ANTHRACITE COAL MINERS
PRESENT WAGE DEMANDS TO
OPERATORS IN NEW YORK
PHILADELPHIA, March 10 (by
Associated Press).—Demands for a 60
per cent increase in wages for con
tract minors, $2.00 a day raise for
iay men, and a six-hour day and fiv#
day week for men paid by the day or
month, were presented to the anthra
cite coal operators in New York yes
terday by the union representatives
of the hard coal division. These de
mands were formulated at a conven
tion of the anthracite miners in
Wflkes-Barre, last August and rati
fied by the national convention of
the United Mine Workers of Ameri
can in Cleveland in September.
The conference of operators and
mine workers next month will endea
vor to negotiate a new agreement to
take the place of the contract now in
force.
The present general wage agree
ment covering the anthracite industry
was entered into in May. 1916, for
four years ending March 31 this year
Because of war conditions, wages
have been since readjusted by supple
mental agreements, between the
miners and operators.
About 170.000 mine workers will be
affected by the new contract to he
negotiated. The miners’ scale com
mittee which will meet the operators
will be composed of the officers and
Executive board members of the three
districts comprising the anthracite
fields, the three international board
members i^" the hard coal regions and
three mine workers from each district.
No announcement has been made as
to the number of men who will repre
sent the coal mine owners. It is ex
pected, however, that after the de
mands are formally presented and
views are exchanged between the two
sides, a small sub-committee will be
named to carry the actual negotia
tions.
When in final form the agreement
will be presented to the full com
mittee for adoption. In the case of
the miners, the agreement will have
to go back to the convention of the
mine workers for ratification.
Whether the mine workers will re
main at work, if an agreement is not
reached by March 31, will depend
largely, it is said, on how strenuously
the operators oppose the demands. No
opinion has thus far been given by
^either side as to the outcome of the
negotiations. The opinion was ex
jlressed. however, that the negotia
tions probably would not be taken up
seriously until the bituminous wage
scale has been agreed upon.
The demands of the mine workers
are as follows:
“That the next contract be for a
period of not exceeding two years and
that the making of individual agree
ments and contracts in the mining of
coal shall be prosecuted.
“The contract wage scales be in
creased 60 per cent, and that the in
creases secured in the supplemental
agreements of 1917 and 1918 shall be
included in the wage scale as the
basis upon which the 60 per cent
shall be added and that all day men
be granted an increase of $2.00 per
day.
“A uniform wage scale be estab
lished so that the various occupations
of like character at several collieries
shall command the same wage and
shovel crews operating for coal
companies shall be paid not less than
the rates paid by the contractors to
shovel men.
“A work day of not more than six
hours from bank to bank be estab
lished for all classes of inside and
outside day labor, five days per week,
the uniform sales to be the basis upon
which advance above demanded shall
apply with time and haif time for
for overtime and double time for
Sundays and holidays.
a ciosea snop contract, which
means full recognition of the United
Mine Workers of America as a party
to the agreement.
“All dead work shall be paid for
on the consideration basis existing at
thie colliejry and that jwhere more
than one miner is employed they shall
receive the same rate.
* “Payment for all sheet iron, props,
timber, forepolling and cribbing
^here mines are prevented from
working on account of lack of supplies
that they be accorded the opportunity
of making a shift at some other work.
“In the settlement of grievances the
aggrieved parties shall have the right
to demand settlement upon a basis of
equity and when such equity settle
ment is requested the condition of
1902 shall not enter into or prejudice
the case.
“A uniform rate of seventeen cents
per inch be paid for all refuse in all
kinds of mining up to ten feet wide..
“Wherever practicable coal shall be
paid for on the legal ton basis and
that dockage shall be eliminated.
“That all reel motors, one motor
man and two brakemen be employed
and that all other motors and engine
assistants or patchers be employed
and that when motormen or engineers
are repairing their motors or engines,
that their assistants shall be em
ployed to help in the work.
“For all tools lost through no fault
of employes as result of squeezes,
water or fire, the men be compen
sated for such losses.
“Where contract miners are em
ployed doing company work, the com
pany hall supply them with the neces
sai’y tools and failing to do so, shall
compensate the miners by paying
each miner not less than one extra
hour per day for the use of such tools
and that the company shall supply to
all company men the necessary tools
free of charge.
“Where contract miners encounter
abnormal conditions in their working
places they shall have the privilege
of going on consideration work. A
definition of consideration work shall
be written into the agreement.
“The supplemental agreement
which expires with the declaration
of peace shall be continued until the
expiration of the contract and our
officers be inistrocted to immediately
notify the representatives of the
operators of this decision.
“Check-weighmen and check-dock
ing bosses be permitted to serve as
members of the committees.’’
WASHINGTON, March 10 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The department of ag
riculture, in co-operation with mutual
insurance companies, has prepared
suggestions for a state law providing
for the organization of farmers’ mu
tual fire insurance companies, to meet
the needs of the states whose laws
make no suitable provision for such
companies.
The value of these companies, the
department of agriculture says, is
demonstrated by the record of approx
imately 2,000 such organizations in the
United States, that carry a total in
surance exceeding $6,000,000,000 on
property valued at more than $7,500,
000,000, or more than two-fifths of the
value of all insurable farm property
in the forty-eight states.
