Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1904-08-04

| cents as the minimum base OF |
the sliding scale. AS the price |
of iron governs the price of coal
the maximum price of coal ON
three feet and over is 40 cents,
from three feet down to two and
a half 52t cents; averaging the
two prices we Nve 49,. We
worked three months last con-
tract year above the minimum
base and nine months at the
minimum base, the day labor be-
ing governed by the same siding
scale. The companies at Clouse
Hill, Coalmont, Flat Branch and |
others pay on flat scale. One |
company pays for coal over three |
feet II cents, from three feet to
two and a half 81 cents, from
two and a half feet to twenty in
ches, go cents which averages 81
cents. Another company's prize
es are for coal over three feet
374 cents, from three feet to two
and half 45 cents, from two
and half feet to twenty inches
81 cents, averaging on standard
scale As cents. The mines are
all in the same Sewanee vein of
coal. The maximum price of
the I. @. |. Co. was Ash cents,
Sewanee Coal, Coke, e. Land Co.
and Flat Branch Co. 81 cents.
These two Companies pay IT
cents more per ton than the I.
G. |. Company on maximum
price, and more than 12t cents
over the minimum price of the
I. G. |. Company. The 7. Q. |.
Co. does not work coal below 24
feet. Another coal company in
business here pays a flat scale on
coal of three feet or over 37t
cents, from three feet to two and
a half As cents, from two and
half feet to 20 inches 52t cents
which averages As cents. This
Company pays 6 cents less than
the Clouse Hill Company but st
cents more than the 7. g. |. Go.
minimum bases. The II. G. |.
Company's maximum price above
this Company is 81 cents. From
what | can learn about day labor
it differs at all the different
mines while it should be the
same for the same kind of work
in all these places as all are in
the Sewanee seam. And why
should not the price of mining
be the same at all these mines?
The men who go around fighting
the union men are ON level
with miners who are afraid tc
contend fer their rights and
who think it q smart thing to
flatter the bank foreman in Or
der to forward their own inter
ests, never realizing that they
will be favored only SO long as
} they can be used as a tool against
the union.
There was a mass meeting call
ed for last Saturday night with
the intention to instruct our del
egates to work to the end that at
the expiration of the present
, contracts in this section, all con-
tracts be made to expire at the
same time and to establish u uni
form price for digging coal in
S the Sewanee vein.
There are men in the Sartair
3 mines who disobey the orders OF
mining, such as shooting before
time. We have pointed out
, these cases to the company fol
punishment till they do right
J work and we agree with the
: Company in carrying out the or
ders. Again we have rule not
l to load over ten cars per man,
. If the cars are distributed SC
, that men get square and equal
4 turn we load all we can. All we
r ask is that each man be given
his regular time and as long as
he can hold his turn he ought to
: be paid as much as any man III
2 the Sewanee field. 1t is equally
as important that all coal mar
, keted from this section enter the
market on an equal footing,
which is impossible as long as
prices paid as much as and men
in the Sewanee field. 1t is equal.
ly as important that all coal mar,
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