Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-02-26
ANTHRACITE OPERATORS
AGREE TO MEET MINERS
Conference Is Called on Wage
Scale for March
PRICES OF COAL TOO HIGH
Hcnd of Enploycrs' Organization
Assnrts Drdntion In Wage. aud
Rail Rates Requisite to RendJust-
ment with Consumers.

tBy Associntch rrcssl

thraC;ie operators announced here
today that they have agreed to meet
Representatives OF the United Mine
Workers in Joint conference in New
York March II to negotiate new
wage agreement
:. II. Warmer. chairman OF the
policies committee. which adjourned
it, meeting IN Atlantic CITY today.
said /, was the unanimous feeling OF
the operators that there must be "A
Genation in coal prices. and that the
wine workers. for the sake of their
own prosperity and the general good
ali around. must share in this de-
hation.
Seek Wage RcadJustmcnt.
Mr.. Warriner. who is president of
the Lehigh Coal and Navigation
Company. told newspaper men tina,
the Atlantic city meeting was held
TO consider various phases OK the
present labor situation in the an
thracite fields. II was in reply to a
question whether the operators
would ask tho mine workers to ac-
ccpt a reduction in wages at the cx-
piratior OF tho present contract on
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riner said. IN which the price OF an
,hracra coal cannot EXPECT 10 do
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Mr.. Warmer would no, say whe,h-
CT or not the GENERATORS had agreed
uron a definite wage basis TO he sub
mitted to the miners next month. He
said they probably would no, indi-
cato this until the miners demands.
formulated IN the anthracite conven-
t!on In Shamokin last month and rati-
fed by the international convention
In indianapolis last Saturday. are
officially laid before them by the mine
workers In New York. The mine
workers adopted nineteen demands Al
Shamokn and also decided TO sus-
pend work on April l In the event
That no agreement has been reached
by that time. The demands provide
that the contract wage scale he in.
creased % per cent and that All d,v
men Ia. granted AN increase ., 6,
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MI N"E4 'h!-' gave out the CORES
n"hdence between himself and John
J. Lewis. president OF tho United
Mine Workers. in arranging for IN.
first meeting. MIR Levi. in his ,.t.
tore ,,a.r A. L,o,.,,
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,."r.,e coal helas between the an
ihra' cit" coal operators and the United
Nine workers Of America. districts
one, sfvcn and nine, terminates on
March 81. 1899. In recognition NJ,
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an" associate anthracite"
operators upon the question OF the
holding of Joint conference for the
purpose Of negotiating a new wage
agreement TO he ene,,ivo ,r,,o
.April !.
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