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44 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
W. Dawson, H. S. Lingle, John L. Dickinson,
William Crichton, Jr., D. C. Kennedy, James Kay,
F. O. Harris, Michael Gallaher, E. A. Cole, D. T.
Evans, G. H. Powell, L. C. Tippett, Frank P.
Stewart. The scale committee of niiners is:
Robert Holden, representing the district from
Montgomery up the Chesapeake & Ohio; Fred
Mooney from Montgomery up the Kanawha &
Michigan; J. V. Bagley, Kelley's Creek; James
Scott, Paint Creek; Don Turner, Winifrede; XV.
F. Ray, Raymond City, and Walter Boomer,
Pomeroy, both for the Pomeroy Bend region;
James Flood, Campbells Creek; Thomas Cairnes,
Charleston; A. T. Clark, Elk River; Walter Deal,
East Bank, for Morris Creek; Amos Polley, Briar
Creek; B. Linville, Eskdale; G. Polley, Gauley;
J. L. Polley, Bell Creek; Morris Gunnoe, Peytonia.
The demands of the miners, presented after the
conference was organized, were:
Charleston, W. Va.. March 31, 1914.
To the Convention of Delegates, District No. 17,
U. M. W. of A., in Charleston assembled:
The following are the demands of the miners
of the Kanawha district of West Virginia, to
take effect from April 1, 1914, and continue for
one year, ending March 31, 1915:
1. A 10 per cent, increase on the present price
of pick mining and an advance on machine mining
that shall leave the differential as it is; a
10 per cent, increase on all inside day labor;
a 10 per cent, increase on all outside day labor,
and that all outside labor be made uniform.
2. Dead Work.—Base 1 inch thick, 3 feet deep
and 18 inches wide or less, all over 18 feet wide
to count for two measurements.
Scale for slate and impurities:
First 6 inches 5c per inch
6 to 12 inches Sc per inch
12 to 18 inches 10c per inch
18 to 14 inches 12c per inch
20 to 30 inches 15c per inch
Al slate of thickness above 30 inches to be
adjusted locally. This slate scale to apply to
all seams of coal covered by this contract.
3. In narrow work 5c per ton extra shall be
paid until width reaches 18 feet, and all over 18
feet shall be considered wide work.
4. That a change in the basing of all seams
be made where we can prove as established
wrong.
5. That company shall pay all track and that
all track material be hauled by company.
6. That the within demands are based on the
eight-hour day. This means that eight hours
shall constitute a day's work, and that this clause
shall replace Rule No. 10 of the Kanawha agreement,
1912. Drivers to receive time from time
of taking mules from stable to time of returning
them to stable.
7. A check-off through the company office for
all dues, assessments and initiations. This rule
to take the place of rule No. 2, Kanawha agreement,
1912.
S. That motormen, motormen's helpers and
wiremen are to receive the rate of wages made
for motormen. Motormen to receive pay from
time of receiving motor until returning same.
9. That all machine cutting be paid for on
tonnage basis, except where machine cutting is
paid for by the day. Machine men are to receive
same as motormen.
10. The system of docking now in force shall
be revised so as to read as follows: For the
first offense within one pay, a notice shall be
given; for the second offense a fine of 50 cents
shall be checked be given; for the second offense
a fine of $1 shall be checked off, and all
fines paid into the local treasury of the union.
11. That we reserve the right to hire and discharge
the physician, and permission given the
physician to have an office on company premises,
and that his pay be checked off through the office.
12. Men shall be hired according to their application.
This means that no man shall be hired
until the applicant who preceded him has received
work.
13. An equal turn for all extra work on idle
days, and that when miners are required to bail
water 25 cents per box be paid for same.
14. Three places in machine work for two
men.
15. That the price of powder be $1.50, and
that all powder be union made.
16. That when hard coal is separated from
soft coal, the price for loading hard coal shall
be the price paid for splint coal niining.
17. That all grievances left to local adjustment
be drawn up in writing.
18. That employes shall have right to trade
where they please, and no concern shall be used
to prevent any one from delivering goods to them
on company property.
19. That Raymond City seam be based on
Coalburg seam.
20. That companies deliver empties to face
of eoal and receive loads at face.
21. That Paint Creek mines now working
under agreement carrying less rate than the
Kanawha scale be placed on same basis as said
Kanawha agreement, and that Powelton seam
be based on No. 2 Gas.
22. That all contracts except those drawn up
by the mine workers and operators shall be
eliminated and lived up to only to the face of
those contracts.
23. That all other rules regulating local con-