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make it easy for twenty or more quali
fied individuals to organize a farm
ers’ mutual insurance company. At
the same time provisions are included
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“Wise Kid” Confesses to Embez
zlement of $38,000 in
New York.
GENIUS FOR DETAIL
Broker’s Messenger, Aged 16, Says
Employers Put Temptation in
Way of Young Boys—He
Had No Girl.
#
New York.—Elias Tieman, aged 16,
self-confessed embezzler of more than
$88,000, was recently arrested in De
troit and brought back to this city.
The police have dubbed him the “one
wise kid.” He has a genius for detail.
If his companion, Steve Ostovicli, had
not harbored a desire to see his foster
parents in Detroit, the chances are the
“one wise kid” would now be on his
way to Egypt, or some other oriental
country.
Tieman. a former messenger for Z.
I,. Prince company, New York bond
brokers, disappeared Sept. 15, with
$88,000 worth of Liberty bonds he was
carrying to a nearby bank. He had as
accomplices two former sailors, youths
little older than he.
The robbery had been planned
months before and every detail tend
ing to his escape had been arranged,
his photographs destroyed, belt buckles
with individual initials bought to cor
j respond with the aliases for identifi
I cation in case of unexpected trouble,
! and towns picked to hide in. Every
detail was rehearsed, studied and per
fected.
$12 Pay Caused Crime.
“I took the bonds,” said the “one
wise kid.” “The reason is simple. 1
got $12 a week. They let me carry ns
high as half a million dollars in nego
tiable securities. Wlmt else would one
expect? Lots of hoys in New York,
who work after school hours, get only
$7 a week, and carry these fabulous
j sums about with them, with no guard,
j or check on their movements.
I “I have studied this thing carefully,
and it is my conviction that many
brokers in New York got their start
in some dishonest way. Some took the
method I used, others followed other
ways, betrayal of trust, or information,
. l III! i . f li
I Took the "Bonds.”
gambling on the exchange with their
employers’ money, with a winning
I streak to help them.
“These thefts will continue in New
| York so long as they hire $7-a-week
boys to run about with millions. It is
not human nature to resist such temp
tation.
“Can't Trust a Woman."
“I had no girl. If I had, I would
have been ip jail in ten days. One can
not trust a woman.
“We went to West Palm Beach, but
we were careful to go before the sea
son opened. We left Florida early, be
fore the tourists started, and moved
north.
“I was in New York and even at
the doors of the city hall, when the
hunt was the hottest. It was my first
job. Undoubtedly it will be my last.
Friends of mine, with few morals, put'
the idea in my head and pointed out
to me the injustice of my salary in
connection with my work.”
The bonds, with the exception of
$4,000, which was spent, have been
recovered.
Lassoes Coyote From Auto.
Santa Cruz, Cal.—A" coyote was
lassoed from an automobile by Geary
Imlay, who is in the employ of the
city water department and who, with
other employees, was returning from
the dam at Majors creek. He impro
vised a lariat from a rope in the car,
which he threw and got the animal by
the neck. The coyote jvas pulled into
the car and was finally tied in the rear
of the truck and is now in captivity
In the corporation yard.
Must Wear Trousers.
New York.—To be healthy a woman
must wear trousers, said Miss Fanny
Harley, registered at an exclusive ho
tel here. Demonstrating, she strolled
down 5th avenue in a pair of white
flannels.
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BLASTS FROM |
PITTSBURGH, March 10 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Intense blast furnace
activity, combined with low temper
atures, has in recent weeks given to
the Pittsburgh district some of the
most beautiful “furnace comets” it has
ever seen. But they are gradually
losing their brilliancy, and with the
approach of spring, scientists say, they
will vanish until favorable conditions
reappear next winter.
“Furnace comets” are great, broad,
shafts of yellow light which pierce
the black background of a murky sky
in a most spectacular manner. They
flash almost without a moment’s not
ice, and fade almost as quickly, only
to reappear as bright, if not brighter
than before. Usually there are two
of them, at times rising perpendicular
but oftener cutting the sky like a
beam from a searchlight.
Scientists at the Allegheny obser
vatory explain the lights by saying
(hat the light from the blast furnace
penetrates the atmosphere above the
city to a great height, and there be
ing caught by frost crystals send back
the reflection in the form of broad
bands.
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CONSTITUTION
HARRISBURG, Pa., March 10 (by
Associated Press). — Pennsylvania’s
commission on constitutional amend
ment and revision, which for two
months has been considering tenta
tive changes in the organic law of the
state, has taken a recess until April,
when it will hold hearings open to
all citizens who have suggestions to
make.
The present constitution has been
in force for forty-five years with but
few changes. The opinion that parts
of the constitution are antiquated and
that large municipalities can not prop
erly function under some of its al
leged restrictions, crystallized in the
appointment of the commission to
study the constitution with a view to
recommending to the next legislature
whether it should be amended or
whether a convention should be called
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to make an entire revision.
Many changes were tentatively
made in the preliminary study. One
of them was the insertion of an
amendment giving women the right
to vote. Efforts are being made to
give Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and
other cities a larger measure of home
rule, and changes in the method of
making appropriations to charitable
and educational institutions in the
state were also tentatively considered.
The hearings will continue until
early summer, and in the fall the com
mission, which is composed of twenty
five members, will meet to make ibi
report to be presented to the legisla
ture next January.
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