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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...
...miners' demands: 1) the check-off (for collection of union dues, fines and assessments by the operators, for the unions, from the men's pay) ; 2) an increase of $2.00 a day for miners paid on a time basis, and of 20% for miners paid on the contract (or quantity) basis. Governor Pinchot denied the miners' demand for the checkoff, and compromised the pay demand. Contract miners would get half the increase demanded; men working by the day (now making from $4.20 to $5.60) would receive from 42¢ to 56¢?or only about one-quarter of what they asked...
Since these were the contingent points on which the author had been skeptical they promptly agreed. Miss Adams secured the motion picture rights to Kim for eight years. Despite this extended contract she expects to start work before next Spring...
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...