Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-20
Miners Practically Win Their
Point in Third District.
WORK OF THECOMMITTEE
Scales for the Third and Fourth Sub
Districts, Which Are Located in the
Northern Part of the State, Practic.
ally Settled Yesterday.

Des Moines, March 1S.-The joint
scale committee of coal miners and op-
orators made good progress yesterday.
The Third and Fourth district scales,
after mutual concessions, were prac-
tically disposed Of
The committee assembled at 2
O'Clock in the afternoon and continued
the discussion of the scale for the
Third district. The question of brush
ing was disposed of on the same basis
as in the Second district The black
smithing scale was left unchanged. A
day wage scale for the Third district
was adopted as follows:
Drivers, tracklayers and all other in
side labor, S2.15; boy coupiers, s1.S5;
oilers, S1.25: trappers, s1.0O; spike
! team drivers. when doing regular
switching. S2.40
/ A provision was made that boy driv-
ers may be used between paintings.
The compensation to miners taken
from their places for driving was made
10 cents over and above the regular
drivers wages. Sinkers are to receive
| $2.40 per day The top labor scale
| was referred to the committee appoint
| ed Saturday.
The fourth district scale was taken
1 up and a long discussion ensued on
the proposition that when any mine
shows an excess of screenings it shall
be put on an absolute mine run basis
! There was no action The provisions
4 Of In CT e la i,Sf he
fourth district was re-enacted. the
mining price (screened) in the Tyson
vein was placed at 81 and the mine run
price 90 cents, the option of a test be
4 ing left to the operator. A slight con
cession was granted by the operators
in lessening the room neck from twelve
feet to nine. At Coalville and Kalc
the screens will be identical with those
of last year. The mining price fol
Coalville and Kalo hard screened lumI
4 will be IS cents, mine run price sc
cents, entry driving in hard coal S1.65
in soft coal SLIP.
n The committee was unable to agree
on price for room turning at the
mines named and referred the ques
ton, together with that of defcien
coal, to the subcommittee. Anothe
t disagreement arose over the inside da,
wage scale in the Boone district. Oil
ers and trappers in the Boone distrc
will receive 81 per day; machinist
and runners, $3.50 per day; sinkers
/ S240: tracklayers. drivers and othe
inside labor at Coalville and kalo
$215.
Evening Session.
In tho ovcnino tho committee re-er
acted the screen clause of last year TO
the Boone district, established tn
: mining price for screenitied lump at S
: and the entry driving price at s. pc
!. yard For the sake of uniformity tn
i room neck in the Boone district wa
}. also reduced from twelve to nine fee
!. The mining price at Fraser was mad
e So cents per ton. Machine loading i
! Boone county is to be paid for at one
half the pit mining price. Under tn
head of dead and deficient worl
clauses We're enacted prescribing tina
. coal in the Boone district less tina
: twenty-four inches in thickness sha
v be considered deficient; that pushin
:, shall not exceed $50 feet and that
;, required to push more than $50 fee
. miners shall receive 10 cents per to
:, extra for the first thirty feet; that tn
= compensation for pushing beyond is
: feet shall be agreed upon locally thu
no miner shall be required to push flu
Their than the second switch from til
entry; that the company shall lay a
track on entry and room roads. til
o same to be of iron; that brushing
the Boone district shall not be MOI
az than nine feet back from the face
f the coal. Double shifting entries wi
% be 25 cents per yard extra. The bs
is ance of the dead and deficient wol
was placed on the basis of last year.
Madrid District.
A new feature was the scale ma,
l. for the Madrid district, for which her
tofore no special action was taken. TT
d mining price will be $l.05 per to
e Rooms shall not exceed forty feet
e width, nor $50 feet in depth.
IS A decided clearing of the atmc
lphere has resulted from the settleme