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The color line shall not be a bar to employment
either above or below ground at any mine in this
district, which is a party to this agreement.
In emergencies and in the absence of any regular
employe, the right of the operator to employ
men not members of the U. M. W. of A., for outside
labor regulated by this agreement, shall not
be questioned; the men so employed as temporary
laborers shall not work for more than three days
at any one time, without becoming members of the
U. M. W. of A.
The initiation fee for admission to and qualification
for membership in this district of the U.
M. W. of A. shall not be in excess of $10.00 for
outside men. Said initiation fee may be paid in
instalments of $2.50 per pay day.
The local conditions existing at each mine in
respect to the rate of wages paid to men when
taken from one kind of employment to another
to fill temporary vacancies shall not be disturbed.
There shall be no boys employed as drivers, except
on straight track, and said drivers shall receive
25 cents per day less than the district scale.
Section 16. The price of blacksmithing at pick
mines shall be 1 34-100 cents per $1.00 earned by
each miner, and at machine mines blacksmithing
shall be 67-100 cents per $1.00 earned by each
miner.
Section 17. All employes affected by this agreement
shall be paid on the second Saturday of each
month for the labor performed during the latter
half of the preceding calendar month, and on the
fourth Saturday of each month for the labor performed
during the first half of the current month.
This second payment as provided above shall be
in the nature of a cash advance in even dollars.
Section 18. Employes are liable to be discharged
for:
(a) Disorderly conduct.
(b) Gambling and shooting on the company's
premises.
(c) Taking coal, tools, timber, etc., without
permission.
(d) Firing before the run stops without permission
of the bank boss.
(e) Committing a nuisance in entries, airways,
or necks of rooms.
Section 19. In the event of an instantaneous
death by accident in or around the mine, the
miners and underground employes shall have the
privilege of discontinuing work for the remainder
of that day, but work, at the option of the operator,
shall be resumed the day following and continue
thereafter. In case the operator decides
to operate the mine on the day of the funeral of
the deceased, individual employes may, at their
option, absent themselves from work for the purpose
of attending such funeral, but not otherwise.
And, in event the operator shall elect to operate
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the mine on the day of such funeral, then from
the proceeds of such day's operation, each person
employed at the mine at which the deceased member
was employed shall contribute fifty cents and
the operator $25.00 for the benefit of the family
of the deceased, or his legal representative, to be
collected through the office of the company. Except
in the case of fatal accidents as above, the
mine shall, in no case, be thrown idle because of
any death or funeral, but in the case of the death
of any emp.oye of the company or member of his
family, any individual miner may, at his option,
absent himself from work for the sake of attending
such funeral, but not otherwise.
Section 20. Married men shall at all times
form the majority of all committees.
Section 21. In all conferences, the employes of
each mine, or especially the mine affected, shall
be represented by not less than three employes of
such mine, and the voting power shall be vested
in such employes; but this does not preclude the
presence of any official of the labor organization.
Section 22. It is agreed that if any difference
arises between the operator and the miners at
any mine, a settlement shall be arrived at without
stopping work. If the parties immediately
affected cannot reach an agreement between themselves,
the question shall be referred, without delay,
to a board of arbitration consisting of two
members, one to be the commissioner, or a similarly
designated official, selected by the operators,
or his appointee, the other the president of district
No. 23, United Mine Workers of America, or
his appointee. In the event of these two being
unable to reach a decision, they shall select a
third member, and the decision of said board of
arbitration shall be final and binding on all parties
to this agreement and those they represent.
But under no circumstances shall work stop before
the decision of the board of arbitration is received,
and such stoppage of work, before the decision
of said board of arbitration is received,
shall be sufficient cause to discharge the mine
committee and the party or parties causing the
dispute unless the committee show they have used
due diligence to keep the men at work.
Section 23. The operator and his superintendent
and mine manager shall be respected in the
management of the mines and the direction of
the working force. All day men shall perform
whatever kind of day labor the management may
direct them to perform from time to time, and
at any time should a day man be absent from
work on the failure of the mine boss to secure the
necessary man or men, it shall then become the
duty of the bank committee to do all in their
power to provide the necessary man or men to do
the work. The right to hire must also include
the right to discharge, and it is not the purpose