Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-23
MINERS OUTLINE DEMANDS
Seals Committee Report Calls for Advance
ofTwelvs and 0ns-Hslf Per Cent.
VIII INSIST UPON RuN-or.sINt BASIS
President Mitchell Announces that
Conference with Anthrn cite
Operators VIII he Held
February 10.

.lNDlANAP0LlS Ind, Jan. 22.-The gen
eral scale committee of the United Mine
workers OF America at O'Clock this
afternoon made its report to the convention.
Iheir report was received and will be
taken up for consideration tomorrow morn
ing at o'clock. The report is as follows;
We, your committed on scale, after care
Iul consideration submit the following re-
First-We demand that, districts Il. 81. q
ana ana 70 be admitted to the Joint conference;
whose operators ars willing to participate.
Second-Wes demand a general advance of
IA per cent over the present scale
Fourth-We demand that the differential
between pick and machine mining shall be
Fifth--we demand a uniform outside day
Sixth-We demand that all yardage and
dead work be advanced the 12x per cent.
Seventh--We demand that nobody under
is years OF ago shan be employed in or
around the. mines -su. g.
become effective April l. 1906. and expire
April I, 1907. S -
Ninth-we demand that eight hours shall
constitute days work,
Tenth-That when the men 20 into the
mines IN the morning they shall be entitled
works the fun two hours. but after. the
Hrst two hours, the men shall be paid for
every hour thereafter by the hour for each
IL
the regular. routine work cannot be furIl-
,shed the inside labor after a portion of the
nrst two hours, the operators may furnish
other than regular labor for the unexpired
time ..-. -....
shamokin Convention Endorsed.
At the, joint convention of districts 1, I
ana D. held at shamokin, Pa. December
from the scale committee was adopted:
We have examined carefully all of the
resolutions referred to us and in addition
thereto we have considered and discussed
the policy, the pursuit OF which, we believe
would prove most advantageous to our con-
stituents and which, II adopted, would con-
duce to the best, interests of all dependent
upon the anthracite industry
IN pursuance thereof we recommend that
committe consisting Of the officers and
executive boards OF districts l. and Q be
delegated and instructed to confer with
| the representatives of the various mining
an agreement to govern wages, hours of
labor and other conditions of employment
such agreement to be effective beginning
| April ], 1895, the date upon which the
award of the anthracite coal strike commits
/ sion expires. - "rt .'~
We recommend further, that any agree
| ment entered into between the above
! named committee and the various coal
l companies be reported for ratification or
| rejection 20 a convention of anthracite
1905. =
| It is recommended, further, that all reso-
| buttons now In the hands of the scale COM
| mlttee, or which may be- introduced here
after In this convention bearing upon the
| matter of wages, hours of labor and other
conditions of employment. be referred to
/ the special committee provided for herein.
I we believe the policy outlined by the
| Shamokin convention to be that which best
conserves the interests of the anthracite
| he'd and the organization in general and
therefore Eecommend that the resolution
| endorsed and that the fun support and CO.
operation of the, int irrational organization
be gwen toward carrying the same into
signed on behalf Of the scale committee:
| ....n..5,i WELLINGTON O'CONNER,
| , -.s-. .+t.,s.,.- Chairman.
! JOHN p. WHITE. Secretary,
Indianapolis, Ind; Jan %, 1906.
The scale committee desires to recon-
mend the following 'resoIution to the con-
Tint the -sanieo Relative advance and
changes OF scenditsons that may be Sc
cured by. this conyention for the districts
! represented In the joint convention be Sc
! cured by the districts which are not repre-
scented in the said Joint convention, and
that the convention instruct the incoming
executive to use all the power necessary,
morally and financially, to bring about this
result AAs-