The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-12

would be submitted for prompt decision.
 The demands also provided that each employe be given an itemized pay statement at least one day before pay days that a discharged employe have the right to present his grievance in , the same faapner as provided for in the case of other grievances; that no person be refused employment or in
 any other way discriminated against on account of their membership in any labor organization; that the com panies collect from each employee
 such amounts as might be levied by their organization monthly. the amounts
 thus collected to be turned over to an authorized committee at the colliery; that all employees who are required to work safety lamp should receive 10 per cent extra in addition to the re-
 gular wages or prices; and that the violation of any provisions of the agree ployers should not invalidate any of it's provisions.
 MitcheIps Reasons.
 President Mitchell acting for the miners committee, in letter to the committee of operators, outlined the reasons upon which the demands of the miners were based as follows.
 We favor a uniform scale of wages for men paid by the day, hour or week, because of the fact the men perform ing precisely the same character and indeed the same amount of labor. can not work with any degree of content ment while the compensation received by them is not uniform. At present this condition exists in the anthracite field.
 we propose an increase of ten per cent In the rates paid to the contract miners for several reasons. First, the general industrial. commercial and frui nf ff1S. tify an increase of wages to all class es of labor. The prosperity of the coal carrying roads is unprecedented as is demonstrated by the reported saw ings and Nthe enhanced value of their stocks.
 We favor an eight hour work day. because eight hours is the standard working day of coal mine workers in nearly all the bituminous districts of our country as well as in many Of the mining districts of Great Britain and the continent and eight hours is as long as a man can work in coal mine without doing injury to his health and consequent injury to society. We be" lieve that the establishment Of max imum eight hour working day will not reduce production materially, even if figured upon the basis of the loutput per man ger working day.
 We favor the system of weighing and paying for coal by weight wher- ever the conditions of the vein would make this system practicable, because the present system whereby coal Is paid for by the car has given rise to much discontent owing to the varied sizes of cars now in use, to the constant friction which naturally arises when new cars are built and introduced and to the seemingly unceasing desire of the companies to have the men load more coal upon these cars without corresponding increase in compensa- ton.
 We favor a reconstruction of the board of conciliation because of the delays that have occurred during the past three years in the adjustment of grievances; indeed there are some cases which have been in the hands of the board for two years without final de- cision having been rendered and in very few cases have final decisions been reached in less than three months time"
 President Mitchell left at noon today for Indianapolis where he goes to pre- pare for the convention of the Mine Workers.
 MT. Mitchell declined absolutely toi say anything regarding the reply of the operators, refusing the demands of the miners. None of the other members of the miners committee would talk.
 Prior to MT. Mitchells leaving there was a lengthy meeting of the miners committee.