Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-09
Wages of 100000 Minere Are
Affected by the Agreement
just Reached
IOWA MINERS ARE INTERESTED
Some $4,000 Coal Diggers in Iowa Will
Profit by the Increase Granted ut In
dianapolis Conference.-The That
Will Prevail in the Various States
Other Iowa News.

indianapolis Ind, Feb 9.--The ma
| tional executive committee of the min,
workers VIII meet here today. The
| beard will conclude it's work TODAY an.
President Mitchell Will leave for Phila
delphia. The officers CT the mine work.
ers will all be very busy attending the
different district conferences which will
be held in the various states between
now and April 1.
The times for holding the joint con-
ferences in the several states have not
all been fixed. The indiana bituminous
convention will be hAld at Terre Haute
beginning March 2, and the joint con
will be held at Springfield on Feb. Is
Kentucky miners ard operators will
meet in March. Other conventions
which have been arranged for are the
Michigan convention. at Saginaw, on
March Is, and the Joint conference i'm
mediately afterwards at Bay City, and
nine joint conferences in Ohio during
the month oil March.
Vice President Lewis said Sunday
night that during the next year he
would be in Indianapolis at the head
quarters of the United Mine Workers
the greater part of the time. He will
be nearer the center of the fields here
and can better direct the movements of
his organizers in all parts of the coun-
try.
The wage scale affects, directly and
indirectly, the wages of 100000 miners.
Those directly affected are the miners
il, the states of the central competitive
district composed of Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois and the Pitisburg district OF
Pennsylvania. OF these $4,000 are in the
Pittsburg district; $4,000 are in Ohio:'
5000 are in the indiana bituminous
fields, and 5000 are IN the Indiana block
coal fields. and 10000 are in Illinois.
Those whose wagss are indirectly af-
fected are the 10000 miners OF central
Pennsylvania: 3,000'nr Michigan: $4,000
of Iowa: 1000 of Kentucky: $4,000 of
Alabama: $4,000 of Tennessee and about
10000 of Kansas Missouri Arkansas
and the Indian Territory. All of the
latter base their wage demands on the
scale adopted in the central district.
Vice President Lewis has figured out
the scale of wages which will now pre-
vail in the several states and districts.
The old and new sca'es are as follows:
Indiana. pick mining. screen basis.
was so cents, will be so cents per ton.
Pick mining, run Of mine, 40 cents.
Cow 55 cents.
Machine mining, punching machine,
screen basis. g.. now az.
Machine mining, punching machine,
run of mine, 80, now A5.
Machine mining. chain machine,
screen basis. 5Sh. now 6sh.
Machine mining, chain machine. run
IF mine. 361s now :c1a.
Ohio Hooking valley. pick mining,
screening basis. was so cents. now 90.
Pick mining, run of mine, so cents.
now 80.
Machine mining 80. now CT.
Ohio. Massillon district, pick mining
Ohio. Massillon district. pick mining.
coal. was So now 80.
Pick mining, run of mine coal, 60.
low: 67ls.
Pennsylvania Pittsburg district, pick
Gining, one and one-furth Inch |
screened coal. so. now 90.
Pick mining. mine ran, now 81.
Illinois. Danville district, pick min
ne, run of mine. was 40, now SO.
Machine mining, run of mine basis. !
vas 80. now As.