■flits 1932 
 
 1920-1922 
 
 AGREEMENT 
 
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 Between the 
 
 Members of District No. 13 
 U. M. W. of A. 
 
 Parties of the First Part 
 And the 
 
 Members of the 
 
 Iowa Coal Operators* Ass’n. 
 
 Parties of the Second Part 
 
 APRIL 1, 1920 TO MARCH 31, 1922 
 
 RE n UDU ,r AN. A LI I A. lOWh 
 
DES MOINES AGREEMENT 
 
 This contract, made and entered into by and 
 between District No. 13, of the U. M. W. of A. 
 and each member thereof, party of the first part, 
 and the Iowa Coal Operators Association and 
 each member thereof, party of the s< ond part. 
 
 WITNESSETH: That it is understood and 
 
 agreed that all of the terms and provisions here- 
 in contained are for the exclusive joint use and 
 benefit of District No. 13 of the U. M. W. of A. 
 and each member thereof, and eacn and every 
 member of the Iowa Coal Operators Association, 
 and this agreement is entered into with the hope 
 and belief that the advance in wages will result 
 in the increased production of coal and that the 
 good relations existing between the members 
 of the two Associations will continue without 
 the interruption of local strikes called in viola- 
 tion of the Agreement which is not countem 
 anced by either Association. 
 
 It is agreed that said contract shall take ef- 
 fect April 1, 1920, and remain in effect until 
 March 31st, 1922. 
 
 Agreement Made by the Operators of Iowa and 
 
 the United Mine Workers of District No. 13, 
 Effective April 1, 1920, Until March 31, 
 1922, Both Inclusive. 
 
 The prices to be paid for pick mined coal in 
 the various sub-districts named below, of said 
 
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District 13, during the period commencing Ap- 
 ril 1, 1920, and ending March 31, 1922, shall be 
 as follows, per ton of two thousand pounds, 
 mine run or lump coal, as hereinafter provided 
 in the various sub-districts. 
 
 The mines in Sub-District No. 1, will operate 
 on a screened coal or handpicked basis at the 
 option of the operator, except the mines in Mis- 
 souri under our jurisdiction which shall he on 
 an absolute mine run basis except where oth- 
 erwise agreed to, and the screens shall 
 be flat bars of not less than five-eighths (5-8) 
 of an inch surface, and not to exceed one and 
 one-quarter (1%) inches between the bars, anu 
 not to exceed seventy-two (72) square feet or 
 superficial area, free from obstruction, and the 
 bars of each screen shall rest upon a sufficient 
 number of bearings to hold the bars in proper 
 position. No screens provided for in this agree- 
 ment shall be more than twelve (12) feet in 
 length, excepjt those now in use, nor have any- 
 thing on or near them which will impede the 
 progress of the coal over the screen and all 
 screens shall have a sufficient pitch to clear 
 themselves of all coal under ordinary conditions. 
 
 In the mines of Putnam county, Missouri, the 
 miner must load his coal as free from impuri- 
 ties as is practicable. He shall at all times re- 
 move his mining dirt before taking his fall of 
 coal down, and when cutting a corner, he must 
 cut the same in such a workmanlike manner as 
 will permit the separating and removal of the 
 clay band, and gob the same. Should any min- 
 er violate any of the provisions of this clause, 
 
 Sub-District No. One. 
 
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he shall be fined 50 cents for the first offense, 
 $1.00 for the second, and for the third within 
 thirty days from the time of the first offense, 
 he shall be subject to discharge or a fine of 
 $2.00 at the option of the operator. 
 
 Mine Run Coal, Putnam County, Mo. $1.55 
 
 Hand Picked Coal, per ton 1.7444 
 
 Screened Lump Coal, per ton 1.7444 
 
 Eight-Foot Entry, per yard 2.78 
 
 Twelve-Foot Entry, per yard 2.15 
 
 Fourteen-Foot Entry, per yard 2.09 
 
 Room Turning, 12 to 14 foot doorway 3.60 
 
 Double shifting entries, 25 cents per yard ex- 
 
 tra. This is construed to mean where entry 
 men are employed two separate shifts of eight 
 hours each in twenty-four hours. 
 
 Room Turning'. 
 
 Where the neck is required to be cut a greater 
 depth than 9 feet on either side, the entry yard- 
 age price shall apply. 
 
 Turning Rooms Off of Skip Entries and Laying 
 of Switches. 
 
 It is agreed the company shall furnish extra 
 cars on demand when needed, by the miners, 
 driving skip entries, for the purpose of handling 
 their dirt, and such cars will not be counted on 
 the coal turn. It is also understood the above 
 shall not apply when the miner has reasonable 
 space in his place to gob his dirt. And switch 
 must be laid by the company not later than the 
 day following after pit boss has been notified 
 that branch is ready, and on failure to comply 
 
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with the above provision, said miner will have 
 just cause for complaint, and be entitled to com- 
 pensation for such loss. 
 
 It is understood that the miner is not entitled 
 to compensation for the day he demands the 
 switch, nor on the day the switch is laid. The 
 miner has no claim for compensation for inter- 
 vening time, unless he applies to the foreman 
 for work, and is refused. 
 
 Scale for Long Wall Chain Mining Machines In 
 Sub-District No. 1. 
 
 Duties of Machine Crew. 
 
 a. The machine crew shall mine in the clay 
 as near the coal as practicable to clear the 
 dutchman, remove the dirt cut by the machine 
 from under the coal and gob same and leave not 
 less than 2% feet of space between gob and 
 face of coal, provided that if there is not enough 
 space to hold dirt cut by the machine as stated 
 above then company will furnish cars at first 
 switch and if cars are not furnished as agreed, 
 machine crew shall throw machine dirt in road- 
 way to be removed at the expense of company. 
 
 They v/ill also clean up, prop, and sprag the 
 places ready for the loaders. 
 
 b. They shall make connection of machine 
 wire to main wire on entry, and remove and re- 
 place all picks used for undercutting the coal, 
 deliver dull picks to blacksmith shop on mine 
 premises and receive sharpened ones once each 
 day if necessary, the machine crew shall exer- 
 cise reasonable caution in the care of tools. 
 
 c. Should the machine require the attention of 
 the machinist, the machine crew shall notify the 
 
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mine- foreman, and if the machinist should re- 
 quire a helper to repair said machines, then one 
 or more of the machine crew shall assist him 
 at the rate of $6.00 per day. 
 
 d. Should the machine crew fail or neglect to 
 perform any of the duties, cares, or responsibili- 
 ties set forth in Paragraph ‘a’ the mine foreman 
 shall be notified by the aggrieved party who shall 
 make such arrangements with the loader so as 
 to cause him no loss of time and if they agree 
 as to the time required in cleaning up the place 
 the loader shall receive $1.25 per hour and the 
 amount agreed upon shall be deducted from the 
 machine crew’s account and paid to the party 
 doing such work. Provided further that if they 
 fail to agree either party may call on the mine 
 president or the loader be given another place, 
 
 e. They are to remove and load all bump coal 
 and check same to their credit. If the machine 
 cuts up to the coal at any time, the machine 
 crew can load out the coal, clean up the place 
 same as a loadep, and check the coal to their 
 credit to be equally divided between runner, 
 shoveller, and helper. 
 
 f. When any extra cutting is to be done the 
 machine crew shall be given the preference over 
 any one else. 
 
 Duties of the Loader. 
 
 a. The loader shall have the same care and 
 responsibility of the place as a pick miner. It 
 a loader fails to clean up and make his place 
 ready for the machine crew, or prop his place 
 within three feet of the face, or neglects to prop 
 as directed by the mine foreman, or to build his 
 
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roadwall within three feet or gob within foui 
 feet of the working face, provided he has the 
 material to gob with, and a fall occurs through 
 such carelessness, he shall immediately clear his 
 place of such fall, and refusing or failing to do 
 so, the company may do such work and charge 
 the expense thereof to the loader’s account. 
 
 b. In any mine where the company does the 
 brushing, the loader shall deliver his coal and 
 receive his empty car at the switch. 
 
