Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-09
BUSY TINE FOR MINERS
Propose to Organize All Parts Of Country
during Coming Year
WAGE CONFERENCES ALSO TAKE TIME
Many states and Districts Yet RemnIn
I'm which Rates Of Pay Have
90 he settled with
Operators.

INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. S.-The national
executive committee OF the mine workers
will meet here tomorrow. All the district
presidents will be present except James
Wood OF Kentucky, william Morgan Of
Ohio, Harry Bousaeld Of Kansas and Miles
Dougherty and ]. p. Gallagher of the
anthracite district.
The board will conclude its work tomor-
row and Mr.. Mitchell will leave for Phila-
delphia. Vice President Lewis will also
leave for eastern Ohio and from there
will probably go to the mining district Of
West Virginia The officers OF the mine
workers will all be busy attending the
different district conferences in the vari-
Gus states between now and April.
Many Conference Arranged.
Dates for the joint conferences in the
several states have not all been fixed. The
Indiana bituminous convention will be held
at Terre Haute beginning March 2 and the
Joint conference on March 10; that of
Illinois at Springfield on February Is, while
the Kentucky miners and operators will
meet in March. other conventions which
have been arranged for are Michigan at
Saginaw on March is and the joint con-
ference Immediately afterwards at Bay
City, and nine joint conferences in Ohio
during March.
Vice President Lewis said tonight that
during the next year he would be in Indian
apolis at the headquarters OF the United
Mine Workers-the greater part Of the time,
He would thus be near the center Of the
fields and could better direct the move
ments of his organizers in all parts of the
country.
1t was the intention of the officers to
devote much time during the year to I'M
organized districts.
The wage scale signed directly and in
directly affected the wages Of $780, 900
miners. Those directly affected are the
miners in the states Of the central COM
petitive district, composed Of Ohio, Indi-
ana, Illinois and the Pittsburg district OF
Pennsylvania. OF those rs, 900 were in the
Pittsburg district, $4,000 in Ohio, rs, 900 in
the Ohio Uituminous fields and 5000 in
the Indiana block coal fields and 4e, 900 in
Illinois.
Those whose wages were indirectly az
fected were the 80, 900 miners Of central
Pennsylvania, 5000 of Michigan, IA, 900 of
Iowa, 1900 Of Kentucky, Is. 200 OF Alabama,
$4,000 of Missouri and Indian territory.
What Recent Increase Means.
Vice President Lewis has figured out the
scale Of wages which will now prevail in
the several states and districts. The old
and new scales are follows:
Indiana-Pick mining, screen basis, was
so cents, will be 80 cents per ton; pick
mining, run of mine basis, was 49 cents,
will be 55 cents per ton; machine mining
punching machine, screen basis, was 50
cents, will be ~ cents per ton; machine
mining, punching machine. run of miae
basis, was 80 cents and will now be Al
cents per ton; machine mining, chain ma
chine, run Of mine basis. was 1914 cents
and will now be 42h cents per ton.
ohio-Hocking valley, pick mining, screen
basis, was so cents and will be 30 cents pei
ton; pick mining, run Of mine basis, was
so cents and will now be 80 cents per ton
machine mining, was SO cents and will now
be 81 cents per ton; Massilon district, pict
mining, screened coal, was so cents pei
ton and will now he 90 cents per ton; picl
mining, run of mine coal, was 60 cents, now
67h cents per ton.
observation-disclosures district, pick
1A-inch screened coal, was 80 cents pei
ton and is now 80 cents per ton.
Ulinois-Danville district, pick mining
run Of mine basis, was 81 cents and is nov
So cents per ton; machine mining, run o
mine basis, was 80 cents and is now Al
cents per ton.