The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1898-01-28
GAME TO AN END.
The Coal Operators and Miners Adjust
Their Differences-NearIy 100000 Soft
Coal Miners Get an Advance of 1Oc Per
Ton.

The Coal Operators and miners Adjust
Their Differences-NearIy 100000 soft
Coal Miners Get an Advance of 1Oc Per
Ton.
Joint convention of bituminous coal
operators and miners came to an end
at 10 o'clock Wednesday night. The
miners were iubilant over the results
of their ten days session, for it means
to nearly 200, 600 soft coal miners an
advance of ten cents per ton and a
uniform day of eight hours at uniform
day wages. And the operators con-
graduated one another with a victory
over themselves.
The following are the resolutions
adopted with but two dissenting votes:
Resolved That an advance of ten cents per
ton for mining screened coal take effect in the
Western Pennsylvania district, Hooking VAL
ley (O.) district and Indiana bituminouS dis
trict the first day of April, 1898. and that
relative run of mine price be determined in all
the districts named, by a uniform fat or Akron
shaped bar screen of u feet superficial area,
one and one-fOUrth inch space between
the bars: that the price of run, of
mine coal in Grape creek district and in the In
diana bituminOuS district be 40 cents per ton
for the same district, based upon 66 cents in
Pittsburgh thin vein district and that in Hook
ing Valley and Indiana; and that on and after
April l, 1898. the eight hour day shall be in eff
feet in all districts here represented; that uni
form wages for day labor shall be paid the
different classes of labor in the field named;
and that internal differences in any of the
states, both as to price and conditions. shall
be referred to the states affected; that we fur
Their agree to the use of the diamond bar screen
of the present pattern in the block district of
Indiana. with the privilege of run of mine as
may be desired by the market conditions.
The convention completed its work
by naming a scale committee, to con-
sist of the national executive board of
mine workers, the district presidents
and secretaries and two operators from
each state to tabulate the scale and
perfect all the arrangements for put
ting it into effect on the date set. 1t
was determined that hereafter the
miners and operators will meet in Jan
uary each year to fix a scale for the II
months beginning April 1. Pittsburgh,
Pa, was selected for the next annual
joint convention, which will meet on
the third Tuesday of January, 1899.
The scale committees final report as
outlined above, was presented at the
afternoon session and with it came the
protests of two Hooking Valley opera
tors, Messrs Morton and Ellsworth
They insisted upon a differential be-
ing established between their scale
and that of the thin vein of Pennsyl-
vania and quoted masses of statistics
to show that if the plan were put into
operation Hooking Valley mines would
be compelled to close down in face of
competition from Pittsburgh and West
Virginia. Operator Robbins, of Penn
sylvania, finally proposed that the
question of differential in favor of the
Hooking valley district be left to arbi
tration. This was at once accepted by
the Hooking Valley operators, but
brought out demand from the opera
tors of Ohio outside the Hooking val
ley that they be included in the arbi
tration and be allowed a differential as
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