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...strike of the miners in the anthracite coal fields in Pennsylvania, called because the wage contract with the Union had expired on Aug. 31 and no new contract could be agreed upon, continued another week without any progress and practically without any effort made...
...present, agreement between the anthracite operators and mine workers expires Aug. 31, 1925. Your Scale Committee, charged with the responsibility of making a new contract has been unable to arrive at any understanding as effecting wages or conditions of employment to be effective after Aug. 31, 1925. Therefore, our membership in Districts Nos. 1, 7 and 9 is advised that no contract being in effect a suspension of mining will automatically take place at midnight, Monday...
...greatest progress made last week towards the settlement of the controversy between anthracite miners and operators (TIME, July 20 et seq.) was the scratching of seven days off the calendar. The present wage contract in the anthracite industry expires on Aug. 31 and, unless the miners, with their demand for higher wages, and the operators, with their demand for lower wages, reach a compromise by that date, a strike will begin on Sept...
...Kentucky, contiguous to Tennessee, Miss Lela V. Scopes, like her brother an Evolutionist, was refused reappointment to her position in the Paducah schools. Smiling, she announced that she had signed a contract to teach in the Highland Manor School for Girls at Tarrytown...
Thereupon the miners gave Mr. Lewis power to call a strike, on Sept. 1, when the present wage contract expires. Mr. Lewis and Mr. Warriner resumed their exchange of notes...