 Working Rules. 
 
 a. The places shall be taken on the rule of 
 “first out, first in.” 
 
 b. Two men may work on one road undei 
 this agreement. 
 
 c. That general resolutions applying to Sub- 
 District No. 1 shall govern machine mines in 
 said District. 
 
 d. In all machine mines the company shall 
 lay the track. 
 
 e. The pit boss to furnish mule or pony and 
 driver to move machine when necessary. 
 
 f. That all roads shall be kept high enough 
 to permit the loading of the top coal less the 
 fiag coal, provided that no operator be compel- 
 led to brush in the cap rock, or rebrush a road- 
 way when it has less than twenty feet to go, 
 Rebrushing as used in this resolution is defin- 
 ed to mean brushing in the cap rock. 
 
 g. In the case of any deficiency arising in the 
 place where the loader and pit boss cannot agree 
 
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as to the price to be paid for same, the matter 
 shall be taken up at once by the pit boss ana 
 mine president and their decision shall be final. 
 Should they fail to agree on a price for same by 
 the ton, lump sum or day wage, the place can be 
 loaded out by the day men, machine crew or th» 
 pit boss can make an agreement with any other 
 loader by the ton, lump sum, or day wage, and 
 the loader to be given the first vacant place. 
 
 h. When a loader, through no fault of the 
 company, is absent from his working place which 
 he has started to load out, the mine foreman 
 may direct a loader, under rule of “first out, 
 first in” to load out and clean up such unfinish- 
 ed place, and such loader must take such place. 
 Should he demand any extra payment for loading 
 out and cleaning up such place, the mine fore- 
 man and the mine president shall deter- 
 mine the amount thereof, and the company 
 shall deduct such amount, if any, from sucn 
 loader’s account and pay same to the party doing 
 the work, and their decision shall be final. In 
 case of accident causing injury to the loader, the 
 deduction specified above, if any, shall not be 
 made; nor in case where proper notice is not 
 given within one-half hour after quitting time 
 that there will be work. 
 
 i. Should a loader take a boy in with him, 
 they shall be considered as one loader. 
 
 j. When a fall occurs on the roadway outward 
 from the end of the roadwall, while the loader is 
 at work in said room, exceeding one car load, the 
 pit boss upon being notified, shall see that such 
 fall is removed as soon as possible, or the loader 
 shall remove same at 19 cents per car, and he 
 shall be given extra cars to load out such fall. 
 
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The word “Possible” is defined to mean that the 
 loader shall not lose any time on account of such 
 fall. When a loader is assigned to a room, if theri 
 is a fall on the roadway at that time, the com- 
 pany shall remove the same upon being notified 
 or the loader shall remove same at 19 cents per 
 car. 
 
 k. When a machine is about to overtake un- 
 loaded coal in a room, the mine foreman may 
 call upon another loader to help load out this 
 coal, and six cents per ton extra shall be paid 
 for each ton of coal loaded out of such place 
 after the second loader enters same. It is un- 
 derstood that if the place carries a deficiency 
 settled with the first loader, the second loader 
 will also receive the same deficiency price. In 
 connection with this rule it is understood that 
 machine work in longwall mines is single work, 
 except in the emergency above provided. The 
 second loader who enters the place shall be first 
 out. 
 
 l. The machine may run double shift or it may 
 run one shift each twenty-four hours, whether it 
 is during the time the mine is running coal or 
 not, provided one machine crew does not run a 
 machine to exceed 48 hours per week when a 
 mine runs every day, or as many hours as the 
 mine runs coal and the machine crew may work 
 overtime repairing their machines. 
 
 m. Fourteen loaders shall follow a single shift 
 machine. If fourteen loaders are not enough to 
 keep a machine in cutting, this number may be 
 increased by one man at a time, provided the men 
 are given a fair turn. If fourteen men are too 
 many, the loading force shall be reduced in 
 like manner. 
 
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If after six days’ operation of the machine, 
 the record shows that the loaders after it have 
 not had an average turn amounting to nine cars 
 for each day’s operation of the machine then it 
 shall be considered that a fair turn has not been 
 given, provided the loader or loaders raising the 
 question of turn can show that he could have 
 loaded more cars, with coal, than he received. 
 
 n. Longwall chain machine shall be placed on 
 a differential basis of twenty-five cents per ton. 
 
 o. Prices to be paid for 
 
 Machine runners, per ton $ .13389 
 
 Machine Shovelers, per ton .13389 
 
 Machine Helpers, per ton .10562 
 
 Loaders, per ton 1.121 
 
 Prices Governing Underground Pay Labor. 
 
 That any company man, not a regular track 
 layer, working at laying iron track or switches 
 will receive $6.00 per day for the time so em- 
 ployed. 
 
 Head Track Layers, per day : $6.00 
 
 Pipe Men, per day 5.92 
 
 Drivers and Trip Riders, per day 5.80 
 
 Motormen, per day i; 6.15 
 
 Cagers, per day 5.86 
 
 Eoy Couplers, per day __ : 3.89 
 
 Oilers and' Trappers, per day 3.18 
 
 Pushers and all other inside adult labor, 
 
 per day 5.75 
 
 Boy drivers may be used between partings but 
 when used at regular switching they shall be 
 considered as men and receive men’s wages. 
 
 Rules Governing Underground Labor. 
 
 That in accordance with the state law the com 
 pany shall furnish all the necessary timbers and 
 
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the miner shall keep his room securely propped. 
 If the miner working in the room fails to secure- 
 ly prop the same, or neglects to prop as directed 
 by the pit foreman or to build his roadwall within 
 three feet, or gob within four feet of the work- 
 ing face, provided he has material to gob with, 
 and a fall occurs through such carelessness he 
 shall immediately clear his place of such fall, 
 and if he refuses or fails to do so, the company 
 may do such work and charge the expense 
 thereof to such miner. 
 
 In any mine where the company does the 
 brushing the miner shall deliver his coal and 
 receive his empty car at his switch; it is also 
 further agreed that two men may work on one 
 road under this agreement. It is further agreed 
 that the miner shall be responsible for his work- 
 ing face up to the cap rock, except falls caused 
 by slips or on account of mines being idle, ana 
 falls caused by first break in circle work, and 
 in front of the roadway outward to the inside 
 corner of his last road wall, and when a fall 
 occurs on the roadway from the end of the road- 
 wall, exceeding one car load, the pit boss shali, 
 upon being notified, see that such fall is remov- 
 ed, as soon as possible, or the miner shall re- 
 move the same at 19 cents per car, and he shall 
 be given extra cars to load out such fall. The 
 word “possible” is defined to mean that the 
 miner affected shall not be required to lose any 
 time on account of such fall. 
 
 All roads shall be kept high enough to permit 
 the loading of the top coal less the flag coal, 
 provided that no operator be compelled to brush 
 in the cap rock or rebrush a roadway when it 
 has less than 20 feet to go. Rebrushing as us- 
 
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ed in this resolution is defined to mean brush- 
 ing in the cap rock. 
 
 Blacksmithing. 
 
 The company shall do the sharpening, which 
 means only the sharpening of picks and wedges, 
 and the price of same shall not exceed three- 
 fourths of 1 per cent of the gross earnings in 
 pick mining, and shall not exceed one-half of 
 1 per cent of the gross earnings in machine 
 mining, and miner’s tools shall 'be giv- 
 en preference over all other work done by 
 the blacksmith, and be sharpened in a workman- 
 like manner. 
 
 There shall be a suitable place provided for 
 the miners to deliver and receive their tools. At 
 shaft mines, in accordance with the state law, 
 the company shall hoist the tools and return the 
 same to the bottom. 
 
 The company shall exercise reasonable pre- 
 cautions ir. the care of tools. 
 
 Top Labor. 
 
 The wages of dumpers, chunkers, screening car 
 men, box car men, outside drivers for outside 
 work only, mine teamsters and all other com- 
 mon top labor shall be $5.23 per day, provided 
 those now receiving a higher rate of wages shall 
 not be reduced. 
 
 Motormen, per day $5.63 
 
 Spraggers, and Couplers, per day 3.81) 
 
 Boy Slate Pickers and Oilers, per day 3.18 
 
 Corner Cutting. 
 
 Corner cutting on longwall shall be $1.00 per 
 yard; and corner cutting in semi-longwall shall 
 
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be $1.00 per yard for all permanent corners. 
 
 | Wliat is considered a permanent corner is a cor- 
 ner next to the main entry, and the corner next 
 to head of cross entry. Should a room at any 
 time be more than 7 feet ahead of the inside 
 
 I room, the miner shall be given a place to work 
 until the inside room is caught up. 
 
 Iron Track. 
 
 There shall be iron track and switches in all 
 mines in Sub-District No. 1, and where the miner 
 lays the track the company shall furnish flat or 
 sawed ties. Joint ties shall be flat on both sides, 
 the side where rails are joined shall have suf- 
 ficient flat surface to properly connect the rails. 
 Center ties shall have at least one flat side. The 
 company shall also furnish one pair of short 
 rails, length not to exceed ten feet long, for tern- 
 • porary use. • 
 
 In all room and pillar mines the company will 
 drill or punch the rails and furnish suitable 
 spikes. 
 
 In room and pillar work the miner is to de- 
 liver his loaded car and receive his empty car 
 as heretofore. 
 
