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...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' pay by the coal companies...
...year wage contract...
...increase in pay for contract miners (i.e., men mining coal at so much per ton), and $1.00 a day increase in pay for all men paid...
...Operators. The operators are expected to refuse the Union demands, asking probably 1) a one-year contract; 2) a reduction of 17 or 20% in wages; 3) rejection of the check-off of Union dues...
...different. The United Mine Workers have virtual control of the anthracite producing area, but control only a part of the bituminous producing fields. It has never been able to force the check-off of Union dues upon anthracite operators. The check-off is a regular feature of the wage contract in the Unionized bituminous fields. In the anthracite fields, the production of coal has been conservative as compared to bituminous production, and there are fewer operators (the Federal Trade Commission, last week, published a report recommending measures to increase competition in the production of anthracite, contending that...