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30 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
Furnace man and watchman 14 4-10c
Outside labor, including slate dumpers... 13y3c
Blacksmith 23y4c
Pick sharpener 20c
Sec. 8. HOURS—Nine hours shall constitute a
day's work for all classes of labor for which a
scale of wages is made in this contract. A ninehour
day means nine hours' work in the mines at
the usual working place for all classes of day labor
and miners. This shall be exclusive of the time
required in reaching the working place and departing
from the same at night.
REGARDING DRIVERS—They shall take their mules
to and from the stable, and the time in so doing
shall not include any part of the day's work.
It is distinctly understood that the time of
starting each day depends on the arrival of railroad
cars, providing the run begins in two hours
from the regular starting time. Pay to begin
with work, and work to stop at the regular quitting
time.
Sec. 9. PAY-DAY—Payment of wages shall be
semi-monthly. The pay-day being on or before
the last day of each month for the work performed
during the first half of the month, and on or
before the 15th of the succeeding month for work
performed during the last half of the month; but
it is understood that statements shall be made
only once for each month. The semi-monthly pay
being the last in each month to be paid in even
dollars.
An employe desiring to leave the employment of
the company shall receive his money at once or
not later than five days after his notice is given.
Sec. 10. CUT—All employes whose wages are
regulated by this scale shall be cut for dues and
assessments through the office out of the first five
days' work performed in each month, the same to
be paid to the proper person or persons authorized
to receive the same. The dues and assessments
not to exceed $1 per month without the
special written order of each employe. Initiation
fees are hereby guaranteed to be uniform throughout
District 19, and that the payment of same shall
be pro rated through sixty days if necessary.
Sec. 11. TURN—A square turn shall be kept all
over the mine in rooms and narrow work under
ordinary conditions. Miners absenting themselves
from their working places for three consecutive
days without first obtaining the consent
of the superintendent or bank boss shall forfeit
their working places, except in cases of sickness
of themselves or any member of their family, and
except, also, representatives of the organization
engaged in work of organization, in which case
they must notify the superintendent or bank boss.
Work shall not stop at any mine on any day other
than on. general holidays, and on April 1 without
previous agreement with the management of such
mine.
Sec. 12. MASS MEETING—No mass meetings shall
be held during working hours on or off the company's
premises when the mine is running, and
any one calling such a meeting shall be subject
to discharge. No committee shall visit any employe
at his working place except with the bank
boss to settle a grievance or to secure information
concerning a grievance, after having explained to
the bank boss the nature of said grievance, in case
it will not be convenient for the bank boss to go
with them that day.
Sec. 13. COMMITTEES—No man shall be appointed
a member of any mine committee who has
not been employed at said mine for four months
or more, next preceding his appointment, except
in new mines that have not been in operation six
months or more. The duties of the mine committee
shall be confined to the adjustment of disputes
between the company and its employes working
in and around the mine, provided the company
and said employes have failed to agree.
Under no circumstances will the operators recognize
or treat with a mine committee or the representatives
of the U. M. W. of A. during a suspension
of work contrary to this agreement.
Sec. 14. NEITHER RACE, CREED NOR COLOR of any
man shall be a bar to his employment, either
above or below ground, at any mine in this district
which is a party to this agreement.
Sec. 15. ARBITRATION—If any differences arise
between the operator and the miner, or between
the operator and any of the employes of the mine,
a settlement shall be arrived at without stopping
work. If the parties immediately affected can
not reach an agreement between themselves the
question shall be referred without delay to the
local committee and the company's officials. If
they fail to effect a settlement it shall be referred
to the officials of District 19, U. M. W. of A., and
the officials of said company. If they fail to
adjust the grievance it shall be referred to a
board of arbitration, composed of one person from
each side, with power to select an umpire. Their
decisions shall be final and binding on all parties
to this agreement and those they represent. Arbitrators
shall be appointed within three days after
the case is submitted to arbitration and they shall
proceed within five days to hear and determine
the case. In the event the arbitrators be unable
to select an umpire within thirty days after their
appointment, each party to this agreement shall
have the right to proceed as though this section
had not been agreed to. The operator and his
superintendent and mine manager shall be respected
in the management of the mine and the
direction of the working force. All day men shall
perform whatever kind of day labor the manage-