The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-24
MINE WORKERS
MAKE DEMANDS
Want Eight Hours and 121a
Per Cent Advance i'm
Wages.

INDIANAPOLIS. Jan. 2.-The general
scale committee OF the United Mine
Workers OF America today made It's re-
port to the convention. The report was
received and will be taken up for con-
ssdcration tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock.
The report makes the following de-
'nands:
Demands of Committee
First-we recommend that Districts 10.
H. II "a and - be admitted To the joint
conference: also the admission OF all
Outlying districts whose operators are
willing TO participate
Second-We demand a general advance
OF l2lI per cent over the present scale.
Third-We demand run OF mine basis.
Fourth-Wc demand that the differen-
tial between pick and machining shall be
seven cents.
Uniform Day Scale.
Fifth-Wc demand a uniform outside
day wage scale.
Sixth-we demand that all yardage and
dead work be advanced the l2I1 Per cent.
Seventh-We demand that nobody under
lG years OF age shall be employed In or
around the mines.
Eighth-We demand that our contract
become effective April ], 1906. and expire
April l. 1907
Want Eight-Hour Day.
Ninth-We demand that eight hours
shall constitute q 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 fractional part
thereof IT. for any reason. the regular
routine work cannot be furnished inside
OF portion Of the first two hours the
operators may furnish other than regular
| Dor for the uncNpired time
Sensational Scene.
There was a sensational scene In tho
convention today which was an echo OF
! the attack made on John Mitchell by
| Robert Randall OF Dletz. Wyo., In last
years convention Randall charged
| Mitchell at that time with having sold
out the miners In the Colorado strike
ard Mitchell made reply branding the
statement as lie. Randall was expelled
fyom the organization as result
Haywood Makes Denial.
Today delegate named a. F. Germer
| OF Mount Olive, ILL., made the charge
that some OF Randairs statements were
| correct last year He presented a letter
| from Secretary Haywood OF the Western
denied the statement made In Mitchelrs s
address of Saturday that Western FEEDER
alton members were taking the places OF
the United Mine Workers on strike
Mitchell Cites Gases.
Mr. Mitchell made reply to this In very
| heated statement, denouncing handnll
| speech last year. branding Haywood =
statements as false and citing the places
where Western Federation miners had
taken the strikers places. he named sew
cral places in Colorado and cited dis
tricts 2 and Ii and parts Of Washington
State,
President Mitchell again referred to tho
| charge that he had sold out the Colorado
| strike and was strong In his denuncia-
ton of those making the charge. He was
loudly cheered.
Defends Civic Federation.
Mr. Mitchell said the association he had
with the members of the Civic Fedora
| t!on had always been turned to the ad-
| vantage OF the United Mine Workers OF
America He had not committed the or
ganzatlon to anything. Tho Civic Fed
| able gentlemen themselves employers OF
union labor. The cardinal principle of
the Civic Federation. he said, was to
maintain friendly relations with organ
lied labor The Civic Federation had IA
vored the trade agreement and In recog-
nizIng the trade agreement had recog-
nized organized labor.
Can't All Think Alike.
"True" said he 1T has men like Mr..
Elliott but II We all thought alike there
would be no organized labor and no mine
workers organization. There would be
! no necessity for them
John II Walker, Socialist leader was
recognized by Mr.. Mitchell He snid the
argument was tending to widen tho
breach between the Mine Workers and
tho Western Federation Of Miners. He
| I.rrp1 harmony