above district prices, these
prices to govern all mines shipping coal
into the St. Louis market.
Taylorville = Machine runners, AZ
cents per square foot shooting, loading
and timbering, 10 cents per ton; helpers,
3A cents.
Athens-Machine runners, / lilo cents
per square foot; helpers, $40 cent per
square foot; shooting, loading and
timbering, 23ls cents.
Girard-Shooting and timbering, 4-10
cents per ton; runners, Az cents per
ton; shovelers, 3 3-19 cents; leaders, 12A
cents
Clarke City-Machine, shooting, load
ing and timbering, 2SA cents per ton;
machine runners, 1920 per day; machine
helpers, $2.05 per day.
Moweaqua - Machine loading and
shooting. 30 cents per ton; the different
workers to adjust their part of the
total.
Danville district-Machinem mine, shoot
Ing, loading and timbering, % 1-5 cents
per ton; all other machines to be ad-
vanced in proportion all yardage work
to be advanced from prices existing to
this suspension in proportion to ad-
vance OF mining wage.
We demand the right to employ a
check weighman; we demand our pay
semi-monthly; all other mines not above
enumerated to adjust prices according
to scale in their own competitive fields.
These are yearly prices and no distinction
Will be made between summer and win
ter.
A motion was adopted that the men
OF any operator In the state who will
pay the scale adopted as above shall
resume work at once. Greene, of Belle
Vile, made fight for a difference be-
tween gross weight and coal cleaned
In mines by rake, pick or fork. The
convention decided that no privileges of
this kind should be allowed. but all coal