AGREEMENTS BETWEEN EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYEES.

[It is the purpose of this Department to publish from time to time important agreements made between large bodies of employers and employees with regard to wages, hours of labor, etc. The Department would be pleased to receive copies of such agreements whenever made. ]

AGREEMENT BETWEEN HOCKING VALLEY BITUMINOUS COAL OPERATORS AND UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA.

DETAILED MINING SCALE FOR HOCKING VALLEY.

(SUBDISTRICT NO. 1 OF DISTRICT NO. 6.)

Effective during the scale year from April 1, 1900, to April 1, 1901; renewed and continued March 6, 1901, to be effective from April 1, 1901, to April 1, 1902; and by agreement entered into February 25–26, 1902, at Athens, Ohio, by and between the Ohio State officials of U. M. W. of A. and the operators of the said district by their duly authorized representatives, to be effective from April 1, 1902, to April 1, 1903.

Pick mining rate per ton of screened lump coal.

run of mine, lump price..

Entries-Dry entries, per yard

Break-throughs in entries

Break-throughs in rooms.
Room turning.

Timber men, per day

Track layers, per day .

Track layers' helpers, per day.

Pipe men, per day..

Trappers, per day

day labor, per day...........

Dumpers and trimmers, per day....

Cagers, drivers, machine haulers, water haulers, and all other inside

Couplers, greasers, slack haulers, firemen, engineers, carpenters, blacksmiths, cleaners, hostlers, and other outside day labor, special prices according to nature of work.

$0.80

.574

2.00

2.00

1.39

3.03

2.28

2.28

2.10

2.22

1.00

2.10

2.10

MACHINE.

Cutting, by Jeffrey styles of machine, in rooms, per ton..

RULES AND CONDITIONS GOVERNING THE HOCKING DISTRICT FROM APRIL 1, 1902, TO APRIL 1, 1903.

SECTION I.-Turns. There shall be no free turns allowed to either rooms or entries. The entries shall be driven as fast as operators desire or conditions permit, but in no case shall entry miners be allowed more cars per week than room miners, and at least once each week the turn shall be made uniform for the time previously worked. If, however, the regular turn will not allow cars enough to drive the entries as fast as desired, the operators shall increase the number of miners in each entry, so that, by giving to each the regular turn, the entries shall be driven as fast as two miners could do with full work. If, however, the room men decline to take their place in the entries when requested to do so by the operators, then the entry men shall have free turns until the entries are driven the required length; nothing in the foregoing to prevent fast turns.

SEC. II. Limit on mine cars. No limit of weight shall be placed on loading mine cars, and in case of loss in transit the company shall not be held responsible, except where cars are broken by employees or where a wreck occurs, the average weight shall be made good by the company. In order that miners can not take advantage of this clause, the mine manager and committee of any mine where complaint is made of loading cars over their capacity shall mutually agree on a standard height of loading cars.

SEC. III. Check off. The system of checking off for the United Mine Workers' organization remains in force and must be observed, same to be checked off by per cent of earnings. The above to include all dues and assessments for burial fund and United Mine Workers' organization.

SEC. IV. Clay veins. Where clay veins, roll in bottom, or horsebacks exist, the price for removing same shall be determined between loader, mine boss, and mine committee.

Where

SEC. V.-Bottoms, sprags, etc. All machines shall be fitted with front shoe not to exceed 2 inches in thickness, and the machine men be required to cut coal level and close to bottom; and in no case shall thickness of bottom exceed 4 inches, except in case of pots or other extreme variations; and all machine men leaving more bottom than above must lift the same or it shall be lifted at their expense. the mine boss or superintendent orders left a greater thickness than 4 inches the company shall take care of it, and where the bottom is sulphurous and unmarketable the miner may call the attention of the mine boss to it and endeavor to arrive at an agreement for its removal or retention. If the mine boss and miner fail to reach an agreement

as to compensation or otherwise, the matter shall be submitted to the superintendent and mine committee for adjustment. In case of sprags being left by a machine man, he shall be notified by loader, and if he refuse to remove the same, the loader shall remove same and be allowed 50 cents for so doing; the said 50 cents to be deducted from machine runner. And when any machine runner leaves six or more sprags in any one pay he shall be removed from machine and his services be disposed of as deemed best by the general superintendent.

SEC. VI.-Rooms. All rooms shall be 30 feet wide, with two tracks in each room where practicable. Where rooms have to be cut 24 feet wide or under to 18 feet, same shall be paid 3 cents per ton extra. Not to affect pillars or entries. Each two men shall be given two

rooms where practicable.

SEC. VII.

Blacksmithing. Machine loaders are not to be charged

for blacksmithing.

SEC. VIII.-Pick mine necks. In opening rooms in pick mines where narrow work exceeds 18 feet before widening room, all in excess of 18 feet shall be paid for at entry price.

