Word: wages
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evening of Aug. 31 anthracite mining adjourned sine die. The adjournment was complete. About 155,000 miners left the mines?not technically "striking," but " suspending operations "because a new wage contract had not been executed. In the hurried days immediately before, the function of peacemaker between miners and operators?given up as hopeless by the Coal Commision?descended upon Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania. He had desired it so. But he did not succeed in preventing the strike...
...Meet again; talk again; quarrel again; leave again. Meet again . . ." continued to be an accurate history of the attempts to arrive at a new wage agreement to prevent an anthracite strike on Sept...
Peace threatened. But it was a false alarm. Apparently the operators had misunderstood the miners. Attached to the check-off demand were provisions for full recognition of the United Mine Workers and a two-year wage contract. The operators assumed that in waiving the check-off demand the miners had waived these conditions, too. President Lewis of the miners said that when he waived the checkoff, he waived the checkoff, and nothing else. He further made it plain that when he asked the operators to stop checking off rent and supplies, from the miners' wages he did not mean...
Three weeks ago the miners and operators broke off negotiations for a new wage contract because the operators refused to accept the miners' demand for the "check-off." The Coal Investigation Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature has threatened to advise all New Englanders to boycott hard coal and use soft instead. The latest development was a call from the United States Coal Commission asking miners and operators to meet with it in New York in an attempt to reach a settlement...
Organization of the Operators. The operators have no permanent organization for dealing with the union, which, in the opinion of the Commission, is detrimental to the industry. When wage agreements are negotiated a General Policies Committee represents the operators. But otherwise companies deal individually with local unions. The result is much difference in the attitudes of various operators in dealing with the actual application of the agreement. The policies of the operators are of many shades, from the one extreme ("peace-at-any-price" group) to the other extreme ("get-away-with-what- ever-you-can" group...