 The depth of rooms in room and pillar work 
 shall not be more than 150 feet; in long wall work 
 not more than 125 feet, except by mutual con- 
 sent but a miner cannot be compelled to drive a 
 place more than 125 feet. In the event that such 
 work is done by mutual consent, the miner shall 
 receive 16 cents per ton extra for the first twenty 
 feet and 23 cents per ton extra over 145 feet, and 
 in room and pillar this rule and price shall ap- 
 ply when driven more than 150 feet. 
 
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Brushing. 
 
 The minimum price for brushing 8-foot entries 
 shall be 85 cents per yard and width of bottom 
 brushing in longwall entries shall be 5 feet. 
 
 Crib Building. 
 
 The price for building cribs from clay to slate 
 shall be $1.00 each, the company to have the op- 
 tion of doing same, but where built by the com- 
 pany the miners shall not be delayed in their 
 work. 
 
 Black Bats. 
 
 Black bats over three inches thick shall be con- 
 sidered as deficient work and paid for according 
 to Resolution No. 10. 
 
 Pay Days. 
 
 Pay days during the six summer months of the 
 year shall be considered holidays, and for the six 
 winter months of the year the mines shall oper- 
 ate full eight hours. Holidays, it is understood, 
 are to begin the first pay day in March, and the 
 company to start paying not later than 1:30 p. m. 
 and continue until 4:00 p. m., this not to deprive 
 men who may be working at the mine on pay day 
 from getting their pay that day. 
 
 SUB-DISTRICT NO. TWO. 
 
 All mines in Sub-District No. 2 shall operate 
 on an absolute mine run basis. 
 
 Mine Run Coal, per ton $1.21 
 
 Entry Prices. 
 
 Eight-Foot Entry, per yard $3.98 
 
 Twelve-Foot Entry, per yard 2.72 
 
 The yardage prices provided above are made on 
 the condition that the entry men must cut all 
 
normal entries, top and bottom, before they are 
 shot. This shall not prevent the firing of practi- 
 cal lifting shots. 
 
 Agreements on the price of deficient eight-foot 
 entry work: 
 
 Entry, 3 y 2 to 4 ft. vein, deficient by hav- 
 ing rock or other impurities, price includ- 
 ing coal, per yard $ 8.52 
 
 Entry, 3 y 2 to 4 ft. vein, deficient by hav- 
 ing rock or other impurities, not suffici- 
 ent coal to cut, price including coal, per 
 yard 9.40 
 
 Entry, 4 to 5 ft. vein, deficient by having 
 rock or other impurities, price including 
 coal, per yard 9.42 
 
 Entry, 4 to 5 ft. vein, deficient by having 
 rock or other impurities, not sufficient 
 coal to cut, price including' coal, per yard 10.31 
 Entry, 5 to 6y 2 ft. vein, deficient hy hav- 
 ing rock or otlieiy impurities, price includ- 
 
 ing coal, per yard 10.21 
 
 Entry, 5 to 6% ft. vein, deficient by hav- 
 ing rock or other impurities, not suffici- 
 ent coal to cut, price including coal per 
 
 yard 11.10 
 
 Entry, 6 y 2 to 8 ft. vein, deficient by hav- 
 ing rock or other impurities, price includ- 
 ing coal, per yard 11.68 
 
 Entry, 6 y 2 to 8 ft. vein, deficient by hav- 
 ing rock or other impurities, not suffici- 
 ent coal to cut, price including coal, per 
 yard 12.16 
 
 Note: The aboye prices shall be in full pay- 
 
 ment, both for the yardage and the mining. 
 
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Where the vein is under three and one-half feet 
 or over eight feet in thickness, or where jump- 
 ers have to be used, entries shall be worked by 
 the day, or at such price per yard as may be 
 agreed upon between the entry men and the pit 
 boss. 
 
 If by the day, the wages shall be $6.15 per day, 
 the company to furnish tools and supplies. 
 
 In deficient entries entrymen to load out rock 
 or other impurities. 
 
 It is understood that the intent of this agree- 
 ment is that the entrymen shall do the cutting 
 in the same manner as he would if paid no de- 
 ficiency, to wit: when cutting in the bottom, to 
 
 extend the cut upwards until an actual obstruc- 
 tion is encountered, and if the same is such that 
 it can be readily broken with the sledge, the 
 same shall be done and the cut carried to the 
 top of the vein. 
 
 JMo top shots to be used except to break down 
 the coal that lies above an actual obstruction. If 
 the obstruction be near the bottom and the cut- 
 ting is done in top coal, the same rule to apply 
 to bottom coal as above stated for top coal. 
 
 Whenever any entry that is now deficient be- 
 comes normal by the disappearance of bands of 
 impurities or other obstructions which prevent 
 cutting, the entrymen must square up and pro- 
 ceed to work it as a normal entry. 
 
 The occurrence of a sulphur ball or lump of 
 other impurities which does not extend to a 
 greater width than the cut, and which can be 
 readily broken out, or a thin band of impurity 
 
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which can be readily broken, will not be con, 
 sidered as preventing the cutting the full height 
 of the vein. 
 
 At any mine in lieu of the above scale for de- 
 ficient entries, such work may be paid for $5.26 
 per yard and the coal. The miner to load out 
 the impurities. 
 
 The adoption of the above deficient entry scale 
 does not prevent individuals from doing this class 
 of work with such allowance above the normal 
 scale as may be agreed upon between the men 
 concerned and the mine foreman. In case they 
 disagree the gross yardage scale for deficient en- 
 tries shall apply. 
 
 Rock in Rooms. 
 
 Whenever a miner has rock shot down in his 
 room that is in his way and which prevents him 
 loading his coal, the company shall remove the 
 large rock or pay the miner for doing the same 
 at the rate of 75 cents per hour. Resolution No. 
 4, Section C, to govern as to notification of fore- 
 man and time of waiting. 
 
 But, in the event the rock is mixed .with the 
 miner’s coal, the miner shall separate the same 
 and throw all small rock into the gob. 
 
 Room Turning. 
 
 Room turning with neck 8 feet wide not to ex- 
 ceed 9 feet deep, $8.11. Rooms shall be consid- 
 ered turned when they are 18 feet deep and 18 
 feet wide at the face. 
 
 Where neck is required to be cut more than 3 
 feet on one side, $3.60 additional shall be paid. 
 
 The company cannot require the miner to turn 
 
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the rooms for the pick mining room turning price 
 and then mine the rooms with machines aftei 
 machines have once been installed in the mine. 
 
 Double Shifting. 
 
 Double shifting in entries, 25 cents per yard 
 extra. 
 
 Break-Throughs. 
 
 Break-throughs between rooms and entries 
 shall be made in accordance with the state law 
 as to distance, and in rooms where break-thoughs 
 are required to be cut at entry widths they 
 shall be paid at entry prices. 
 
 Brushing — Width of Rooms — Unloading Slate. 
 
 Brushing by taking up bottom or taking down 
 top shall be 9 1-5 cents per inch, measured from 
 the top or bottom of the vein as the case may 
 be, and of sufficient width for roadway not to 
 exceed 5 feet. This to apply to top and bottom 
 of ordinary slate or clay material, but if of an 
 unusually hard material, then the price to be 
 agreed upon locally, and failing to agree, the 
 company to do the brushing, in which case the 
 said brushing shall be kept up to within 15 
 feet of the face. The minimum width of any 
 room shall be 20 feet. Loading or unloading 
 slate done by the miner, 28 cents per car, provid- 
 ed if there is any change in the capacity of the 
 car there can be a readjustment of the price but 
 there shall be, no change in existing local agree- 
 ments on the subject. 
 
 Blacksmitliing. 
 
 The company shall do the sharpening, which 
 shall mean only the sharpening of picks, augers, 
 and wedges, the buttoning of scrapers and cut- 
 ting off of augers, and the price of the same 
 
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shall be 3-4 of one per cent of gross earnings, 
 and the miners’ tools shall be given preference 
 over all other work done by the blacksmith, ana 
 be sharpened in a workmanlike manner. 
 
 It is further agreed that the operator will fur- 
 nish a suitable place or places for the miners to 
 receive their tools, and in first class mines, 
 where it can be shown that it is necessary for 
 the proper regulation of the tool question, to 
 have them separated or handed out, the operat- 
 or will furnish some one to do the work, and 
 the question of wages and duties shall be left to 
 the operator. 
 
 Day Wage Scale. 
 
 Track layers, timbermen, cagers, per day $6.00 
 
 Drivers, Trip Riders and Water haulers per 
 
 day „ 6.00 
 
 Track Layers and Timbermen helpers ,per 
 
 day 5.75 
 
 Boy Couplers, per day 3.89 
 
 Trappers, per day 3.18 
 
 Motormen, per day 6.15 
 
 Oilers, per day 1 3.77 
 
 Spike Team Drivers, per day, when engaged 
 
 in regular switching 6.15 
 
 Drillers, and Shooters, per day 6.00 
 
 All Other inside adult labor, per day 5.75 
 
 Stable men to receive $1.00 per day increase 
 
 over wages for month of October, 1919. 
 
