The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-25

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The meeting was to work out details
Of demands to be presented tomor-
row to the superintendent Of all Hill
man mines and to the main office
in Pittsburgh.
The main line Of the demands has
been accepted by mass meetings Of
strikers and those who went back to
work in all these mines, except Edna
which is not on strike, and other
mass meetings later in the week will
decide on action in regard to the re-
port Of the committees sent to in
terview the bosses.
The demands Of the HilInan min
ers are:
1. Wages. Machine coal, AZ cents
ton. Pick coal, SO cents ton. Cut
ting, 9 cents ton. Daymen's wages
based on eight hours as follows: driv-
ers, notormen, snappers, tracklayers,
ETC., $4.25; unskilled inside labor 81;
skilled outside labor, s425; unskilled
outside labor, $685..
2. No blacklisting Of any miners
and especially no blacklisting Of Ne
gro miners.
3. Recognition Of the mine COM
mittees.
4. Right of the miners to elect
their own mine committees.
5. Payment for dead work: Mar
row places 40 cents a yard, cutters
Is cents a yard. Thick slate five
cents an inch. Clay veins, horse
backs. cleaning of falls, etc., to be
/ paid on basis of time spent in COM
plotting the job.
6. Reduction Of rent in company
houses by Is per cent.
z. No check-off for doctor. the
right Of the miners to deal directly
through the mine committee with the
doctor.
8. No car pushing; all empty cars
and supplies to be delivered to the
face. No lay-offs, docking or dis
charges for dirty coal. The mine COM
mittee to have the right to have its
men at the place where the dirty
coal is unloaded.
9. Cutting of coal to be done on
day shift. Cleanup system to be
abolished.
COVERDALE, Pa, Aug. PA
meeting here today august 23) of
all strike committees of the mines
owned by the Taplan interests work
ed out demands for them all, to be
presented simultaneously and ar
ranged for each mine to modify tive
general demands to suit the special
situation in that mine.
The two main companies owned by
the Taplans are Pittsburgh Terminal
Coal Co. in western Pennsylvania.
and Pursglove Mining Co., in West
Virginia. Nearly every mine was rep
resented, including those in West
Virginia.
The list of demands adopted by
the joint strike committees for the
local committees to work over was:
l. Recognition of mine committees.
2. Adequate pay for dead work.
8. Equal turn of the memo ia
voritism.
4. No check-off. CThis demand to
be central, as one of the main griev-
ances OF the men is the robbing of
their pay envelopes every pay day
by the check-off of dues and as
sessments taken by the district Of
fices of the United Mine Workers of
America, with which the Taplan in
terests have contracts in both states).
5. Checkweighmen to be elected by
the miners.
6. Supplies to be delivered to the
face.
Z. Reduction in prices of lamps.
8. Reduction in charges at COM
pany stores.
9. Reduction in rent of company
houses.
The first mine to pass on these
suggested demands was "P and w"
mine of the Pittsburgh Terminal at
Avella. The P and w strike COM
mittee picked out these demands to
fight for:
l. No check-off,
2. Equal turn.
3. Checkweighmen to be elected
by the miners.
4. Recognition Of mine commit
tees.
5. Adequate pay for dead work.
The mine mass meeting and fur
ther meetings of local strike COM
mittees will take place during the rest
of the week, and demands will be pre-
sented simultaneously at all mines
thereafter.
BRIDGEvILLE, Pa, Aug. 24-Any-
body who expects to see down heart
edness or encouragement in the mine
fields should have kept away from