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...four points for compromise and peace (TIME, Sept. 10) embodied chiefly a 10% increase of wages for the miners (instead of a 20% increase for contract miners and $2.00 a day for day workers, as demanded) and the abandonment of the check-off (demanded by the miners) . The eight-hour day had already been agreed...
...Cost of the Peace. The eight-hour day will add about $2,500,000 to the cost of mining. The 10% increase in wages will add about $30,000,000 more. Governor Pinchot estimated the cost of anthracite would be raised, at most, 60 c. a ton at the mines. It is generally expected that the public will pay this increase in a magnified form...
...Recognition of the basic eight-hour...
Beginning on Monday, August 13, and on succeeding days various units of the U. S. Steel Corporation and other steel mills changed from the two-shift (twelve-hour day) system to the three-shift (eight-hour day) system. In this way was carried out the promise of Elbert H. Gary, President of the Iron and Steel Institute, that the abolition of the two-shift system would " now " begin. The first changes following Mr. Gary's promise took place in the vicinity of Chicago, at Gary (Ind.), South Chicago and Joliet...
...companies will not be an ious to bring about a completion of the change for some time. By this means they could bring pressure to bear on the next Congress for modification of the immigration laws, on the plea that this is necessary in order to bring about an eight-hour day in the steel mills...