 Boy drivers may be used between partings, but 
 when used at regular switching they shall be 
 considered as men and receive men’s wages. 
 
 Electric Mining Machine Scale for Sub-District 
 No. 2. 
 
 Loading, drilling, shooting and furnishing 
 of explosives, mine run coal, per ton .97 
 
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Machine Runner, per day $6.41 
 
 Machine Helper, per day 6.15 
 
 It is understood that the day wage fixed for 
 machine crew shall not prevent them from agree- 
 ing on a price per ton and yardage and room 
 turning; provided, the earnings be not less than 
 the above day wage scale. 
 
 Narrow Work. 
 
 Eight-Foot Entry, loaders, per yard $1,594 
 
 Twelve-Foot' t Entry, loaders, per yard 1.087 
 
 Room Necks, same measurements as pick 
 mining, loaders 3.244 
 
 Break-throughs between rooms and entries 
 shall be paid for at same rate as entries of equal 
 widths. 
 
 Loaders in narrow work and room turning to 
 have the option of accepting tonnage and yard- 
 age rates, or being paid at the rate of $6.15 per 
 day, this to include use of miners’ tools. The 
 company to have the right to select loaders for 
 this work who may be transferred at the com- 
 pany’s option to a normal place to load or mine 
 coal without loss of time. Blacksmitliing shall 
 be y 2 of 1% of the loaders’ gross earnings. 
 
 Duties of Macldne Crew. 
 
 The company shall furnish all parts and sup- 
 plies to keep machines in repair. The machine 
 crew shall perform the necessary labor for re- 
 pairs, not exceeding thirty minutes at any one 
 time, without extra compensation, all excess 
 time shall be paid for at the rate of 75 cents 
 per hour. Ttfe machine crew shall cut the coal 
 within four (4) inches of the bottom unless pre- 
 vented by physical conditions; if they fail to do 
 so and a loader is required to do extra work the 
 
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mine boss and mine president shall agree on the 
 amount due the loader for this work, and this 
 amount shall he deducted from the machine 
 crew’s earnings at the rate of 75 cents per hour. 
 
 The machine crew shall connect the machine 
 wires to entry wires and take proper care of the 
 machine and perform the necessary labor in mov- 
 ing from place to place. The machine crew shall 
 receive and deliver bits and supplies at the same 
 point at which pick miners receive their tools. 
 Machines may run double shift or they may run 
 one shift each twenty-four hours whether it. is 
 during the time the mine is running coal or not, 
 provided one machine crew does not run a ma- 
 chine to exceed forty-eight hours a week when 
 the mine runs every day, or as many hours as 
 the mine runs coal; but the machine crew may 
 work overtime in repairing their machines. 
 
 Duties of Loaders. 
 
 The loader shall have the same care and re- 
 sponsibility of the working place as the pick 
 miner; he will take up to and including four 
 inches of bottom coal left by the machine when 
 the same is ordinary; (what is meant by ordin- 
 ary is where it can be taken up in from 40 to 50 
 minutes across the room). If it takes more time, 
 or if at any time the machine crew leaves more 
 than four inches of bottom coal, whether caused 
 by impurities or otherwise, the loader shall do 
 the work at 75 cents per hour. 
 
 No restriction shall he placed on the amount 
 of coal which machines may mine, or upon the 
 number of places in which machines may cut, or 
 upon the number of loaders who may work after 
 one machine, provided loaders shall have a suffi- 
 cient number of places to keep them employed 
 
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regularly while the mine is in operation and there 
 shall not be more loaders employed at any mine 
 than can he given a fair turn. Where pick and 
 machine miners are employed in the same mine 
 the turn shall be made equal in earnings. 
 
 Should any operator employ more loaders than 
 machine can cut for, they shall be employed at 
 75 cents per hour until loading places can be 
 furnished. 
 
 This guarantee of work shall not apply in 
 cases of major accidents to machines or ma- 
 chinery or when power is off for an unreason- 
 able length of time, nor for the last hour of the 
 day or when the loader leaves his working place 
 before quitting time the preceding day. 
 
 Note: The above paragraph is inserted so thai 
 
 it will not be necessary to close down the en- 
 tire mine when a section of the mine is pre- 
 vented from loading coal by any of the above 
 causes. 
 
 Where required, the loader shall snub the coal 
 before being shot and leave the place in proper 
 condition for the machine crew. The loader shall 
 not to be held responsible for conditions beyond 
 his control. 
 
 General Provisions. 
 
 Any special work, such as making man holes, 
 partings, mule barns, etc., can be done by the 
 day at the wages guaranteed above. It is under- 
 stood that the loader in timbering his place shall 
 set props so as to clear the machine when prac- 
 ticable; if props are set as to interfere with the 
 machine on account of safety the machine crew 
 shall remove and re-set such props without 
 compensation. The width of rooms shall be not 
 
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less than twenty feet. The company shall have 
 the right, whenever any loaders are absent, to 
 place other loaders in the vacant places, either 
 by the ton or by the day, at the option of the 
 loader, in order that said machine crew will not 
 he deprived of the use of said places. If at any 
 time there is any dispute as to the loading out 
 of any place, the case shall be taken up as pro- 
 vided by Resolution VIII of the Des Moines 
 Agreement, and said loaders shall continue at, 
 work loading out said places pending settlement 
 of same. All settlements shall date from the 
 time question was raised. 
 
 Rules in the General Resolutions and Under- 
 ground Working Conditions governing pick min- 
 ers and operators shall also apply to machine 
 loaders and crews and operators of machine 
 mines. 
 
 Top Labor. 
 
 The wages of dumpers, chunkers, screening car 
 men, box car men, outside drivers for outside 
 work only, mine teamsters and all other com- 
 mon top labor shall he $5.23 per day, provided 
 those now receiving a higher rate of wages shall 
 not be reduced. , 
 
 Car Repairers, $1.00 per day increase over wages 
 
 for month of October, 1919. 
 
 Motormen, per day $5.63 
 
 Boy Slate Pickers, per day 3.18 
 
 SUB-DISTRICT NO. THREE 
 
 All mines in Sub-District No. 3 shall operate 
 on an absolute mine run basis. 
 
 Mine Run, per ton $1.23% 
 
 Eight-Foot Entry, per yard 3.18 
 
 Twelve-Foot Entry, per yard 3.10 
 
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The yardage prices provided above are made 
 on condition that the entrymen must cut all nor- 
 mal entries, top and bottom, before they are shot. 
 This shall not prevent the firing of practical lift- 
 ing shots. 
 
 Room Turning'. 
 
 Room turning, 9 foot neck, 8 feet wide, each, 
 $ 8 . 11 . 
 
 Rooms shall be considered turned when they 
 are 18 feet deep and 18 feet wide at the face. 
 
 Each additional yard or fraction thereof to be 
 paid at the rate of $2.70 per yard. 
 
 Where the neck is required to be cut more than 
 3 feet on one side, $3.00 additional shall be paid. 
 
 The company cannot require the miner to turn 
 the rooms for the pick mining room turning 
 price and then mine the rooms with machines 
 after machines have once been installed in the 
 mine. 
 
 Double Shifting. 
 
 Double shifting in entries, 25 cents per yard 
 extra. This is construed to mean where entry- 
 men are employed two separate shifts of eight 
 hours each in twenty-four hours. 
 
 Break-throughs. 
 
 Break-throughs between rooms and entries 
 shall be made in accordance with the state law 
 as to distance, and in rooms where break-throughs 
 are required to be cut at entry widths they shall 
 be paid at entry prices. 
 
 Brushing. 
 
 Brushing by taking up bottom or taking down 
 top shall be 9 1-5 cents per inch measured from 
 the top or the bottom of the vein, as the case 
 
 2.4 
 
may be, and of sufficient width for roadway not 
 to exceed 5 feet, This to apply to top and bot- 
 tom of ordinary slate or clay material, but if of 
 an unusually hard material, then the price to be 
 agreed upon locally, and failing to agree the 
 company to do the brushing, in which case the 
 said brushing shall be kept up to within 15 feel 
 of the face. 
 
 Width of Rooms. 
 
 The minimum width of any room shall be 20 
 feet. 
 
 Unloading Slate. 
 
 Loading or unloading slate, when done by the 
 miner, 28 cents per car, provided if there is any 
 changes in the capacity of the car there can be 
 a readjustment of the price but there shall be 
 no change in existing local agreements on the 
 subject. 
 
 Blacbsmithing. 
 
 The company shall do the sharpening, which 
 shall mean only the sharpening of picks, augers, 
 and wedges, the buttoning of scrapers and cut- 
 ting off of augers, and the price of the same 
 shall be 3-4 of one per cent of gross earnings, 
 and miners’ tools shall be given preference over 
 all other work done by the blacksmith, and be 
 sharpened in a workmanlike manner. 
 