SEC. IX. Wet places. Where the mine boss and miner fail to agree as to whether the working place is wet and entitled to extra pay, it shall be referred to the committee and mine boss or superintendent, and if adjudged wet, 3 cents per ton additional shall be paid.

SEC. X.-Mine idle on account of idle men. If four men are out of cutting or drilling at work time in the morning, and upon investigation by mine boss and committee it is found to be the fault of the company, the mine shall be laid idle the next day, at the discretion of the committee.

SEC. XI. Slate. The company shall remove the slate from the working places of the miner; and if the company fails, after being notified, the miner shall be employed to remove such slate and be paid therefor at the price agreed upon between the mine boss and miner, based on the price of inside day labor.

SEC. XII.-Double shift entries. Twenty-five cents per yard shall be paid for driving double shift entries and break-throughs between entries.

SEC. XIII.-Stops. No stoppage shall take place at any mine on account of any grievance, except for violation of agreements or refusal of employers to pay on regular pay day without an explanation, until the matter has been presented to the mine boss and superintendent and an opportunity for adjustment permitted, and, failing to adjust, then the matter be referred to the officials and operators.

SEC. XIV. Clean coal. No dock shall be taken for less than 100 pounds of dirt unless it is apparent that dirty coal has been loaded intentionally; then 300 pounds of good coal shall be taken for 100 pounds or less. For from 150 to 250 pounds of dirty coal, 700 pounds of good coal shall be taken. For 250 or more pounds of dirty coal, 1,000 pounds of good coal shall be taken. For the third dirty car of coal in the same day from the same working place, 1,500 pounds of good coal shall be taken, and if the man or men are found to have an average place by bank boss and committee, he or they shall be laid off for one day or more, at the discretion of the mine boss and committee. All good coal docked to be placed in the burial fund. Weigh offices to be so arranged that checkweighman can see chutes and railroad

car.

SEC. XV.-Lost coal. If the company insist on the machine men cutting places, then the company shall pay for all coal lost by places falling in.

SEC. XVI.-Break-throughs between rooms. That all break-throughs between rooms be paid entry price for all coal over three cuts by a 6-foot machine.

SEC. XVII.-Members' sons. All things being equal, sons of members of the United Mine Workers of America, when becoming of proper age, shall be allowed the preference of going into the mine, same to be a part of this agreement.

For operators

J. M. Roan.

E. B. Pedlow.

D. E. Ritchie.
D. C. Thomas.
C. G. Newton.

Attest:

F. S. Brooks.

For miners

W. H. Haskins.
D. H. Sullivan.
Michael Collins.
Thomas Cairns.

Joseph Richards.

STATISTICS OF CITIES ERRATA.

In BULLETIN No. 42, the issue of September, 1902, in the article on the statistics of cities, the following corrections should be noted:

On page 981 the legal borrowing limit of Providence, R. I., is, by a typographical error, given as 30 per cent; the statement should be 3 per cent.

At the time the statistics for Cleveland, Ohio, were secured the manuscript of the annual report relating to the financial affairs of the city, from which it was necessary to take much of the data, was in the hands of the printer, and use of it could be made only while in that condition and piecemeal, a method especially unsatisfactory in the case of a complex financial statement. In this way a number of errors have been allowed to appear in the statistics for Cleveland, several of them of a considerable amount.

Page 990, actual income for fiscal year from trust funds, interest, and dividends should be $189,328 instead of $289,070.

Page 992, actual income for fiscal year from loans (long-term bonds, two years or over) should be $1,367,594 instead of $1,267,852.

Page 1002, expenditures on account of construction and other capital outlay for police department should be $65,093 instead of $65,083.

Page 1004, total expenditures on account of construction and other capital outlay, exclusive of loans repaid, $3,939, 137, should have note as follows: "Probably includes $160,200 paid by sinking fund commissioners into city treasury." Total expenditures on account of construction and other capital outlay, including loans repaid, should be $4,828,951 instead of $4,828,941. Page 1015, expenditures for maintenance and operation of sewers should be $50,134 instead of $49,134; expenditures for maintenance and operation of street cleaning (and sprinkling) should be $209,364 instead of $62,263; other street expenditures for maintenance and operation should be $16,985 instead of $47,982.

Page 1016, expenditures for garbage removal should be $102,506 instead of $102,511. Page 1017, expenditures for maintenance and operation of cemeteries should be $29,098 instead of $29, 108; other expenditures for maintenance and operation should be $361,595 instead of $478,684.

Page 1052, per capita expenditures for street maintenance, except lighting, should be 58 cents instead of 28 cents; per capita expenditures for all other maintenance purposes should be $5.23 instead of $5.53.

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