Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-03-23
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same WAGES as were paid in April, 1902
for 10-hour day. Overtime in excess
of nine hours in any day to- be paid al
4 proportionate rate per hour.
UI-During the life of this award the
present methods of payment for Goa
mined shall be adhered to unless
changed by mutual agreement.
In all of the above awards it is pro-
vided that allowances like those made
shall be paid to the legal representa-
tiTcS of such employees as may have
died since Nov. l, 1902.
! IV-Any difficulty or disagreement
larising under this award either as to its
Interpretation or application, or in any
way growing out of the relations of the
employers and employed which cannot
be settled or adjusted by consultation
between the superintendent of mana
ger of the mine or mines, and the min
er or miners directly Interested, or is of
a scope too large to be so settled or
adjusted, shall be referred to a perna-
nent joint committee to be called a
board of Cancellation to consist of six
persons, appointed as hereinafter pro-
vided. That is to say, if there shall be
division of the whole region into
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shall exist an organization representing
a majority of the mine workers of such
district one of said board of concilia-
ton shall be appointed by each of said
organizations and three other persons
shall be appointed by the operators, the
operators in each of said districts APP
pointing one person.
The board of Cancellation thus con-
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question referred to it as aforesaid,
hearing both arties to the controversy
and such evidence as may be laid be-
fore it by either party; and any award
made by majority of such board of
Cancellation shall be final and binding
on all parties.
If, however, the said board is unable
to decide any question submitted or
point related thereto, that question or
point shall be referred to an umpire, to
be appointed, at the request of said
board, by one of the circuit judges of
the third judicial circuit court of the
| United States, whose decision shall be
final and binding in the premises.
The membership of said board shall
at all times be kept complete, either
the operators or miners organizations
having the right at any time when a
controversy is not pending to change
their representation thereon.
AT all hearings before said board, the
parties may be represented by such
person Or persons as they may re-
spectivc!y select.
| No suspension of work shall take
place by lockout or strike, pending the
adjudication of any matter so taken up
for adjustment.
| V-Whenevcr requested by major
ity of the contract miners of any col
liery. check weighmen or check docking
bosses, or both, shall be employed. The
! wages of said check Weighmen ant
check docking bosses shall be fixed
collected and paid by the miners II
such manner as the said miners Shall
by a ma jority vote elect and when re-
quester by Il majority of said miners
the operators shall pay the wages fiXec
for check weighmen and check docking
bosses out of deductions made proper
tionatcly from the earnings of the sale
miners, on such basis as the majority
of said miners shall determine.
| Whine cars shall be distributed
among miners, who are at work, as uni
formly and as equitably as possible and
there shall be no concerted effort on the
part of the miners or mine workers OF
any colliery or colleries, to limit the
output of the mines or to detract from
the quality of the work performed, un-
less such limitation of output be in con-
formity to an agreement between an
operator or operators and an organic
alton representing majority of said
miners in his or their employ.
| VII--In all cases where miners are
naid by the car. the increase awarded
to the contract miners is based upon
the carss in use, the topping required,
land the rates paid per car which were
in force on April 1. 1902. Any increase
i'm the size of car or in the topping
required. shall be accompanied by a
proDortionatc increase in the rate PAID
per car.
| VIII-Thc following sliding scale OF
wages shall become effective, April l. l9o5
and shall affect all miners and mine work
ers included in the aw3r,S of the c1mmES-
sion.
The wages fixed in the awards Shall bo
the basis Of. and the minimum under the
sliding scale:
For each increase of five cents in the
average price of white ash coal sizes
above pea coal at or near New YORK, be
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reported to the bureau of anthracite Goa
statistics, above $3.50 per ton o b. the
employees shall have an increase OF pei
; cent. in this compensation, which shall
continue until change in the average
of said coal works a reduction or an IN
crease in said additional compensation
: hereunder but the rate of compensation
. shall in no case be less than that liked II
the award. That is when the price OF sale
coal reaches $i.55 per ton, the compensa
[ ton will he increased l per cent. to con
) tinue until the price falls below S4o0 PEI
ton, when the l per cent. increase vii
cease. or until the price reaches $3.50 PEI
ton. when an additional per cent will ID
| added, and so on.
1 | These average prices shall be compute
monthly by an accountant or commission
er named by one of the circuit judges o
the third judicial circuit of the United
v States and paid by the coal operators
, | such compensation as the appointin.
!. Judges may fix. which compensation shal
i be distributed among the operators il
i proportion to the tonnage OF each mine.
In order that the basis may be laid TO
the successful working of the sidin,
t scale provided herein, it is also adjudge'
+ and awarded:
;, That all coal carrying companies file a
y once with the United States commission
or of labor a certified statement of tn
rates Of compensation in each occupation
: known in their companies. as they exist
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