Word: checkoff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...operators refused any increase; the compromise leaves the question to arbitration. The miners proposed an investigation of the operators' capacity to pay higher wages and refused arbitration; the operators proposed arbitration, but dislike opening their records to investigation; the compromise proposes both by one board. The miners demanded the checkoff; the operators refused it; the compromise proposes a modified check...
...anthracite mine operators. There was no secret about why he wanted to see them. He wanted to end the anthracite strike which has endured since Sept. 1. What actually passed was indeed secret. Apparently the miners were not willing to give up their demand for higher wages and the checkoff, nor were the operators willing to yield either of these points. When his visitors had gone, Governor Pinchot said nothing. He turned his back on Harrisburg, the state capital, and went to his Milford home to think matters over for ten days...
...operators) were discussed quite fruitlessly. The miners were supposed to be "presenting their case." This presentation will probably take a week or two longer. After that the operators will probably take about the same time to present their case: reasons for decreasing wages, refusing the checkoff...
...wage contract between the United Mine Workers and the operators was officially signed after the representatives of both parties had lunched with Governor Pinchot at his home at Milford, Pa. The anthracite strike is over. The miners have a 10% increase in wages, an eight-hour day, but no checkoff...
...dues, fines and assessments by the operators, for the unions, from the men's pay) ; 2) an increase of $2.00 a day for miners paid on a time basis, and of 20% for miners paid on the contract (or quantity) basis. Governor Pinchot denied the miners' demand for the checkoff, and compromised the pay demand. Contract miners would get half the increase demanded; men working by the day (now making from $4.20 to $5.60) would receive from 42¢ to 56¢?or only about one-quarter of what they asked...