Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-08-25
COAL MEN GET
S1.5O INCREASE;
BACK AT WORK
Announcement of Agreement
Follows All-Day Confer
ence of Factions.
ALL SEEM SATISFIED
By STAFF Correspondent

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Aug 20
Miners in the Indiana competitive BIZ
luminous coal field today were returning
\ to work after five days of idleness.
y The day men returned to work fol-
owing an all-day conference yesterday
the wage scale committee OF the
operators and the scale committee or
the United Mine Workers of the eleventh
district
The following agreement which was
signed late yesterday between the opera
tors and the officials of the miners,
follows:
4. That the day wages now being
paid to inside men and boys be in
creased % per cent.
-. That all monthly and outside day
mems wages be increased $50 per day.
"3. That any extra time paid day men
and monthly men, directly or indirectly,
for any reason shall continue to be
paid
"A. That this revised schedule of
wages shall be effective as of Aug. 16"
This agreement ends the controversy
existing between the day men and the
operators and which practically par
slyzed the production of coal in this
state.
President Edward Stewart of the
Eleventh district miners sent the follow
ing telegram to all locals, which was read
this morning to the miners before they
boarded the mine trains today:
To the officers and members of all
local unions of District IL Of the United
Mine Workers OF America: Joint\ scale
committee has agreed on 20 per cent in
crease for all inside day labor on present
wages received and 81 80 per day for all
outside day labor and monthly men. eff
fective of Aug. 16. Signed, Ed Stewart,
". H. Rainey and William Mitch
AGREEMENT ENDS
CONTROVERSY
Both President Stewart of the miners
and Phil Penna, secretary Of the Btu
minous Coal Operators association,
stated that this agreement ends the con-
troversy.
Miners who waited for hours in the
vicinity Of the office occupied By the
Joint conference committee yesterday
stated that they were satisfied with the
agreement and all mines would be ia op
Grafton in the state within the next
twelve hours.
This agreement gives the outside men
$50 a day instead of SO and the inside
men get a 25 per cent increase on s.
$5.35 basis.
The concession OF the operators that
the agreement shall date from Aug. 10
was a miners victory.
It was discussion on that concession
which prevented the agreement being
reached until nearly 5 o'clock yesterday
afternoon.
Every effort will be made now to get
a sufficient car supply to handle the
output OF coal in an effort TO make up
for lost time.
The car shortage, It Is feared, might
prove 8 hinderance to the coal output
days.
ILLINOIS MEN
RECEIVE SAME.
LIS understood the Illinois day men
were given the same increase as the In
diana dSy men.
The diggers welcomed the ending Of
the enforced idleness.
Dinner pals were hauled out again
and miners lamps fiickered in the early
morning darkness. as the mine trains
left Terre Haute for the five big centers
of coal production in this district
President Stewart of the Uiners feels
that the contract will be kept to the
letter by the miners.
international President Lewis Of In
dianapolis was informed today that a
settlement had been reached and that
Indiana was again a-coal producing
state
Vice President Rainey of the miners
stated to Times representative last FRI
day that Wednesday of this week would
see the miners back at work.
Mr. Penna expressed himself as salts
fed with the settlement.