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...TIME Scranton...
...coal operators and coal miners when they are about to join battle over a wage scale. It was observed, last week, at Atlantic City. There the miners came, headed by John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, to present their demands, drawn up a week before at Scranton, Pa. (TIME, July 13), for a new wage contract to replace that which expires on Aug. 31. The miners ask 1) a two-year contract; 2) increases of 10% for contract miners and $1 a day for day workers; 3) the check-off (collection of Union dues out of miners...
...Scranton, Pa., the tri-district convention of the United Mine Workers assembled. The three districts are Nos. 1, 7, 9, which constitute the anthracite mining region. The significance of the convention is that, on Aug. 31, the two-year wage contract between the United Mine Workers and the anthracite operators expires. If it is not renewed, there will be a "suspension of operations...
...Scranton Montgomery...
Died. Dr. John H. Harris, LL. D., 78, President Emeritus of Bucknell University (Lewisburg, Pa.); in Scranton, Pa. He was President of Bucknell for 30 years...