Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1900-03-16

to-wlt: For drilling, blasting and load
ing coal in wide rooms. ~ cents per
ton, each pair of leaders to have two
adjoining rooms, one electric drill,
and power to be furnished for each
ten leaders. For drilling, blasting
and loading coal in level headings,
43 cents per ton. For drilling, blast
ing and loading coal from headings
driven with the pitch of veins, So
cents per ton. For drilling, blasting
and loading coal in rooms while be-
ing turned, So cents per ton. All
level headings will be mined and
sheared. Headings driven with the
pitch OF vein will be mined only. All
wide rooms will be sheared only. The
leaders and blasters to furnish their
own powder. Men working in wide
rooms to stand the props which may
be necessary to keep their working
places safe. After rooms shall have
reached the length of 275 feet empty
pit cars will be delivered at the work
ing face and the loads removed there
from by the company. All machine
work in No. 4 vein, both mining and
shearing, will be paid for at the rate
OF 90 cents, full run Or cut Of the ma
chine. All machine work in No. 2
vein, both mining and shearing, will
be paid for at tic rate of SO cents for
every full cut or run Of the machine.
All prices herein for mining by the
ton are computed on a basis OF a
short ton of 1000 pounds OF screened
lump coal. All Of the labor employed
by the company will remain I'M
changed.
Signed: ]. NJ. Fox, Manager.
Making reply to the above notice,
committee from the union submitted
the following to Manager J. M. Fox:
We, a committee appointed by. the
Rod Lodge Miners Union No. % Of
the Western Federation of Miners,
and employees of the Rocky Fork
Coal Company Of Red Lodge, Mon
tana, beg leave to make answer to the
sweeping reduction Of wages by said
company, which is to take effect on
the 18th day Of March, 1900, and beg
leave to submit for your consideration
the following scale OF wages to take
effect on and after tho 18th day of
March, 1900 Whereas, the mining
and shearlng of coal by the present
system Of machinery being of no
material assistance, but rather a great
detrimen, to the mining of coal in
the Rock Fork coal mines, we demand
that the price per ton be as formerly,
to- wit. Is cents per ton. Or, if the
present system is continued, 1926 per
day for machine runners and helpers,
drillers and helpers, blasters and
leaders. For the places working on
the level, empty pit cars shall be
delivered to the working faces and all
loads removed thercfrom by the com
pany. Timber shall be delivered at
the mouth of each room and track
shall be laid to tho working face us
formerly. All ere sscuts in rooms
under six feet, notnlng; from six feet
to fifteen feet, S1.5O per yard; over
fifteen feet, ~ per yard for the whole
crossclt. For turning rooms across
the pitch, Sis; turning rooms with the
pitch, w so; No. 2 mine and No. 6, il
machinery is used, S}.25 per day, the
same as No. 4 niue, or, ii under the
old system, for all men connected
withmining and shearing machinery,
80 cents per ton. Tracklayers shall
receive S$' per day; tracklayers' help
ors, SS22.75 ~ per day; timbermen, S;} per
day; rope splicers, $3 per day; drivers,
$3.50 per day; team drivers. S3 per
day; cage men, 1886 per day; com
mon labor in mines, S2.7s per day;
all outside labor not less than $3.50
per day