Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-03-21
II Granted Would Mean a Veri-
table Revolution in Min
ing Conditions.
so DECLARE THE OPERATORS
Insist on Uniform Wage Scale for
JAG Separate Glasses
OF Workmen.
In Some Cases Employees Would Re.
ceiye an Increase OF 1877 Per
Cent In Wages.

New York, March 2i.-The demands
of the anthracite mine workers for a
reimbursement of wages and conditions
IN the anthracite fields would, II grant
ed by the operators, mean veritable
revolution In mining conditions, accord
ing to a statement issued by the opera
tors committee Of seven today
The statement declares II TO be mis-
take to assume that an eight hour day
and 10 per cent wage increase repre-
seuts the sum total OF the demands
OF the miners.
THE new and uniform scale says
on the same basis, increasing the wages
Of some men as much as 100 per cent.
The average increases under the uni
form scale would be nearly 80 per cent.
for outside men, The proposed sched-
ule would mean veritable revolution
in mining conditions
The statement says that the miners
insist upon uniform wage scale for
li6 separate and distinct classes Of
workmen about the mines
For years" Il adds, "the operator
and employe have recognized the differ
ent value Of labor in different localities
and even In different sections of the
same oolllery. Yet now the miners COM
mittee demand equal pay for the en-
sineer who runs a little 10-horse power
engine and the man who has giant
onsine in his charge. They allow no
more fore the men working under diff
eultles and dangers than for the same
class of workers at posts of ease and
simplicity
According to the statement, miners
IN the Mahony and Shamokn division
would have their wages increased Ill
per cent under the new rate proposed
by the miners committee. They now
receive IA cents perlhour and de-
mand 37ia. Some screen tenders in tho
Sioux mine In the same division who
now receive 1919 cents per hour would
receive an increase of III per cent un-
der the new rate. The wages OF
blscksmths would be increased 81 per
cent bumpers would receive 10 per
cent Increase, and plate men would
get within one cent Of double tho
The statement adds.
other similar instances are numer-
ois. Under the new demands humid
reds Of employees would receive better
than twice their present pay. There
are watchmen whose wages now range
from 81 to 1872 cents an hour, some
OF whom would have 40 per cent add
ed There are screen and pick bosses
and car oilers who would proht 80 per
cent track men would do even four
per cent better than their leaders who
would get within cent of s.. 20 and
breaker oilers who would receive SCOT,
and sweepers would have sl,T9 for every
dollar they earn now IN a given mum
Der OF hours.
The sweeping demands Of the mine
workers would double the wages OF
many Inside men. While the general
average Of Increases for inside day la
borer would approximate 22.S per cent,
and most of .he men thus employed
would receive under the schedule at Is
tue,adVances OF one-flfth to one-quarter
III their pay, there would be q great
many men and boys working at the
easier tasks involving. less responsible
ny and less danger who would have
ther wages doubled.
:, Inere are seven pumpmen I'm the
nhhelton No | mine of the Lehigh d.
vision IN the Lehigh Valley district
mat would profit l61 per cent"