Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1925, Page 13

4 SOFT COAL MINERS FACING WAGE CUT Thousands Idle in Union Fields—High Scale Bars Sale of Product. n union wages in affccting ap- Substantial cu the soft coal industry, proximately 350,000 prob- able within the next two or three months as the result of preliminary moves made by both operators and officials. Both ported to be weary of idleness, while non-union coal is romping away with union markets, tylng up purchasers on long contracts and entrenching it- ways in sections served the union men, are union sides are re- self in other from time immemorial by produ Until a day or so ago, it had seemed that both parties to the pres- ent wage scale, which continued war- time wages until March 31, 1927, were about to enter preliminary sparring to a round-the-table con- ference over a wage cut. Union op- erators had planned to get together in Cleveland next Tuesday and frame a formal request to President Lewis of the min union to meet with them and discuss the proposal. Mr. Lewis spent some time in Washing- ton in a reputed quest for informa- tion as to how the Gov would look upon the calling of conference to frame a new sca Brought Coolidge. t is understood that the proposal was placed before President Coolidge. What the President said has not been authoritativ disclosed. The cur- | vent report .in the industry is that the President took the view that the Government should be requested by hoth parties to the present wage con- tract to call the pronosed conference Neither side has formally made such request, so far as can be learned. neither operators nor t to take the initlative. some reason not on the surface, Cleveland conference has been It was to have been at- union operators controling the output in western Pennsylvania Ohio, Indiana and Tlinois—the old central competitive field that has set the standard for union wages in_the coal fields the country over. ° The postponement is the second one. Several weeks ago a date was set for a gathering of the union operators, only to result in a post- ponement until March 17 Secretary Hoover, whose interest in keeping peace in the union coal fields led a year ago to his being termed, in some quarters of the in- dustry, as “the daddy of the Jack- sonville agreement,” is said to be in close touch with the new develop- ments looking to a wage reduction. The Jacksonville agreement is the existing one which continues the 1920 wage scale. Competitive Markets Lost. Under that wage scale union mines In competition with non-union coal have experienced and are still ex- periencing a prolonged period of dull- ness. In the non n fields of West Virginia central Pennsylvania. e the pact does not apply, & back the 1917 level or siderably below the union scale result, according to union operators, is that non-union coal is being pro- | duced a cost far below the cost| of mining union coal—so far below, in fact, that non-union coal is under- selling the union product in all com- petitive markets gical survey reports show that tors in the non-union fields are Before the postponed. tended by | institute improvements in the t The | Chief Justice McCoy of the District Supreme NDAY Court ad stering the oath of office to Col. K. Lexter Jones, recently reappointed by President Stntes NEW FEATURES DUE | TO U. S. ALIEN LAW Restriction of Immigration De- velops Improved Type of Liner for Third-Class Traffic. Correspondence of the Associated Press LIVERPOOL, February 23—The policy of the United States in re- stricting the inflow of emigrants under a quota system, coupled with high building costs, is likely to cause the development of a new branch of travel and the building of a new type of liner, according to Harold A Sanderson, chairman of the White Star Line, writing in that company’s magazine. Mr. Sanderson says an extensive third-class business has been a po- | tent factor in the development of fleets of the principal companies, cul- | minating in_super-liners of today with a standard of comfort for ail classes unequalled in any other trade in the world “But,” he continues on the emigration movement h reduced the volume of travel that coupled with high building and oper- | ating costs, the construction of fur- ther steamships of monster type in the near future is rendered prob- lematic. Steamship companies may be expected to restrict their building program to vessels of moderate and speed with a less ornate decora- | tion of public rooms, and, while| maintaining the present standard of comfort for first-class passengers, to eni- ‘the rstriction | s for second and third cla Special attention will be given to steamers of cabin aad third-class Ype. and the needs of third-class'pas- | sengers will be studiously and in-| creasingly considered in order to d elop a new branch of travel whic h‘ will oftset to some cxtent the re-| striction of emigrant traffi cing more coal this quarter than have ever mined before, while| sands of miners in nea 'y ‘] either are entirely out/ of work or are working but from one | to three days week. Thus is pre- tacle of union miners living from hand to outh, in s -idlene: while non-union miners, working for far lower wages, are putting money in the bank One of the largest coal companies the world, the Consolidation, re- ntly felt the pinch of nearby non- coal to such telling effect lhn!' | | 1 in it placed before its miners a pro- posal to accept 25 per cent reduction in wages so that the company could compete with non-union coal. After ote the employes accepted. 1t back to work a day or so ago | under the lower scale, but with the prospect of steadier work. This ex- periment was tried in the Somerset | field and may be extended to the com- | Winter in almost complete idleness. | | rast pany's other extensive union oper: tions elsewhere. Unfon Men Suffering. [ Union officials realize the serious- | ness of the situation. Tens of thou- | sands of their men have spent the it is reported that some of the ofll- cials would welcome the Government's calling & joint conference to frame a new and lower wage scale, but no union official has yet appeared who is willing to jeopardize his standing as a leader by recommending that such a conference be called The operators feel that they are | in & strategic position Some of them | feel that all they have to do is to| wait a little longer and the union| will be forced to ask for a conference While this is denied by union lead- s, there is no doubt that from the miners' standpoint the situation is approaching a desperate stage.| by Consolidated Press Asso- | Ciation.) (Copyright, 1 is yours-— run wild. It’s absolutely F R Imitation looks like a small bool like a cigarette case. This “Change Trap” And all you need do is to OPEN AN ACCOUNT in our Savings Department with $5.00 or more. 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