The Adair County news., 1922-05-02
MINERS WILL Get
$4,000, PAY
Big Wage Distribution to Strikers
Will Be Started This
Week.
WILL HELP men HOLD OUT
Only Big Cash Payment That Will Be
Made During the Suspension
Wages Due for is Days
Work During March.

Indianapolis, April 1O.-ldle coal
miners of the country this week will
receive their last pay, estimated at
$3O,OOO,OO0 by union officials and re-
garded by them as a strike fund.
The big wage distribution, an impor-
tant factor in the miners ability to
continue the general suspension of
work that began a week ago on the
order of the United Mine Workers of
America, is for the final half Of
March-iD all, fifteen working days.
The big sum is several times the
total cash of the union organizations
national, state and local-and comes
to the miners with an indefinite period
Of idleneSs ahead of them. 1t is the
only big cash payment that will come
during the suspension, the union war
chest not permitting any general strike
benefits.
Is Biggest Pay Day.
AS most of the anthracite mines
were kept on full time in March and
the bituminOus mines generally Oper-
ated almost two-thirds of the time,
the miners last pay is among the
best sums the men have received in
several months. The exact amount
and its appOrtiOnment in various coal
fields is not a certainty, but William
ion, declared that $90,0OO,OOO is a
very conservative" estimate. Mine
owners here agreed with this state
ment.
Payment of the wages has begun in
the Pennsylvania anthracite region
and in parts Of Illinois. Monday is
pay day In Indiana and some other
fields, but elsewhere 1t Is as late as
Friday. More than $20O0O,OOO will
be paid to the men in the districts,
regarded as forming the stronghold
of the suspension in the Pennsylvania
anthracite region, the central COM
petitive fields and the southwest in
terstate district.
For the anthracite miners, Mr..
Green estimated that $7,500,OO0 was
due them for work between March
10 and 81. The central competitive
field with its 215,0O0 union workers,
he said, would receive about $10505,-
600 and the southwest interstate
region, almost $2,8OOOOO. In other
bituminous union fields, the wages due
were estimated at $7,00O,OOO, about
half being to the men in central Penn
sylvania and West Virginia.
Cite Report of v. S.
While exact distribution Of the
wages was said by Mr.. Green to be
impossible until reports are complete,
he pointed out on the basis of the ge-
illogical survey reports that 25,0OO,0OO
tons Of soft coal and 100000 tons
Of anthracite were mined in the last
half Of the month. Union miners were
said to have produced at least two
thirds Of the soft coal, and the whole
anthracite industry is closed on ac-
count of the unions suspension of
work. The labor cost to the ton, ac-
cording TO the unions contention,
RACES from $1.40 TO $1.50 a ton, at
which figure $3O,0OO,OOO would be real
ized from the production of 21,O00,000
to 100000 tons.
The geological survey reports, re-
ferred to by Mr.. Green, gave the bi-
luminous daily production for March
10 to March %, both inclusive, at an
average of 34,794 cars, approximately
1,75O,O00 tons, an increase coming with
the approach of the date set for the
suspension of work. Anthracite pro-
duction for the week ended March
%, was given as 1,O95,O0O tons and
that of March Is, at 100000 tons,
with the last five days Of work being
unaccounted for.