 It is further agreed that the operator will fur- 
 nish a suitable place or places for the miners to 
 receive their tools, and in first class mines, where 
 it can be shown that it is necessary for the prop- 
 er regulation of the tool question, to have them 
 separated or handed out, the operator will fur- 
 nish some one to do the work, and the question 
 of wages and duties shall be left to the operator. 
 
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Day Wage Scale. 
 
 Track layers, timber men, cagers, per day $6.00 
 
 Drivers, trip riders and water haulers per day 6.00 
 Track layers and timbermen helpers, per day 5.7b 
 
 Boy Couplers, per day 3.8y 
 
 Oilers, per day 3.77 
 
 Trappers, per day 3.18 
 
 Motormen, per day 6.15 
 
 Drillers and Shooters, per day 6.00 
 
 Spike team drivers when engaged in regu- 
 lar switching, per day 6.1b 
 
 All other inside adult labor, per day 5.75 
 
 Stable men to receive $1.00 per day increase 
 over wages for month of October, 1919. 
 
 Boy drivers may be used between partings, but 
 when used at regular switching they shall be 
 considered as men and receive men’s wages. 
 
 Top Labor. 
 
 The wages of dumpers, chunkers, screening car 
 men, box car men, outside drivers for outsiae 
 work only, mine teamsters and all other com- 
 mon top labor shall be $5.23 per day, provided 
 
 those now receiving a higher rate of wages shall 
 not be reduced. 
 
 Motormen, per day $5.63 
 
 Boy Slate Pickers, per day 3.18 
 
 Electric Mining Machine Scale for Snb-District 
 No. 3. 
 
 Loading, drilling, shooting and furnishing of 
 
 explosives, mine run coal, per ton -98% 
 
 Machine Runner, per day 6.41 
 
 Machine Helper, per day 6.15 
 
 It is understood that the day wage fixed for 
 machine crew shall not prevent them from agree- 
 ing on a price per ton and yardage and room 
 
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turning; provided, the earnings be not less than 
 the above day wage scale. 
 
 Narrow Work. 
 
 Eight-Foot Entry, loaders, per yard $1.27 
 
 Twelve Foot Entry, loaders, per yard 1.24 
 
 Room necks, same measurement as pick 
 mining, loaders 3.244 
 
 Break-throughs between rooms and entries 
 shall be paid for at the same rate as entries of 
 equal widths. 
 
 Loaders in narrow work and room turning to 
 have the option of accepting tonnage and yard- 
 age rates, or being paid at the rate of $6.15 per 
 day, this to include use of miners’ tools. The 
 company to have the right to select loaders for 
 this work who may be transferred at the com- 
 pany’s option to a normal place ro load or mine 
 coal without loss of time. 
 
 Blacksmithing shall be y 2 of 1% of the load- 
 ers’ gross earnings. 
 
 Unties of Machine Crew. 
 
 The company shall furnish all parts and sup- 
 plies to keep machines in repair. The machine 
 crew shall perform the necessary labor for re- 
 pairs, not exceeding 30 minutes at any one time, 
 without extra compensation; all excess time 
 shall be paid for at the rate of 75 cents per hour. 
 The machine crew shall cut the coal within four 
 inches of the bottom, unless prevented by physi- 
 cal conditions; if they fail to do so and a loader 
 is required to do extra work the mine boss and 
 the mine president shall agree on the 
 amount due the loader for this work, and 
 this amount shall be deducted from the machine 
 crews’ earnings at the rate of 75 cents per hour. 
 
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The machine crew shall connect the machine 
 wires to entry wires and take proper care of the 
 machine and perform the necessary Jiabor jin 
 fiioving' from place to place. The machine crew 
 shall receive and deliver bits and supplies at the 
 same point at which pick miners receive their 
 tools. Machines may run double shift, or they 
 may run one shift each twenty-four hours, whe- 
 ther it is during the time the mine is running 
 coal or not, provided one machine crew does not 
 run a machine to exceed forty-eight hours a week 
 when the mine runs every day, or as many hours 
 as the mine runs coal, but the machine crew 
 may work over time in repairing their machines. 
 
 Duties of Loaders. 
 
 The loader shall have the same care and re- 
 sponsibility of the working place as the pick min- 
 er; he will take up to and including four inches 
 of bottom coal left by the machine when the 
 same as ordinary (what is meant by ordinary i3 
 where it can be taken up in from 40 to 50 min- 
 utes across the room). If it takes more time, 
 or if at any time the machine crew leaves more 
 than four inches of bottom coal, whether caused 
 by impurities or otherwise, the loader shall do 
 the work at 75 cents per hour. 
 
 No restrictions shall be placed on the amount 
 of coal which machines may mine, or upon the 
 number of places in which machines may cut, or 
 upon the number of loaders who may work after 
 one machine, provided loaders shall have a suf- 
 ficient number of places to keep them employed 
 regularly while the mine is in operation, and 
 there shall not be more loaders employed at any 
 time than can be given a fair turn. Where pick 
 and machine miners are employed in the same 
 mine the turn shall be made eaual in earnings. 
 
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Should any operator employ more loaders than 
 machine can cut for, they shall he employed at 
 75 cents per hour, until loading places can be 
 furnished. 
 
 This guarantee of work shall not ap- 
 ply in cases of major accidents to machine or 
 machinery or when power is off for an unreas- 
 onable length ^of time, nor for the last hour or 
 the day or when the loader leaves his Working 
 place before quitting time the preceding day. 
 
 Note: The above paragraph is inserted so that 
 
 it will not be necessary to close down the en- 
 tire mine when a section of the mine is pre- 
 vented from loading coal by any of the above 
 causes. 
 
 Where required, the loader shall snub the coal 
 before being shot and leave the place in proper 
 condition for the machine crew. The loader shall 
 not be held responsible for conditions beyond his 
 control. 
 
 General Provisions. 
 
 Any special work, such as making man holes, 
 partings, mule barns, etc., can be done by the 
 day at the wages guaranteed above. It is under- 
 stood that the loader in timbering his place shall 
 set props so as to clear the machine when prac- 
 ticable; if props are set as to interfere with 
 the machine on account of safety the machine 
 crew shall remove and re-set such props without 
 compensation. The width of rooms shall be not 
 less than twenty feet. The company shall have 
 the right, whenever any loaders are absent to 
 place other loaders in the vacant places, either 
 by the ton or by the day, at the option of the 
 loader in order that said machine crew will not 
 be deprived of the use of said places. If at any- 
 time there is any dispute as to the loading out 
 
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of any place the case shall be taken up as pro- 
 vided by Resolution VIII of the Des Moines 
 Agreement, and said loaders shall continue at 
 work loading out said places pending settlement 
 of same. All settlements shall date from the time 
 question was raised. 
 
 Rules in the General Resolutions and Under’ 
 ground Working Conditions governing pick min- 
 ers and operators shall also apply to machine 
 loaders, and crews, and operators of machine 
 mines. 
 
 SUB-DISTRICT 1V0. FOUR. 
 
 Screens. 
 
 In Boone county the screens shall he of dia- 
 mond bars, with 3-4 of an inch between the bars. 
 Screened Lump, per ton $1.7944 
 
 Mine run price, 10% less than screened lump 
 price. 
 
 Entry Driving, per yard 3.60 
 
 Room Turning, not to exceed 9 ft. neck 
 
 e.ach 9.05 
 
 Double Shifting. 
 
 Double shifting entries 25 cents per yard ex- 
 tra. This is construed to mean where entrymen 
 are employed two separate shifts of eight hours 
 each in twenty-four hours. 
 
 Coal at Boone less than 27 inches thick shall 
 
 he considered deficient work. 
 
 Day Wage Scale. 
 
 Head Track Layer, per day $6.00 
 
 Head Timbermen, per day 6.00 
 
 Drivers, Cagers, Trip Riders, per day 5.86 
 
 Boy Couplers, per day 3.89 
 
 Drillers, and Shooters, per day 6.00 
 
 Oilers, Trappers, per day 3.18 
 
 All other inside adult labor, per day 6.75 
 
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Top Labor. 
 
 The wages of dumpers, chunkers, screening car 
 men, box car men, outside drivers for outside 
 work only, mine teamsters, and all other top 
 labor shall be $5.23 per day, except those now 
 receiving a'higher rate of wages shall not be re- 
 
 duced. 
 
 Motormen, per day $5.63 
 
 Boy Slate Pickers, per day 3. IS 
 
 Blacksmithing. 
 
