TABLE XXV. PER CAPITA DEBT, ASSESSED VALUATION OF PROPERTY, AND EXPENDITURES FOR MAINTENANCE-Continued. e Not including $2.36 in litigation. a Not including expenditures for street sprinkling, paid for by property owners. b Not including street-improvement bonds. d Including expenditures for garbage removal. e Not including expenditures for garbage removal included in street expenditures. f Not including $0.14, value of work performed by citizens in lieu of payment of poll tax in cash. g $2.29 expended by State and county. Not including $2.29 expended by State and county for schools. Including $1.68 street-improvement bonds, but not including $57.77 debt of old city placed in hands of trustee on reorganization of city. j$1.18 expended by State and county. * Not including $1.18 expended by State and county for schools. Not including $1.77 improvement bonds to be paid from improvement assessments. m Not including $0.60 expended by State and county, but including expenditures for libraries, art galleries, museums, etc. Not including expenditures for libraries, art galleries, museums, etc., included in expenditures for schools. Not including $0.60 expended by State and county for schools and expenditures for street sprinkling, paid for by property owners. Not including the bonded indebtedness of 22 special-improvement districts for which no repor s made to the city. 9 Not including expenditures for street cleaning included in expenditures for all other purposes. Including expenditures for street cleaning. 8 Including $3.09 local-improvement bonds against private property. t Including $6.24 special-assessment bonds and warrants against private property. u Not including $2 18, local-improvement bonds. Including $11.23. street and sewer improvement bonds, held against private property. Not including $4.54, trust and endowment funds, regarded as a liability by the city. a Including $18.97, franchises Including $2.30, improvement bonds secured by abutting property. TABLE XXV.-PER CAPITA DEBT, ASSESSED VALUATION OF PROPERTY, AND EXPENDITURES FOR MAINTENANCE-Concluded. a Not including $0.39 paid out of sinking fund. b Not including $0.39 paid out of sinking fund, but including $0.16 paid out of sinking fund which can not be traced to the various items of expenditure. c Including expenditures for libraries, art galleries, museums, etc. d Not including expenditures for libraries, art galleries, museums, etc., included in expenditures for schools. e Not including $10.85, railroad property. f Including $8.22, improvement bonds secured by abutting property. Not including expenditures for street sprinkling, paid for by property owners. hNot including $2.24 paid out of sinking fund. Not including $2.24 paid out of sinking fund and expenditures for street sprinkling paid for by property owners. Including expenditures for construction and other capital outlay for sewers; also expenditures for sewers and garbage removal. Not including expenditures for sewers and garbage removal included in street expenditures. Including expenditures for construction and other capital outlay for sewers. m Including debt of school district extending beyond city limits. a Including expenditures of school district extending beyond city limits. • Including unpaid warrants which can not be traced to the various items of expenditure. p Including $11.44, franchises. q For 4 months only. LABOR CONDITIONS IN CUBA. NEW LAW RELATING TO RAILROAD EMPLOYEES. In connection with the article on "Labor conditions in Cuba" in the last number of the Bulletin, that for July, 1902, on pages 752 and 753. mention was made of the railroad law promulgated in February, 192, and two sections of the law giving provisions which relate to railroad employees were quoted. This was the law in force at the time the article was prepared for the Bulletin by the author. On April 25, 1902, too late to come to the attention of Dr. Clark, a new order was promulgated by the military governor, General Wood, revoking that portion of the law entitled "Criminal Law Affecting Railroads,” which included the two sections referred to above as quoted, and in place thereof substituting provisions differing in many important particulars. The two sections of the present law which relate especially to employees of railroads are as follows: XI. Everyone is guilty of a crime and liable to prisión correccional in its minimum degree (imprisonment from six months, one day to two years and four months), who by any act willfully obstructs or interrupts, or causes to be obstructed or interrupted, the construction. maintenance or free use of any railway or any part thereof, or any matter or thing appertaining thereto or connected therewith. But nothing in this order shall limit the right of employees either individually or collectively to