Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-10-08
CONVENTION
is CALLED
Miners to Meet on Friday
at Scranton.

Order This Morning to
Assemble and Consider
Operators Propositions.
President John Mitchell, of the United
Mine Workers of America, issued an
order this morning calling a convention
of the anthracite mine employees for the
purpose of considering the propositions
made by the employers.
The convention will be held in Music
Hall, Scranton, on Friday, October 12,
commencing at 10 q. M, and will con-
tinue in session until the business for
which it is called has been transacted
This convention, which will be COM
posed of delegates representing every
section of the anthracite region, will
pass judgment upon the offers made by
the operators.
If these offers are considered salts
factory, the convention has power to
declare the strike at an end and set a
date for the resumption Of work.
Should the offers be considered un-
satisfactory, the convention will so
decide and the strike will continue.
The convention will be the most i'm
portant labor gathering that has ever
assembled in the anthracite region.
POSTING INCREASE NOTICES.
Notices offering 10 per cent increase
have been posted at nearly every mine
in the anthracite region, including the
collieries operated by the Drifton cor
porations. In this vicinity all the oper-
ators have offered the increase except
G. B. Markle & Co. Up to 9 O'Clock this
firm had not made any offer to its en-
ployes. The Upper Lehigh Coal Com
pany posted its notices at noon today.
The wording of the notices posted by
the several companies differs but little.
The majority read as follows:
"This company makes the following
announcement to its mine employees: 1t
will adjust its rate of wages so as pay its
mine employees on and after October /,
and until further notice, net increase
of 10 per cent on the wages heretofore
received.
"Note.-In is understood in the fore
going that powder will be sold to miners
for $1.5O per keg, and that the differ
ence between this rate and the old rate
of $2.75 shall be taken into account in
figuring the net advance of 10 per cent
noted above for this class of work.
FIGURING ON THE INCREASE.
The offer to increase miners wages 10
per cent, said Increase to be considered
part of and to be taken into account In
reduction of powder from 81. rs to 81. so
keg, has puzzled many men in and out
of the mining region. In the Scranton
Times on Friday an explanation of the
workings of the increase is made In an
article a column long, In this it is
shown that the price paid on the car or
ton of coal, as well as the price per keg
of powder, will vary each month, both
being based on the quantity OF powder
required to blast a designated number
of cars or tons.
With the car or ton price originally bas-
ed on the sliding scale, as it is In this re-
gion, followed by an ever-changing per-
centage on the powder, and on the coal
again, none but man well versed in
mathematics can solve the problem Of
how much a miner has earned at the
end of the month. Further, should a
miner produce more coal from the num-
Der OF kegs of powder usually designated
as necessary, he will suffer a reduction
MISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENTS.
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