 The company shall do the sharpening, which 
 shall mean only the sharpening of picks, augers, 
 and wedges, buttoning of scrapers and the cut- 
 ting off of augers, the price of same shall be 
 3-4 of one per cent of the gross earnings. Min-, 
 ers’ tools shall be .given preference over all other 
 work done by the blacksmith and sharpened in 
 a workmanlike manner. 
 
 It is further agreed that the operator will fur- 
 nish suitable place or places for the miners to 
 receive their tools. 
 
 Rules and Conditions Governing Sub-District No. 
 
 4, Unless Otherwise Provided. 
 
 1st. Pushing not to exceed 150 feet and no 
 miner shall be required to push beyond the sec- 
 ond switch from face of entry; if required to 
 push more than 150 feet, 12 cents per ton extra 
 shall be paid for the first 30 feet. Beyond that 
 distance the price to be agreed upon locally. 
 
 2nd. All track on entry and room roads to be 
 iron and laid at the expense of the company. 
 
 3rd. Brushing not to be more than 9 feet back 
 from face of coal, company to build roadside 
 buildings in entries and roadways. The miner 
 
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shall leave the usual space on either side of 
 track for said buildings, but in cases where the 
 gob is entirely filled, the miner shall not be re- 
 quired to load out any dirt unless suitably com- 
 pensated for so doing. 
 
 4tb. Skips driven along old gobs shall be paid 
 foi at the rate of 12 cents per ton extra where 
 it is necessary for the miner to move crushed 
 coal or loose dirt. 
 
 Mining Machine Scale for Longwail Work — 
 
 4th Sub-District. 
 
 Loaders, per ton, screened lump coal $1.1677 
 
 'Mine run price 10% less than screened lump price 
 
 Machine Runners, per day : $6.41 
 
 Machine Shovellers, per day 6.15 
 
 Machine Helpers, per day 6.00 
 
 It is understood that the day wage fixed for 
 machine crew shall not prevent them from 
 agreeing on a price per ton, provided their earn- 
 ings be not less than the above day wage scale. 
 
 Duties of the Machine Crew. 
 
 They shall mine in the clay as near the coal 
 as is practical, leaving not more than four inches 
 of clay above the cutter bar. In case the run- 
 ner leaves more than four inches of clay above 
 the cutter bar, the company shall handle the 
 clay so left, and in case it is the fault of the 
 runner the amount so paid shall be deducted 
 from the wages of the machine crew, if the crew 
 is working by the ton. Any black jack or other 
 impurities between the coal and clay shall be 
 considered a part of the vein, riiey shall re- 
 move the dirt cut by the machine from under 
 the coal and gob the same, clean up, sprag the 
 coal, and prop the place ready for the loader. 
 
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Make connection of machine wire to main wire 
 on entry, remove and replace all picks used for 
 undercutting the coal, deliver dull picks to black- 
 smith shop on mine premises and receive the 
 sharpened ones once each day if necessary. 
 
 Blacksmithing to be % of 1% of gross earnings 
 of loaders. 
 
 Should the machine require the attention of 
 the machinist, the machine crew shall notify the 
 mine foreman, and if the machinist should re- 
 quire a helper to repair said machine, then one 
 or more of the machine crew shall assist him 
 at the rate of 75 cents per hour. 
 
 They are to remove and load all bump coal and 
 check same to their credit. If the machine cuts 
 up to the coal at any time, the machine crew 
 can load out the coal, clean up the place same 
 as a loader, and check the coal to their credit to 
 be divided equally between runner, shoveller, 
 and helper. When the machine crew is work- 
 ing by the day all coal loaded by them shall be 
 credited to the company. When necessary the 
 company shall furnish mule and driver to move 
 the machine. 
 
 The machine crew shall have the same care 
 and responsibility of places as the pick miner. 
 Should the machine crew fail or neglect to per- 
 form any of the cares, duties or responsibilities 
 as set forth above, and it is necessary for the 
 loader to perform such work, the mine foreman 
 shall be notified by the party finding this con- 
 dition, and in the absence of the interested par- 
 ty he shall call the mine president and the two 
 shall agree on a price for such work, and the 
 
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amount so agreed upon shall be deducted from 
 the machine crew’s account and paid to the par- 
 ty doing such work. 
 
 Length of Cutter Bars on Machines. 
 
 It is agreed that the length of the cutter bars 
 on the machines in Boone shall not exceed three 
 feet; in Ogden, four feet. 
 
 Duties of the Loaders. 
 
 They shall have the same care and responsibil- 
 ity of places as the pick miners. The places 
 shall be taken on the rule of “first out, first 
 in,’’ and no restriction shall be placed on the 
 number of loaders loading after a machine, but 
 in case there are more loaders on the crew than 
 there are places for them to load out, when re- 
 quested by the loader, the company shall em- 
 ploy such loaders at company work at the rate 
 of 75 cents per hour, until places are cut for 
 them to load coal. This guarantee of work shall 
 not apply in cases of accident to machines or 
 machinery or unavoidable causes or delay, nor 
 for the last hour of the day or where the loader 
 leaves his working place before quitting time 
 the preceding day. 
 
 Should they fail to clean up their places ready 
 for the machine crew, the pit boss and mine 
 president shall investigate the matter, and shall 
 agree on the price for cleaning same and the 
 amount so agreed upon shall be deducted from i| 
 the pay of the loader leaving the place in baa 
 condition, and paid to the party cleaning same. 
 
 Where cap rock breaks with the coal the load- 
 er shall handlle same for the loading price up to | 
 and including eight inches in thickness. When 
 it exceeds this thickness the company shall han- 
 dle the same, provided it cannot be left up. 
 
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At Boone, coal below 27 inches in height shall 
 be considered deficient. In case the loader ana 
 the pit boss fail to agree on a price for loading 
 out a deficient place, the loader can appeal the 
 case to the local president and superintendent 
 of the mine or their representatives whose de- 
 cision shall be final and the loader shall continue 
 at work pending settlement. 
 
 Running Time. 
 
 A machine may run double shift or it may run 
 one shift each twenty-four hours whether it is 
 during the time the mine is running coal or not, 
 provided one machine crew does not run a ma- 
 chine to exceed 48 hours a week when the mine 
 runs every day, or as many hours as the mine 
 runs coal, but the machine crew may work over 
 time in helping to repair machines. 
 
 General Rules. 
 
 Rules in the General Resolutions and Under- 
 ground Working Conditions governing pick min- 
 ers and operators shall also apply to machine 
 loaders and crews and operators of machine 
 mines. 
 
 If at any time it becomes necessary to load 
 coal by the day the rate shall be $6.10 per day, 
 this to include the use of miners’ tools. 
 
 GENERAL RESOLUTIONS APPLYING TO DIS- 
 TRICT NO. IS. 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. ONE. 
 
 Definition of Eight Hour Work Day. 
 
 (a) The above is based upon an eight hour 
 work day and it is definitely understood and 
 agreed that an eight hour day means eight hours* 
 work in the mine at the usual working places 
 
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for each individual employe, six days a week 
 when required by the operator (Sundays and the 
 following holidays excepted: New Years’ Day, 
 
 Washington’s Birthday, April First, Decoration 
 Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving 
 Day, second Tuesday in December, 1920, and 
 Christmas Day. The above named holidays shall 
 be the only holidays under this agreement ex- 
 cept as hereinafter provided regarding pay days.) 
 This shall be exclusive of the time required in 
 reaching said working places in the morning and 
 returning from same at night. 
 
 Note: Should any of the above mentioned hol- 
 
 idays fall on Sunday the following Monday shall 
 be observed as same, except Washington’s Birth- 
 day. 
 
 Pay Days and Statement of Account. 
 
 (b) On pay days work will be discontinued at 
 the end of five consecutive hours of the opera- 
 tions of the mines (except in Sub-District No. 1) 
 and the operator shall commence paying as soon 
 as practicable after the mines have ceased op- 
 eration. 
 
 The operators shall pay all wages earned dur- 
 ing the first fifteen days of each month, not lat- 
 er than the first Saturday after the twentieth 
 t>f said month; and for wages earned after the 
 fifteenth of said month* not later than the first 
 Saturday after the fifth of the following month 
 , (except should pay day fall on any of the above 
 mentioned holidays the operator agrees to pay 
 on the preceding day in conformity with the 
 provisions made for pay days), and statements 
 l erly dated shall be issued to employes be- 
 fore day payment is made, and if for any good 
 
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reason an advance is asked and made it shall be 
 done without discount, either directly or indirect- 
 ly. 
 
 The shorter work day is granted employes on 
 pay day with the express understanding that each 
 individual employe will faithfully observe the 
 rules of working eight hours, each working day 
 and six days a week, as provided in clause (a) 
 of this resolution. And all local unions and the 
 individual members thereof shall adhere strictly 
 to this rule, and in case the employes of any 
 mine shall show a disregard tor the same the 
 operator affected may file his complaint wit the 
 Joint Board, who shall deprive the local union 
 | so offending of the privilege extended in this 
 resolution. 
 
