The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-08-24
ALABAMA MINERS
GET INCREASE
IN WAGES
Semi-Monthly Payments Are Also
Conceded to the Miners-Com-
promise Is Reached on the
Eight-Hour Day
Question.

| make to the respective parties in said
| controversy the following report ana
| awards:
Questions for Decision.
| The claims of the miners coming with
| in the scope of the arbitration were de-
cided to be:
First, that there should be an increase
| Of 5 cents per ton on the minimum and
| maximum OF the then existing sliding
scale, with proportionatc Increase to
day men and for narrow work.
| Second. an eight-hour day.
| Third, semimonthly payment OF
| wages and earnings.
The claims of the operators decided
to be within the scope of the arbitration
| were:
First. readjustment of rates for mar
| row work.
| Second, an adjustment of the differ
entail between machine work and pick
! work.
| Third, the establishment of a MINIMUM
number of days per month in which
miner SHAH be required to work
| Fourth, reimbursement of day wages
| Fifth, readiustment of the difference
| Of the wage scale between Pratt and
| other mines.
Upon the questions stated testimony
| was heard until Wednesday, the 18th
| of August in all during nine days. At
| the conclusion of the testimony con-
| ferences Were held and deliberations had
| on the 18th, Goth. 2lst and 22d of the same
| month. and after full and fair considera-
| ton the board of arbitration finds, ad-
| Judges and awards as follows:
l. Minimum and Maximum Rate of
Sliding Scale.
The rates per ton for mining coal on
the Pratt basis will he as follows:
When pig iron is selling at SIS per ton.
| Il 12 cents.
When pig iron is selling at 50 per ton.
SOC
When pig iron is selling at $3.50 per
! ton. 81 1-2c
When pig iron is selling at 5000 per
! ton. 55c.
When pig iron Is selling at s11.5O per
The same proportionate increase shall
be given on day wages for work in and
about the mines but no increase is given
| by this award for narrow work.
2. A n1iMonthly Payment of
Wages.
From and after October / the earnings
Of miners and wages OF day men shall be
paid semi-monthly ana such commissary
| checks or credits as the operators may
| issue to their employees shall not be
transferable. but shall he redeerable in
| goods at the respective commissaries upon
which they are drawn only presented by
| the employees to whom they have been
| issued or by some member of their FAINT
| lies.
3. Rates for Marrow Work.
The total Of the maximum price-on the
| Pratt basis-to be paid for work in head
| ings. exclusive of air courses. shall be s.. 4
| per yard in lieu Of s2.84 per yard. the pres
! ent rate; rates for work in air courses to
! remain on the present basis.
4. Differential Between Machine and
Pick Mining.
The arbitrators have carefully consider
| cd the question OF a differential between
pick and machine mining, but find it i'm
! possible to arrive at a satisfactory con-
| clusion in regard to the same. Their III"
| ability to do SO is owing to the fact that
no sufficient data have been furnished
upon which an intelligent judgment can
| be formed.
Machine mining is 50 new in this dis
| trict that no adequate experience has yet
| been had to furnish basis for a just set
/ uement fol- a dfferential We therefore,
| suggest that committee made up from
| leading men on both sides of the contro-
yersy be appointed TO make experiments
and by this means fix differential.
5. Minimum Number of Days.
Miners absent from work more than
! half a day on pay day or absent the day
| after pay day or for two consecutive days
at any time during the month when the
| mine is in operation, except In case of
| sickness or after notifying and obtain
| inc the consent of the mine foreman,
shall for the first offense in any one
| month be fined so cents or suspended two
! DAYS and for the second offense in the
| same month be fined 81 or suspended four
| davs When men do not work twenty
! DAVIS in any one month when the NINE IS
| in operation twenty days or more. unless
! absent by reason of sickness or with the
| consent of the mine foreman, shall be
| fined the sum Of 81 or suspended The first
six days in the following month, or be
| assigned to another working place
Any day man absent from work one day
without notifying and obtaining the con-
sent Of the mine foreman, except in case
of sickness, shall be fined for the first
offense In any one month 80 cents, or be
suspended for two days. and for the sec
ond offeEse in the same month snail De
| fined 81 or suspended for four days
| The fines hereby imposed shall be col
| lected through the company's officers and
be paid to the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF DIS
| trict 90 (Alabana) of the United Mine
| Workers of America on or before the 10th
| day of each month.
| IF shall be optional with the operator
ia imDOSS hnoS or suspend mine NoIhei .
! or = ssign new places in cases provided for
| above.
G. Differential Between Pratt and
Other Mines.
The differentil in the rate for mining
coal at the Jefferson mine and the kim
berry mine. of the Central Coal Company
shall be reduced IL cents per ton: the
yardage at the above mines to remain as
! at present.
| II IS understood that the Jefferson mine
! the same seam of coal
7. Employment of Boys Under IA
Years of Age.
| submission having been made by rep
resentatives of both sides to this contro-
varsv Of the question of the age at
which boys may be employed, it is here
by awarded that on and after Septem-
| Der I. 1865 no boys under the age of four
teen years shall be employed or permitted
in the mines by any of the mine OPP
orators who are parties to this arbitra-
| ton.
8, When Differentials for Thin Coal
Are Paid, They Shall Not Apply
to Yard Prices.
GEORGE GRAY.
Chairman.
Fl. PEARSON,
w. r. FARLEY.
CHARLES M'CREERY,
! 7. l.. LEWIS.