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Green's Speech. Chairman Green opened with a speech and the reading of a long report from the Executive Council, of which he is head. He told that the Federation (composed of 31,261 unions) as of Aug. 31 had 2,878,297 members not counting some 500,000 unemployed...
For three weeks (TIME, July 20 et seq.) the miners had been presenting their case for a 10% wage increase and the check-off (collection by the operators of union dues from miners' wages). The operators' representatives had sat and listened, merely shaking their heads "No." Then John...
Increased wages and the check-off (collecting Union dues from the miners' pay by the operators) were discussed quite fruitlessly. The miners were supposed to be "presenting their case." This presentation will probably take a week or two longer. After that the operators will probably take about the same...
This procedure is still observed between coal operators and coal miners when they are about to 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...
The Situation. The situation in the anthracite and bituminous coal industries is quite 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...