 Rules Governing' Drivers. 
 
 (c) Drivers shall take their mules to and from 
 the stables and the time required in so doing 
 shall not include any part of the day’s labor, 
 their work beginning at the place where they 
 1 receive empty cars; but in no case shall a driv- 
 er’s time be docked while he is waiting for cars 
 at the point named. And in no case shall the 
 drivers be required to put in more than ten 
 minutes extra time on the road each way with 
 their mules from the stables to the place where 
 they receive their empty cars, without compen- 
 I sation for the entire time, and the custom of 
 harnessing and unharnessing the mules shall re- 
 main the same at each mine as heretofore. Where 
 it is the practice to haul men in the trip, the 
 latter shall leave the bottom at such time as 
 the eonfpany may determine to be necessary for 
 employes to reach their working places in time 
 to begin work at the hour fixed. It is further 
 
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agreed when the day men go down into the 
 mine in the morning they shall have at least j 
 two hours’ work. This not to apply in case j 
 of accidents occurring where the men would have 
 to be called out of the mine through a violation 
 of the state -mining law. 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. TWO 
 Starting Time. 
 
 The eight hour work day shall commence at 
 7 a. m. from April 1 to October 1, and 8 a. m. 
 from October 1 to April 1, except when other- 
 wise agreed locally, with one-half hour for noon : 
 where firing but once a day occurs, and one j 
 hour for noon where it is necessary to fire twice 
 a day. In neither case shall such nooning be 
 counted a part of the eight hour day. 
 
 RESOLUTION NO, THREE 
 Penalties for Loading Imparities. 
 
 (a) Both the miners and operators realizing 
 the importance of getting clean coal, to insure 
 the sale of same, it is mutually understood and 
 agreed that the miners and loaders will produce 
 their coal in such a manner as not to increase 
 the percentage of fine coal either by careless- 
 ness or reckless shooting, and will load the coal i : 
 free from impurities as nearly as possible. 
 
 (b) It is the duty of the miner and loaders to 
 clean his coal in his working place and load it j 
 as nearly as possible free from slate, sulphur, 
 and other impurities, and if any miner be dock- 
 ed for sending out dirty coal, he shall be noti- 
 fied by the mine foreman; if he be docked a sec- | 
 ond time, he shall be fined fifty cents^O cents); j 
 if he be docked a third time within fifteen days J 
 from the time of the first offense, or if he at 
 
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any tifhe sends out large quantities of impurities 
 : in any one car, he shall be fined $1.00 or dis- 
 ; charged at the option of the operator. But be- 
 ; fore discharge the mine president and superin- 
 tendent shall investigate such case, and if found 
 1 1 guilty the discharge penalty may be enforced. It 
 is understood local agreements shall govern the 
 amount that constitutes a dock or large quan- 
 tity at each mine. When there is no local agree- 
 ment the local officers and superintendent of the 
 company shall make such an agreement. 
 
 (c) It is hereby agreed that the local officers 
 shall co-operate with the coal company to in- 
 sure clean coal. 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. FOUR 
 (Applies to Sub-Districts 2, 8 and 4.) 
 Responsibilities, Timbering and Care of Places. 
 
 ( (a) In accordance with the state law, the 
 company shall furnish all necessary timbers and 
 the miner shall keep his room securely propped. 
 If a miner working in a room fails to securely 
 prop the same, or neglects to prop as directed 
 by the mine foreman, or carelessly shoots down 
 the props or timbers, and a fall of slate occurs 
 through such failure, neglect or carelessness, he 
 shall immediately clear his roadway of such falls 
 of slate and do all necessary retimbering, and in 
 case of his neglect to do so, the company may 
 do such work and charge the expense thereof 
 to such miner. 
 
 Double Timbering. 
 
 (b) In case the room has been properly tim- 
 bered as above set forth and the roof from any 
 cause becomes dangerous so as to require double 
 
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timbering the company shall, when notified by 
 the miner, do the necessary work to protect the 
 roadway. 
 
 Falls, Etc. 
 
 (c) When a fall of slate occurs between the 
 inside props and the face of his room of an av- 
 erage thickness not to exceed three inches, he 
 shall immediately remove such fall, and in case 
 of his neglect to do so, the company may do such 
 work and charge the expense thereof to sucn 
 miner. If of a greater thickness he shall noti- 
 fy the mine foreman, and if the mine foreman 
 or his representative fail to visit the miners 
 room within' two hours after notification, the 
 miner shall clean the fall at the rate of 75 cents 
 per hour, but if, upon visiting the miner’s room 
 within the time specified above, the mine fore- 
 man and miner affected can agree on a price for 
 cleaning said fall either by the inch, hour, or 
 lump sum, they shall do so; if ny the inch, it 
 shall be 9 1-5 cents per inch per running yard; 
 if by the hour it shall be 75 cents per hour; 
 if they fail to agree on the lump sum or hour 
 basis, the miner may remove same at 9 1-5 cents 
 per inch. If he refuses to do this he shall im- 
 mediately notify the mine foreman who shall 
 furnish the necessary labor to make such re- 
 imoval. If the fall is not removed \nd tjhe 
 place properly secured within twenty-four hours, 
 the miners affected thereby shall be given em- 
 ployment until the same is removed. 
 
 Miners’ Eight of Appeal. 
 
 (d) If any miner is dissatisfied with any de- 
 cision of the mine foreman, an appeal may be 
 taken to the superintendent and the mine pres- 
 
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ident, who shall decide the question, and their 
 decision shall be final, but the miner shall con- 
 tinue at work pending decision. 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. FIVE 
 
 Right to Hire and Discharge — Compensation 
 
 The right to hire and discharge, the manage- 
 ment of the mine and the direction of the work- 
 ing force, are vested exclusively in the operator 
 and the U. M. W. of A. shall not abridge this 
 right. It is not the intention of this provision 
 to encourage the discharge of employes or the 
 refusal of employment to applicants because of 
 personal prejudice or activity in matters affect- 
 ing the U. M. W. of A., nor on account of creed, 
 color or nationality. If any employe shall be 
 suspended or discharged by the company, and 
 it is claimed that an injustice has been done 
 him, an investigation to be conducted by the 
 parties and in the manner set forth in Resolu- 
 tion No. 8, of this agreement, shall be taken up 
 : promptly, and if it is proven an injustice has 
 I been done, the operator shall reinstate said em- 
 ploye and pay him full compensation for the 
 time he has been suspended and out of employ- 
 ment; provided, that if no decision shall be ren- 
 dered within five days, the case shall be consid- 
 ered closed in so far as compensation is con- 
 cerned, except, in cases going to arbitration the 
 compensation limit is extended to ten days. 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. SIX. 
 
 Fatal Accidents and Funerals. 
 
 In the event of an instantaneous death by ac- 
 cident in the mine, the miners and the under- 
 j ground employees shall have the privilege of dis- 
 continuing work for the remainder of that day, 
 but work at the option of the operator shall be 
 
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resumed on the day following and continue 
 thereafter. In case the operator elects to oper- 
 ate the mines on the day of the funeral of the 
 deceased as above, or whether the death has 
 resulted from an accident in the mine, or from 
 any other cause, individual employes may at their 
 option absent themselves from worK for the pur- 
 pose of attending such funeral, hut not other- 
 wise. In the event that the operator shall elect 
 to operate the mine on the day of such funeral 
 caused by instantaneous death in that mine, then 
 from the proceeds of such day’s operation each 
 member of the U. M. W. of A. employed at the 
 mine at which the deceased member was employ- 
 ed shall contribute 50 cents and the operator 
 $25.00 for the benefit of the family of the de- 
 ceased ox his legal representatives, to be col- 
 lected through the office of the company. Ex- 
 cept in fatal accidents as above the mine shall 
 in no case be thrown idle because of any death 
 or funeral; but in case of the death of any em- 
 ploye of the company, or member of his family, 
 any individual employe may at his option absent 
 himself from work for the purpose of attending 
 such funeral, but not otherwise. Where the lo- 
 cal union fails to prevent the abuse of the above 
 resolution by parties absenting themselves from 
 work and not attending the funeral the Joint 
 Board shall impose proper penalties. 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. SEVEN 
 (Applying to Shooting Coal Mines.) 
 
 Track Laying by the Miner. 
 
 It is agreed that the miner shall lay the track 
 in his working place, and the operator shall 
 have the option of furnishing either wooden or 
 iron track, provided, that if iron track is fur- 
 
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nished the rails will be drilled and ready for 
 ' use. Ties may be of wood or steel; if wood, 
 they must be sawed or flat, and if steel they 
 ~ must be provided with suitable and convenient 
 s fastenings. The length of rails furnished by the 
 : operator shall not exceed twelve feet. When- 
 ,r |eyer necessary for temporary use, the miner 
 shall be furnished short length rails. 
 
