The Indianapolis times., 1932-02-06
MINERS ADOPT
WAGE SCALE;TO
ASK 6-HOUR DAY
Convention Is Adjourned;
Oil Tariff, Bank Law
SuuueSted.

With almost unanimous adoption
Of the wage scale resolution Friday,
the thirty-second convention Of the
United Mine Workers Of America
was adjourned.
John Boylan, Scranton, presi-
dent of District l and John
OLeary, Pittsburgh, we're elected
delegates to the 1882 worlds min
ing conference in London. Indian
apolis was selected as the meeting
place for the 1884 convention.
recommending that when new
wage contracts are made this year
the resolutions for a five-day week
and six-hour day be incorporated,
the wage scale committee report
asked that the policy of 1923 and
1880 be continued, providing that
the districts be permitted to nego-
tiate the best wage agreements pos
sible in their respective districts.
Bank Law Asked
Two other resolutions adopted
asked federal legislation guaran-
teeing deposits in banks, and that
there be enacted a 81 barrel tariff
on fuel oil.
Uniformity of wages is to be an
aim of the scale conferences.
The wage resolution also points
out that an appeal was made to
President Hoover for a conference
of coal operators and union repre-
sentatives TO consider a coal indus
try stabilization program, but that
no such conference has been held,
and, therefore the request should be
renewed.
William Lark of Terre Haute op-
posed the committees recommended
tions on the ground that because
of the competitive nature of the In
diana and Illinois field a two-state
conference should have been pro-
posed.
Conference Plea Denied
"If Illinois miners confer with
their operators before the Indiana
meetings, and accept a wage reduc-
ton, then that will affect our ne
gotiations adversely" he said.
There is no indication that the
operators in both states would
agree to meet in such a joint con-
ference" declared President John L.
Lewis.
There is ample leeway for dis
tricts to engage in any interstate
conferences, which they may agree
upon
Today's thrust from insurgent
ranks, coming only few hours be-
of plea through the appeals and
grievances committee, from a de-
cision of the international executive
board denying subdistrict No. 9,
West Frankfort, ILL.,, the right to
incorporate in its constitution a
clause limiting tenure of Office of
subdistrict officers.
Insurgents Dissatisfied
The committees recommendation
for rejection of the appeal was
adopted after brief debate.
Unity in the convention was OBJ
tanned on passage of recommended
tions urging the coal miners sup
port of federal regulation of the
bituminous industry; the five-day
week and siX-hour day working
schedule; old age pensions; unem-
ployment insurance, and the pro-
posed $5,000,000,000 federal public
works program.
The Illinois group, although
severely chastised by administration
Spokesmen for its alleged "con-
spiracy to overthrow the interna-
tional," and the injunction which it
holds against the high executives,
indicated by its continued attacks
on the administration that it would
leave the session still dissatisfied.
Under a resolution adopted by the
convention after nearly three days
of bitter debate, the Illinois officials
were instructed to dissolve the in