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TEXT OF THE JOINT AGREEMENT BE<br />
TWEEN THE <strong>COAL</strong> OPERATORS AND<br />
MINE WORKERS OF TENNESSEE AND<br />
WESTERN KENTUCKY FIELDS.<br />
The following is the text of the joint agreement<br />
made at Knoxville, Tenn., on Aug. 4, by the<br />
coal operators and miners of the Nineteenth district:<br />
It is agreed in joint convention that we hereby<br />
renew the present scale of wages with the existing<br />
conditions for another year, ending August 31,<br />
1906.<br />
The operators and miners of District 19, United<br />
Mine Workers of America, represented in the joint<br />
convention at Knoxville, Tenn., hereby adopt as<br />
their agreement for the ensuing year ending<br />
August 31, 1906, the following:<br />
Section 1. MINING—Resolved, that the price<br />
for mining shall be as follows:<br />
First—That in the Coal Creek-Jellico district<br />
pick mined screened coal shall be paid for on the<br />
following bases:<br />
No. 1. Under 2% feet 89%c<br />
No. 2. 2% feet to 2 feet 9 inches 83%c<br />
No. 3. 2 feet 9 inches to 3% feet 77%c<br />
No. 4. 3 feet 6 inches and over 71 Vic<br />
The above per ton of 2,000 pounds in weigh-box.<br />
Run-of-mine shall be 50c per ton of 2,000 pounds.<br />
Second—That the price paid for mining at all<br />
other mines parties to this agreement shall be 7<br />
per cent, less than that paid under contract dated<br />
September 26. 1903, and amendments thereto paid,<br />
by said mines.<br />
Third—The price for machine mining shall be<br />
7 per cent, less than was paid under contract dated<br />
September 26, 1903, and amendments thereto.<br />
IMPURITIES—Any miner loading an unusual<br />
amount of dirt, slate, sulphur or other impurities<br />
with his coal shall be laid off one day for each<br />
offense. The company's representatives will on<br />
all such occasions show such unusual amount.<br />
Any miner laid off for three days during any one<br />
month shall then be subject to discharge; provided,<br />
however, that no dirt, slate, sulphur or<br />
other impurities shall be included in the measurements<br />
to determine the height of coal.<br />
Sec. 2. YARDAGE—The stanaard price of slate<br />
entries in the Jellico district shall be $2.30 per<br />
yard; but when both top and bottom are blasted,<br />
the price shall be $2.90 per yard; solid rock entries,<br />
$3.25; rock top and slate bottom, $3.70.<br />
Entries, airways and all narrow work in coal,<br />
when used for entries and airways shall be $1<br />
per yard. But when the slate parting occurs in<br />
the coal and neither top nor bottom is blasted, the<br />
price shall be $1.40 per yard in entries and airways<br />
when the slate is loaded out and does not<br />
exceed nine inches in thickness; over nine inches<br />
THE <strong>COAL</strong> TRADE BULLETIN. 29<br />
and up to eighteen inches in entries and rooms<br />
4 4-5 cents extra per ton shall be paid on the coal.<br />
ROOM TURNING— In high coal, $2.45; in medium<br />
coal. $2.75; in low coal, $3.05; for double rooms<br />
in all coal, $4.45.<br />
COAI. CREEK YARDAGE—Where neither slate nor<br />
dirt has to be shot over the coal the price shall be<br />
$1.10 per yard. Where the slate is eighteen<br />
inches or less the price shall be $1.65 per yard.<br />
Where a man works single in an entry the price<br />
shall be $1.55 per yard. Where the slate exceeds<br />
eighteen inches in thickness 3 cents per yard additional<br />
per inch shall be paid. At mines other<br />
than Coal Creek-Jellico district the same prices<br />
shall be paid during this contract as were paid<br />
under the contract dated September 26, 1903.<br />
There shall be no change in the machine yardage<br />
prices.<br />
Sec. 3. TIMBERING—Resolved, that present conditions<br />
continue at all mines.<br />
Sec. 4. TRACKS—Resolved, that in addition to<br />
the iron tracks now being used, the dip places<br />
where men have to push the cars shall be provided<br />
with iron rails.<br />
Sec. 5. CARS—Resolved, that all cars are to be<br />
handled the same as last year, but it is understood<br />
that this clause shall not be construed to<br />
have miners handle cars where it has been customary<br />
for the company to handle them heretofore.<br />
Sec. 6. RENTS, HOUSE FUEL, PICK SHARPENING<br />
at each mine shall remain without change during<br />
the life of this contract.<br />
DAY LAHOR—There shall be a uniform day wage<br />
scale as follows:<br />
Classification. Rate per hour.<br />
Inside driver, 1 mule 19c<br />
Inside driver, 2 mules 20 4-10c<br />
Inside driver. 3 mules 21 5-10c<br />
Inside driver, 4 mules 22 4-10c<br />
Head tracklayer 26 7-10c<br />
Assistant tracklayer 19c<br />
Trappers 6 : ;i c<br />
Timberman 24c<br />
Timberman helper 19c<br />
Inside pumper and water bailer 19c<br />
Outside pumper and water bailer 17 7-10c<br />
Muckers, or inside labor 17 7-10c<br />
Coupler man, inside 16%c<br />
Coupler man, outside 13%c<br />
Coupler boy, inside 8 7-10c<br />
Coupler boy, outside 6 7-10c<br />
Tiphouse man 17 7-10-<br />
Outside driver, 10c per day less than inside; boy<br />
driver under sixteen years of age, 35 cents per day<br />
less than regular prices.<br />
Drum man 20c<br />
Knuckle man 17 7-10c<br />
Knuckle boy 13V3C<br />
Fv.rnace man (digging his own coal).... 20c
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