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GOAL TRADE BULLETIN.
Vol. XII. PITTSBURGH, PA., APRIL 15, 1905. No. 10.
THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN:
PUBLISHED TWICE A MONTH.
Copyrighted by THE COAL TRADE COMPANY, 1904
A. R. HAMILTON, Proprietor and Publisher,
H. J. STBAUB, Managing Editor.
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relating to coal or coal production are invited.
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THK COAL TRADK COMPANY.
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[Entered at the Post Office at Pittsburgh, Pa., as
Second Class Mail Matter.]
THE OPERATORS AND MINERS OF THE
CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA BITUMINOUS
DISTRICT RENEW THE 1904 WAGE SCALE
AGREEMENT.
The operators and miners of the Central Pennsylvania
bituminous district reached an agreement
at Altoona, on April 4, by the terms of
which the wage scale of 1904 was renewed entire.
The agreement was the result of a meeting of the
operators at Philadelphia on April 1, at which the
operators' committee was empowered to make
terms with the miners' scale committee, while
practically a unit in the opinion that it should
insist on the adoption of its final proposition, rejected
in the joint scale conference on March 29,
decided to grant the 1904 scale in preference to
bringing about a continuance of the general idleness
of the district inaugurated by the miners'
observance of the "eight-hour day" anniversary
on April 1. The miners' scale committee had previously
arranged to meet at Altoona on April 4.
It was met by the operators' committee and after
a short conference the following agreement was
formulated and signed:
It is hereby agreed, that*the present scale of
wages and conditions of employment be renewed
and continued for one year from April 1, 1905, to
March 31, 1906.
Miners' Committee:
WILLIAM CURRIE, Sec'y.
JOHN SULLIVAN,
GEORGE BASSETT,
W. S. DAVIDSON,
GEORGE SINCLAIR,
GEORGE MCMILLIN,
W. E. PATTERSON,
WILLIAM SLEE,
PATRICK GILDAY,
Pres't Dist. No. 2
EDWARD MCKAY,
National Organizer.
CHARLES KEENAN,
J. D. BATEMAN,
Operators' committee:
JAMES KERR, Chairman.
JAMES CORYELL,
LUCIUS W. ROBINSON,
R. A. SHILLINGFORD,
J. R. IRISH,
W. A. LATHROP,
ROBERT H. KAY,
FRED. G. BETTS,
C. B. MAXWELL,
GEO. E. SCOTT, Sec'y.
The agreements made in 1904 and in 1903, which
jointly form the new agreement, are as follows:
ALTOONA, PA., April 2, 1904.
It is hereby agreed, that the present scale be
renewed and continued for one year, from April
1, 1904, to March 31, 1905. with the following
changes, to-wit:
That the pick mining price shall be sixty-two
(62) cents per gross ton. That machine loading
shall be five-ninths (5-9) of the pick mining rate,
plus one-half (y2) cent per ton. That machine
cutting and scraping, whether by the day, ton or
board, shall be reduced six and six one-hundredths
(6.06) per cent. All other labor inside and outside
of the mines shall be reduced five and fiftyfive
one-hundredths (5.55) per cent, below present
wage scale, with the exception of blacksmiths and
carpenters receiving less than two dollars and
twenty-five cents per day, and other outside day
labor receiving less than one dollar and eightyfive
cents per day, who shall be reduced; and provided
further, that blacksmiths and carpenters
receiving more than two dollars and twenty-five
cents per day shall not be reduced below two dollars
and twenty-five cents per day in the application
of this reduction. All dead work to be
reduced six and six one-hundredths (6.06) per cent.