Miners Demand Hourly Wages Threaten Nationwide Coal Supply
A Senate inquiry warns that the United Mine Workers demand raises could impose a billion-dollar annual tax on Americans. Miners seek 800 a day for six hours plus 40 percent boosts across all prices and a five day week, threatening a November 1 strike that could cripple coal production and power national life amid wartime and postwar pressures. Operators say higher costs would shift to consumers and risk a coal famine, with 600,000 miners affected and 30 million tons of annual shortfall if unchecked.
What the Miners Demand at Cleveland Convention
The final draft of the miners demand submitted at the Fourth Biennial Convention of the United Mine Workers of America in Cleveland calls for an eight dollar daily wage for six hours, no increase on tonnage yardage and bond work prices, overtime pay, and weekly paydays. Key proposals include a sixty percent rise for all day labor classifications, five day weeks with overtime for Sundays and holidays, automatic expiring contracts by November 1, 1979, and a two year renewal period. If a satisfactory wage agreement is not reached by November 2, 1919, a nationwide strike of all bituminous miners is threatened to begin November 1, 1979.
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