leave the service of the company except while in train service between stations as provided in article XVIII of this chapter. XVIII. All railroad employees whose labor is essential to the oper ation of railroads, who abandon their posts while on train service between stations, without notice and without giving sufficient time to have others substituted in their place and duties, shall be guilty of crime, punishable by arresto mayor (imprisonment of one month and one day to six months) and shall be liable for injuries occasioned by such act to the punishment prescribed in the Penal Code. 1056 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.] BITUMINOUS COAL MINING. Indianapolis Interstate Agreement for Scale Year Beginning April 1, 1902. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., February 8, 1902. In pursuance of the instructions from the joint convention, we hereby reaffirm last year's scale for the year beginning April 1, 1902, and ending April 1, 1903. In behalf of the United Mine Workers of America: Attest: W. B. Wilson, Secretary. P. Dolan. W. H. Haskins. William Wilson. W. D. Van Horn. W. R. Russell. John Mitchell. The following is a copy of the Indianapolis interstate agreement for the scale year ending April 1, 1901, which is reaffirmed above: It is hereby agreed: SECTION I. (a) That an advance of fourteen (14) cents per ton of two thousand (2,000) pounds for pick-mined screened coal shall take effect in western Pennsylvania thin vein, the Hocking, the basing district of Ohio, and the block-coal district of Indiana. (b) That the Danville district, the basing point of Illinois, shall be continued on an absolute run-of-mine basis, and that an advance of nine (9) cents per ton over present prices be paid in the district named. (c) That the bituminous-coal district of Indiana shall pay forty-nine (49) cents per ton for all mine-run coal loaded and shipped as such. All other coal mined in that district shall be passed over a regulation screen and be paid for at the rate of eighty (80) cents per ton of two thousand (2,000) pounds for screened lump. SEC. II. That the screen hereby adopted for the State of Ohio, western Pennsylvania, and the bituminous district of Indiana shall be uniform in size, six (6) feet wide by twelve (12) feet long, built of flat or Akron-shaped bar, of not less than five-eighths (§) of an inch surface, with one and one-fourth (14) inches between bars, free from obstruetions, and that such screens shall rest upon a sufficient number of bearings to hold the bars in proper position. SEC. III. That the block-coal district of Indiana may continue the use of the diamond-bar screen, the screen to be seventy-two (72) feet superficial area, of uniform size, one and one-quarter (1) inches between the bars, free from obstruction, and that such screens shall rest upon a sufficient number of bearings to hold the bars in proper position. SEC. IV. That the differential between the thick and thin vein pick mines of the Pittsburg district be referred to that district for settle ment. SEC. V. (a) That the price of machine mining in the bituminous district of Indiana shall be eighteen (18) cents per ton less than the pickmining rate for screened lump coal when punching machines are used, and twenty-one and one-half (214) cents per ton less than pick-mining rate when chain machines are used. When coal is paid for on run-of-mine basis the price shall be ten (10) cents per ton less than the pick-mining rate when punching machines are used, and twelve and one-half (124) cents per ton less than pick-mining rates when chain machines are used. (b) That the machine-mining rate in the Danville district, the bas ing point of Illinois, on both punching and chain machines, be thirtynine (39) cents per ton. SEC. VI. That the mining rate in the thin vein of the Pittsburg district, and the Hocking, the basing district of Ohio, for shooting, cutting, and loading, shall be advanced nine (9) cents per ton, and that the block-coal district of Indiana shall be advanced eleven and one-half (114) cents per ton. SEC. VII. That the mining rates in the central district of Pennsyl vania be referred to that district for adjustment. SEC. VIII. That the advance on inside day labor be twenty per cent (20%), based on the present Hocking Valley scale, with the exception of trappers, whose compensation shall be one dollar ($1.00) per day. SEC. IX. That all narrow dead work and room turning shall be paid a proportionate advance with the pick-mining rate. SEC. X. That internal differences in any of the States or districts. both as to prices or conditions, shall be referred to the States or di tricts affected for adjustment. SEC. XI. The above scale is based upon an eight (8) hour workday The foregoing scale, having been unanimously adopted by the Inter |