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...third time since the calling of the miners' strike on Sept. 1, negotiations for a new wage contract in the anthracite industry failed. There was only one meeting last week and then an adjournment. The operators made two final proposals...
...Lynett of the Scranton Times brought the conference together by a plan for a five year conference together by a plan for a five year contract at present wages, subject to successful negotiations at the end of two years. Because it protects against untoward wage reductions, the miners quickly accepted this scheme as a basis for conference. But the operators now object that it would freeze the wage scale, and are busy explaining that their return to conference does not mean acquiescence in Mr. Lynett's project...
...First Stage was the opening of negotiations last summer before the old anthracite wage contract expired at midnight Aug. 31. miners asked a 10% wage increase and the check-off (collection of union dues out of miners' pay envelopes by the operators), these demands the operators assumed a general attitude of negation. The negotiations from July 9 to Aug. 4 never reached even a bargaining stage. The deadlock was apparent and they were broken...
...there would be no reduction in wages and at least some chance of an increase in wages; that no system of arbitration would be set up which either now or later might reduce wages. Their check-off demand was retained, probably as a trading point. The length of the contract might so far as they were concerned be anything up to five years. But they were determined not to have arbitration, and suggested as an alternative having the operators open their books and having a board determine, on the basis of the operators' profits, how much wages should be raised...
Judge von Moschzisker's next topic of discussion was the coal situation. "There is only one point of difference between the two contending factions in the present controversy," he said. "They can agree as to a wage scale and contract for the present, but the operators insist on the arbitration of the wage scale when the contract expires. John Lewis, leader of the miners, says that an agreement to this proposition would be entering into voluntary slavery. However, contrary to general opinion. I am sure that both parties are trying to serve the public faithfully. Pennsylvania is suffering just...