The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-01-26
OPERATORS EXPLAIN
MINE WAGE DEMAND
Say Granting 1t Would Ne
cessitate S1.30 a Ton Ad-
vance I'm Price
PUBLIC MUST PAY
81 6 WHOLE INCREASE
Overtime and Other Proposed Changes
Would Further Advance Price - Scale
Committee Named to Meet With Min
crs' I'niGns After Convention.

Nv SufG ~ ffher advance E'itCe - scare
Committee Named to Meet With Min
ers' GniGns After Convention.
NEW YORK. Jan PC Following the
demands Of the anthracite mine workers
for % per cent increase in contract
rates and 81 a day increase tor all day
meR, the general committee Of authra-
cite operators, in statement issued
here said Shat the granting OF such IN
crtases would mean an advance OF at
| least SI.3o ton in The mine price OF
domestic sizes Of hard coal
The statement. which also declares
that tie cost of production would be
| increased 1874 cents a ton, is the first
Is he issued by the operator. since the
I United Mine Workers adopted their new
wage demands at their tri-district cons
vention last week at shamokin, Pa. No
/ comment is made on the decision OF the
linen To strike ON April ], il Il satisiac-
tory agreement cannot be reached with
+ litr employers by that date, when the
present contract eNWrcs
I he operators have appointed a wage
scale committee. headed by = b. War.
rincr. president of the Lehigh coai aid
Navigation Co. Philadelphia, Pa, 10
meet with the wab scale committee ~
tine miner, as soon as such q confer
cnce is authorized by the union. The
demands Of thc anthracite miners must
Hrst le approved ut the lntgruatiuual
convention OF the union al Indianapolis.
litd., on Feb IL, before ANY conferences
with the operators can be held.
No definite reflections OF rae union $
= demands is expected until the Joint con
ference is held. and then the negotia-
lions win be taken Up ~ subcammittress
IN
80 Wage demands OF ~ per cent iu
crease an contract rates and N day in-
CREASE for all daT mrT, said the OBJ
? orators statement, made by the trI-
district santhractel convention Of the
United Mine Workers of America I'm
/ >hamokjn last week, If granted would
mean an increase of at least SI.39 a ton
en the miue price Of domestic sizes OF
l ant bTucltC-4Tatr. egg. stove and nut
which the consumer would pay
Other dewaEds, like thai for timr
r. aud half TIME for overtime and double
tiur for Sundays and HOLIDAYS, would
also increase labor costs and correspond
= ingiy Increase prices.
A. calculated by the Anthracite pre-
Ggccr-. the average total mine cost oil
d g gross tea ef anthracite j. S5.53. OF
Which ss92 is labor cost These figures
arc tuE She FIRST hab of l92l.-
80 IL bias also been Shown that only g
b 4.aE =. e-{r 81. .ayt hraGitr shIpmeutS art
,. e the prepagad. doist- Is sizGs, 40 pei
! cent pra oasl ana the remaining 20 nni
I cent steam sizes. whica AWAY sell b.
q low. pTUtUetivu- cosi.- .-
= 80 With She bitUmwou~ industry ia 2
u slump which cuf down the working time
q shout tn per caut I'm December. 1921. uno
{ lmt prices at tine lowest pa,ut. it ha-
- hg,H Impossible FOR anthracite steam
n Sizes TO compete with soft coal Thor.
ha been alUlust no demand Ior pea coal
: and producers who nave storage taclN
$ ties consequently have hundreds Of thou
, ,uEls of tons of pea and huclwheai
4 ~5te. I'm stock Smaller operators wEC
,Havc To move these sizes as mined weri
ubiiacd 40 take any mime price they
aauld get. Il is clear from this that
with the existing situation ia small sizes
r Elelv to urrvail through the comm.
ivsar. ANY increase granted 10 he miHt
O. workers must be applied eutirelE on chs
n prices of the prepared .Izas, or So pei
/ cent of The out put
sing the labor cost of the Cast >Is
n months at 1921 eS}02 per cross tom g,
-l q basis. the increase in labor cost Il tn,
Il WAGE demdud~ were granted would bs
1s3 etnt- Il ton ou The total produe! ron
( Applied to HE TrUlared sizes or 60 peI
r cenf ct thu iruductiun, IL works cut Is
. Si2O as given above. -