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30 THE <strong>COAL</strong> TRADE BULLETIN.<br />
man absenting himself from work one day without<br />
previously obtaining permission to do so from<br />
the superintendent or bank boss, or who has no<br />
valid or reasonable excuse for absenting himself<br />
without permission, shall forfeit his position or<br />
working place.<br />
Section 12. Any miner loading an unusual<br />
amount of slate, sulphur or other impurities shall<br />
be fined fifty cents for the first offense, seventyfive<br />
cents for the second offense, and shall be subject<br />
to discharge for the third offense in any one<br />
month. The weighmaster and checkweighman<br />
shall be the judges of such unusual amounts, and<br />
the fines, when collected, shall be paid to the district<br />
office, and in no case shall be remitted.<br />
Section 13. The checkweighman shall have a<br />
number to run his account, and shall be allowed<br />
to cut each miner for his own wages, and for all<br />
dues and assessments of the U. M. W. of A., provided<br />
that in the case of dues and assessments<br />
each employe shall give a written order authorizing<br />
the employer to make such cuts. The checkweighman<br />
must, not later than the third day of<br />
each month, turn into the company's office an<br />
account showing the amount of dues and assessments<br />
to be stopped from each man for the previous<br />
month, so that on the following pay day<br />
the company may remit the amount of dues and<br />
assessments as per said statement belonging to<br />
the district, to the district treasurer, and the<br />
amount belonging to the local, as per said statement<br />
to the local financial secretary. Similar cuts<br />
for day men shall be collected on the same conditions<br />
through the office. Men voluntarily leaving<br />
the employment of a company when owing that<br />
company shall not be entitled to their clearance<br />
cards until they have made an arrangement with<br />
the company for the future payment of their<br />
debts by giving them a sixty-day note for the<br />
amount of the debt with authority to notify the<br />
company for whom they are going to work that<br />
they desire their wages cut $4.00 per month until<br />
the note is paid in full, and the checkweighman<br />
or secretaries of local unions shall not issue<br />
clearance cards until they have ascertained from<br />
the company whether or not the man applying for<br />
a card is in debt, and until the aforesaid note has<br />
been given.<br />
Section 14. No mass meeting shall be held during<br />
working hours, on or off the company's premises,<br />
when the mine is running, and any one<br />
calling a meeting shall be subject to discharge.<br />
No committee shall visit any employe at his<br />
working place, except in company with the bank<br />
boss, to settle a grievance; and any employe caught<br />
out of his working place during working hours,<br />
except for satisfactory reasons, is liable to have<br />
his turn stopped, at the option of the bank boss.<br />
Section 15. All labor shall be paid for by the<br />
hour, or quarters of hours, and eight hours shall<br />
constitute a day's labor, so far as mine laborers<br />
and miners are concerned; but the eight hours<br />
shall not affect the engineers, firemen, pumpers,<br />
outside teamsters, night-watchmen, blacksmiths,<br />
special repair work, or such men as are now paid<br />
by the month.<br />
An eight-hour day means eight hours' work in<br />
the mines at usual worKing places for all classes<br />
of day labor and miners, and any miner late, without<br />
reasonable excuse, shall forfeit his turn for<br />
the day. This shall be exclusive of the time required<br />
in reaching working places and departing<br />
from same at night.<br />
Drivers shall take their mules to and from the<br />
stable, and the time in so doing shall not include<br />
any part of the day's work, their work beginning<br />
when they reach the change at which they receive<br />
the empty cars; but in no case shall a driver's<br />
time be docked while he is waiting for such cars<br />
at point named.<br />
It is distinctly understood that the time of<br />
starting the run each day depends on the arrival<br />
of railroad cars, and that the eight hours shall<br />
be counted from the time of starting, provided the<br />
run begins within two hours from the regular<br />
starting time.<br />
Miners and day men shall respond promptly to<br />
the starting time, and no shooting shall be done<br />
until nine hours after starting the run, or before<br />
the usual hour, without the permission of the<br />
bank boss, who shall furthermore direct how the<br />
shooting is to be done, and no man can be allowed<br />
to shoot out of turn, subject to the penalties of<br />
Section 18 as hereinafter provided.<br />
The following scale of wages shall be paid for<br />
inside work:<br />
Per day.<br />
Tracklayers $2.10<br />
Tracklayers' helpers 1.91<br />
Trappers 65<br />
Bottom cagers 1.91<br />
Drivers gathering with one mule 1.91<br />
Drivers gathering with two mules 2.08<br />
Drivers with more than two mules on entries 2.08<br />
Riders 1.91<br />
Water haulers 1.91<br />
Timbermen 2.10<br />
Pipemen 2.02<br />
All other inside day labor 1.91<br />
The minimum outside scale of wages for work<br />
about the mine shall be 1.52<br />
In the event of an operator electing, or having<br />
elected to pay for any class of labor a higher wage<br />
than the scale set forth in this agreement, he shall<br />
at any time have the right to reduce the same to<br />
the scale price; but it is distinctly understood<br />
that he is under no obligation to pay any wage<br />
other than fixed by this agreement.
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