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Mine Owners Split Over 10 Percent Wage Increase
In Scranton Pa on Oct 15 a survey shows coal operators oppose tying concessions to a contract while many expect the strike to end soon. The Reading line and Shamokin Mohnton groups resist abolition of the sliding scale and an April 1901 10 percent rise. Temple Iron's T H Watkins cites dispersed control among many firms and warns the United Mine Workers risk public backlash. The preamble favors a 10 percent raise until April 1 1901 and abolition of the sliding scale in Lehigh and Schuylkill regions with further talks to follow.
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Scanton
Wyoming Valley
Shamokin
Mount Carmel
Reading
United Mine Workers
T. H. Watkins
Temple Iron Company
Mitchell
Morgan
Lehigh and
Schuylkill
Lackawanna
Wyoming
United
Lehigh