The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-09
coal MINERS CO TO
Their DISTRICT
MEETINGS
Joint Conferences in the Sev
eral States to Be Held in
Short Time-Wages to Be
Paid Under the New Scale
Adopted.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Feb. 8.-The
national executive committee of the
Mine Workers will meet here tomor-
row. All of the district officers will
be present except James Wood, of
Kentucky; William Morgan, of nli-
nois; Harry Bouswell, of Kansas, and
Miles Dougherty and J. P. Gallagher,
of the anthracite district.
The board will conclude it's work to-
morrow and President Mitchell will
leave for Philadelphia; Vice PresideR
Lewis will leave for Eastern Ohio to-
morrow and from there he will prob
ably go to the mining district of West
Virginia. The officers of the Mine
Workers will all be very busy attend
ing 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
ali been fixed. The Indiana bitumi-
nous convention will be held at Terre
Haute beginning March and the joint
conference on March 10; that of Illi-
nois viii be held at Springfield, Feb
IS; Kentucky miners and operators
VIII meet in March. Other conven-
are: Michigan convention at Sagi-
nav, March IS, and the joint confer
ence in Ohio during the month Of
March.
Vice President Lewis said tonight
that during the next few days he
would be in Indianapolis at the min
ers' headquarters the greater part Of
the time. He will be nearer the CEN
nf
direct the movements of his organiz-
ers in all parts of the country 1t is
the intention of the officers to devote
much time this year to the morgan
lied districts of the country.
An Army of Men Affected.
The wage scale signed directly and
indirectly affects the wages of 800, 900
miners. Those directly affected are
the miners in the states of the central
competitive district, composed of Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois and the Pittsburg dis
tricts 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 wages are Indirectly
affected are the 10000 miners Of Cen
tral Pennsylvania, 5000 of Michigan,
$4,000 of Iowa, 1900 of Kentucky, 15,-
600 of Alabama. $4,000 of Tennessee
and about 10000 Of Kansas, Missouri,
Arkansas and Indian territory All of
the latter base their wage demands on
the scale adopted in the central dis
trict
Vice President Lewis has figured
out the scale of wages which will now
prevail in the several states and dis
tTicts The old and new scales are as
follows: Indiana, pick mining. screen
basis, was so cents, will be 80 cents
per ton; pick mining, run of mine
basis, so cents, will be 55 cents per
ton; machine mining, punching ma
chine, screen basis, was 81 cents, will
be 72 cents per ton; machine mining,
punching machine, run Of mine basis,
was 80 cents, will be As cents per ton:
machine mining, chain machine, run
Of mine basis, was 5S1b cents, will be
681a cents per ton; mining machines.
chain machines, run of mine basis, was
S61a cents, will be 421b cents per ton.
Ohio, Hooking Valley, pick mining,
screen basis, was 80 cents will be 80
cents per ton; pick mining, run of
mine basis, was 80 cents, will be 80
cents per ton; machine mining. was
So cents Will be 81 cents per ton. Ohio
Massillon district, pick mining, screen
ed COAL was so cents and is now so
cents per ton; pick mining, run OF
n1lne c1Ile coal, was so cents and is now
671a cents per ton.
Pennsylvania, Pittsburg district
pick mining, IL inches screened coal
was so cents per ton and is now go
cents per ton; pick mining, mine run
is now 81 cents per ton.
Illinois, Danville district, pick min
ing, run Of mine basis was 49 cents
and is now 55 cents per ton; machine
mining, run of mine basis, was SO cents
and is now IS cents per ton.