The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1910-04-28
THE COMMITTEE
MAKES PROGRESS
Several sticking Points, Deferred
to Later Date.
DEADLOCKS ARE THUS D0DGED
Mooted Questions VIII be Given to a
Special Committee and Great
Amount OF Useless Arsu-
ment Eliminated.

Des Moines, April 27.-Special BY
tablng the single and double work
question on which the joint scale
committee was in deadlock Saturday
and Monday, one obstacle was re-
moved, but the machine question and
the mine run question bobbed up.
They met a similar fate--laid on the
table to be taken up later, when they
will all be referred TO a special com
mittee.
BY lodging the questions upon
which the miners and operators diff
proceeded far with the contract. Only
few details, with the exception of
the deferred questions, remain to be
settled before the agreement in the
contract for the fourth subdistrict
and the general resolutions are com.
pleted.
In the opinion of John P. White,
president of the district miners un'
ion, the questions which have been
deferred will be taken up by special
subcommittee. 1t is said that if the
scale committee took upon itself to
settle the machine mining questions
of the first and third subdistricts, the
single and double work questions OF
the third subdistrict and the mine run
questions of the third and fourth
subdistricts, an agreement would not
be reached for several months.
by deferring the mooted questions
to a special subcommittee, great
amount of useless argument from
both sides will be eliminated stated
President White last evening. ION
some of the questions the miners and
operators in the districts affected
would never compromise on any
thing
After the deadlocks had been dodg'
ed yesterday the committee raised
the wages of the bumpers, chunkers,
screening car men, bOX-car men, drlV'
ers for outside work, mine teamsters
and all other top labor in the third
subdistrict to $2.O1 per day, in accord
ance with the demand of the national
miners union for an increase of 5.55
per cent on all day labor.
! The wages paid men who use cut
ting machines in driving entries
turning rooms, and breaking through
distractions were increased 900 per
| cent.
| In Boone county, OF subdistrict NO
| 4, the mining price for screened lnml
coal was raised from $1.l0 to Sill?
Entry driving will be paid for during
| the next two years at the rate OF SIS
per yard and room turning at the
rate of 1894. The price on Frazer
screened lump coal per ton for the up
per vein was raised from 95 cents tC
81 90 and for the lower vein, from
| $1.10 to $l.15.
In Webster county OF the same sub
district the price of Tyson screened
| lump coal was raised from $llO tf
l$l.15. Pretty vein, screened mmI
coal will be paid for al the rate OF
Sl.2O per ton. Entry driving in the
Pretty vein field was raised from
$2.47 per yard to $261. Room turn
ing was raised from $3.63 to S".s4
The mine run prices in the subdistric
were deferred for settlement.
The price of Coalville hard coal
screened lump was raised from $40;
to $1.1O. Entry driving in hard Goa
was raised from sissy to $l.S512
and soft coal from $1.2G to 1913.
Des MOmes, la, April 27.-Special
The coal miners won another victory
in the joint conference with the oper
ators today when the pay for room
turning in hard coal was raised from
S3.15 to $3.35, and in soft coal from
IS2.SI to $2.97. In the double shift
work the men won again, getting al
advance of % cents a yard. At Col
Inns, for lump, the miners Will Se
$1.35 instead of $3.50 ton as before