The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-01-23
SCALE COMMITTEE
SUBMITS DEMANDS
VIII Be Taken Up for Consid-
GRAFTON Today
MITCHELL CAUSES SCENE
Denounces as False the Charge That
He Sold Out the Miners In
the Colorado
Strike.

Strike.
Indianapolis, January 22-The general
scale committee of the United Mine
Workers Of America at o'clock this af-
ternoon made its report to the conven-
ton The report was received and will
be taken up for consideration tomorrow
morning. The report is as follows:
I'VE. your committee on scale, after
careful consideration submit the follow
ing report:
"First-That districts %, IA, q, "a and %
be admitted to a joint conferences; also
the admission of all outlying districts
whose operators are willing to partici-
pate.
"second-We demand a general advance
of 121s per cent over the present scale.
"Thrd-We demand a run of mine ba-
sis.
"Fourth-We demand that the differen-
tial between pick and machine mining
shall be cents.
"Fifth-We demand a uniform outside
day wage scale.
"slxth-We demand that all yardage
and dead work be advanced to the 121s
per cent.
"Seventh-We demand that no boy I'M
der sixteen years of age shall be en-
ployed In or around the mines.
"Eghth-We demand that our contract
become effective April 1, 1906. and expire
April 1, 1907.
"Ninth-We demand that eight hours
shall constitute a days work
''Tenth-That when the men go into the
mines In the morning they shall be en-
titled to two hours pay, whether or not
the mine works the full two hours,
but after the first two hours the men
shall be paid for every hour thereafter
by the hour, for each hour, or fraction or
part thereof. If for any reason the reg
ular routine work cannot be furnished
the inside labor as a portion of the first
two hours, the operators may furnish
other than regular labor for the expired
time.
Anthracite Region.
At the joint convention of districts l,
and held in Shamokin, Pa, December
14-16. 1905, the following recommendation
from the scale committee was adopted:
I'VE have examined carefully all the
resolutions referred to us and in addition
thereto we have considered and discussed
the policy the pursuit of which we be-
leve would prove most advantageous to
our constituents and which if adopted
would conduce to the best interests of all
dependent upon the anthracite coal in
dustry.
In pursuance thereof, we recommend
that a committee consisting of the Off
GERS and executive boards of districts l,
and 8. be delegated and instructed to
confer with the representatives of the
various mining companies for the pur-
pose of formulating an agreement to
govern wages, hours of labor and other
conditions of employment; such agree
ment to be effective beginning April l,
1906, the date upon which the award of
the anthracite coal strike commission ex-
pires.
1--WE recommend further that any agree
ment entered into between the above
named committee and the various coal
companies be reported for ratification or
rejection to a convention of anthracite
mine workers to be held prior to April l,
1906
ut Is further recommended that all
resolutions now in the hands of the scale
committee, or which may be introduced
hereafter in this convention bearing upon
the matter of wages, hours of labor and
other conditions of employment, be re-
ferred to the special committee, provided
for herein.
I'VE believe the policy outlined by the
Shamokn convention be that which is
best conserves the interest of the anthra-
cite field and the organization in general,
and therefore recommend:
''rhat the resolution adopted by the
Shamokn convention be endorsed, and
that the full support and cooperation of
the international organization be given
toward carrying the same into effect.
(Slgned on behalf of the scale commit
tee)
WELLINGTON o'CoNNoR,
Chairman.
JOHN P. WHITE, Secretary.
Indianapolis, Ind. January 90 1906
The scale committee desires to recon-
mend the following resolutions to the
convention:
THAT the same relative advance and
changes of conditions that may be secured
by this convention for the districts repre-
scented in the joint convention be secured
by the districts represented in the joint
convention be secured by the districts
who are not represented In the said joint
convention, and that the convention IN
struct the incoming executive board to
use all the power necessary. morally and
financially, to bring about this result"
Mitchell Creates Sensation.
There was a sensational scene in the
convention today, which was an echo OF
the attack made on John Mitchell by
Robert Randall of Dietz, Wyo., In last
years convention. Randall charged
Mitchell at that time with having sold out
the miners in the Colorado strike, and
Mitchell made reply branding the state
ment as lie Randall was expelled from
the organization as a result Today dele
gate named A. F. Germer of Mount Olive,
Ill, made the charge that some of Ran
dalls statements were correct last year.
He presented letter from Secretary Hey
wood of the Western Federation of Min
ers in which Haywood denied the state
ment made in Mitchell's address OF Satur-
day that Western Federation members
were taking the places of the United Mine
Workers on strike. Mr. Mitchell made
reply to this In very heated statement,
denouncng Randalls statements last
year. branding Heywood's statements as