 ; t ' RESOLUTION NO. EIGHT, 
 
 al Settlement of Disputes — Duties and Limitations 
 en of Mine President. 
 
 A ! The duties of the mine president shall be con- 
 hej fined to the adjustment of disputes between the 
 
 • pit boss and miners or mine laborers arising out 
 or i of this agreement or any local agreement made 
 
 ; in connection herewith. The mine president and 
 !• the superintendent are empowered to adjust, and 
 
 • in case of their disagreement it shall be refer- 
 11 red in writing to the president of the Iowa Coal 
 i ; Operators’ Association and the president of Dis- 
 
 - trict 13, U. M. W. of A., who may decide the 
 matter, either in person or by representatives; 
 
 it their decisions shall be subject to the review 
 S and approval of the presidents; should the pres- 
 
 - idents fail to agree, they must either submit the 
 e I matter to arbitration or convene the Joint Board 
 a and submit in writing the question in dispute. 
 
 1 No case of discharge shall be submitted to the 
 Joint Board, and in all cases the miners or mine 
 laborers and parties involved (except discharg- 
 ed employes) must continue at work until a final 
 decision is reached in the manner above set 
 forth. 
 
 (The Joint Board shall consist of the execu- 
 tive committee of the Iowa Coal Operators’ As- 
 sociation and the executive board of Distict No. 
 13, U. M. W. of A.) 
 
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(b). If any employe doing day work shall 
 cease work because of a grievance which has 
 not been taken up for adjustment in the manner 
 herein provided, and such action shall seem like- 
 ly to impede the operation of the mine, the mine 
 president shall assist the company in obtaining 
 a man or men to take such vacant place or places 
 at the scale rate in order that the mine may ;i 
 continue at work. In case the mine is shut down 
 in violation of these agreements, or any of them, 
 the organization will at all times furnish all the 
 men required by the operator at the scale rate 
 to properly care for th? mine. 
 
 It is further agreed and understood no per- 
 son not an actual employe in the mine can of- 
 ficiate as the mine president. 
 
 Note: The superintendent or the mine pres- : 
 
 ident will have the right to demand the Local 
 Executive Board, the meeting of said Board not 
 to be held while the mine is in operation, and 
 should they fail to adjust it, it shall be referred 
 as stated above. 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. NINE 
 
 False Top or Botlom and How Paid. 
 
 All false top or bottom, in shooting coal mines 
 of an average thickness of over three inches, 
 shall be paid 9 1-5 cents an inch per running 
 yard; provided when the top can be left up, or 
 the bottom left down, then the company shall 
 not be required to pay the same. 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. TEN 
 Adjustment of Deficient Work. 
 
 That all deficient work not covered by this 
 agreement shall be paid for at a price to be 
 mutually agreed upon between the mine boss 
 
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: j| and the party concerned; if they cannot agree 
 as in any other manner, they may agree on a price 
 er per day, and failing to agree the matter shall be 
 ». referred to the superintendent of the mine and 
 ae the mine president for adjustment; and in case 
 they fail to agree it shall be referred for final 
 pj j .settlement to the operator of the mine (or his 
 y representative), and the miners’ state president 
 -j (or some one designated to represent him) ; the 
 , miner shall continue to work pending an inves- 
 e tigation and whatever settlement is made shall 
 ( e date from the time the question of deficiency 
 was raised; if the company decides to stop the 
 place no investigation shall he made, but the 
 miner shall be given another place. 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. ELEVEN 
 
 Price of House Coal. 
 
 The price of house coal furnished employes 
 it for their own use in the several districts shall 
 1 be as follows, per ton of 2,000 pounds at the 
 1 mine : 
 
 First District — 
 
 Putnam county. Mo., mine run per ton $3.35 
 Screened or hand picked lump coal, per 
 
 ton 3.49 
 
 s Second District — 
 
 Lump coal, per ton , $3.17 
 
 Nut coal, per ton 1.97 
 
 j Third District — 
 
 Lump coal, per ton $_3.49 
 
 At shipping mines and at local mines 
 
 per ton 3.81 
 
 Fourth District — 
 
 Lump coal, per ton $3.81 
 
 Steam coal, through regulation screen, 
 
 per ton 2.10 
 
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RESOLUTION NO. TWELVE 
 Prices for Dead Work. 
 
 All labor and dead work not covered in this 
 agreement shall be paid an advance of 20 per 
 cent. 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. THIRTEEN 
 Engineers’ Duties and Wages. 
 
 (a) Engineers, first class, lump coal, 300 tons 
 and over, mine run 425 tons and over, $176.16 
 per month; second class, lump coal 200 to 300 
 tons, mine run 285 to 425, $169.15 per month; 
 third class, lump coal 200 tons or less, mine run 
 285 tons or less, $156.32 per month. Tail ropej 
 engineer’s wages to be $5.61 per day or $156.32 
 per month, nine hours to constitute a day’s 
 work. Sunday work without extra pay shall be 
 confined to customary care, but not operation 
 of machinery or boilers, and such work shall 
 not exceed four hours per day. 
 
 Tonnage. 
 
 (b) The tonnage shall be determined by the 
 average of the mine for the month of November 
 of each year effective the following April, has- I 
 ed on screened or mine run coal and comput- |l 
 ed on the basis of the number of hours the mine 
 operates. This scale of wages only applies to 
 mines in operation at least one year, and in all j[ 
 new mines the wages of the engineer shall be 
 advanced with the increased tonnage each month j 
 until the maximum rate is reached. In no case 
 shall the engineers, firemen or pumpers, be in- 
 terfered with or asked to cease work by any 
 local committee or local union official during 
 the life of this agreement. 
 
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Note: In computing the scale for the year be- 
 
 ginning April 1st, 1920, the month of October, 
 1919, shall be the basis. 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. FOURTEEN 
 Rules and Wages — Firemen, Pumpers, Black- 
 smiths and Ifightwatchmen. 
 
 (a) Firemen and pumpers shall be permitted 
 to work such hours as may be mutually agreed 
 upon between them and the operators, provided 
 that the minimum rate shall be .6532 cents for 
 firemen, and the minimum wages for inside 
 pumpers shall be .711 cents per hour. 
 
 (b) Twelve hours for night watchmen, eight 
 hours for blacksmiths, and mechanics shall con- 
 stitute a day’s work, and their wages shall be 
 advanced $1.00 per day over wages for month 
 of October, 1919, but no nightwatchman now 
 working less than twelve hours shall be requir- 
 ed to work more than present hours. All oth- 
 er company men shall be permitted to work 56 
 hours per week when necessary, but no com- 
 pany men, except those necessary to get men 
 in and out of the mine, shall be compelled to 
 work regularly more than eight hours per day. 
 In case of emergency, mechanics, blacksmiths 
 and other necessary men to make repairs may 
 work longer. 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. FIFTEEN 
 Check Off. 
 
 The operators agree to check off all dues, in- 
 itiation fees, assessments and hospital dues from 
 the miners and mine laborers when desired and 
 this agreement is their authority therefor. The 
 U. M. W. of A., District No. 13, agrees to pro- 
 tect the operators where such checking is done, 
 but no compensation shall be charged for sucb 
 
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deductions; provided that not more than $5.00 
 he deducted in any one pay from any one person. 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. SIXTEEN 
 Payments and Deductions. 
 
 This agreement is based upon cash payments 
 after deducting mine expenses, organization and 
 hospital dues, accepted orders, house rent and 
 fuel. No discrimination shall be made against 
 any employe refusing to deal in the company 
 store or live in a company house. 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. SEVENTEEN 
 
 Wages of Miners Taken from Face. 
 
 Miners taken from the face shall be paid $6.uu 
 per day and will be given their turn of cars for 
 one day. Any one refusing to do day worK 
 may have his turn stopped; provided he is qual- 
 ified by experience to do such work; and pro- 
 vided further, that no one shall be required to 
 do such day work two. consecutive days and 
 such qualified men shall be called upon in their 
 turn. 
 
 Boys cannot be compelled to leave the face 
 to do day work, but if so used they shall be 
 paid the rate of wages provided for that class of 
 work performed, and be given the turn for that 
 day. 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. EIGHTEEN 
 
 Fractional Time. 
 
 When a mine works part of the morning the 
 miners may continue at work until noon; when 
 a mine works part of the afternoon thg miners 
 may continue at work for the balance of the 
 day. The operator must notify men as soon as 
 practicable after the mine shuts down. 
 
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No miner shall be nermitted to work at the 
 face on idle days to make coal ready and shall 
 only be permitted to do work with permission 
 of the mine president the same to be in urgent 
 cases. 
 
 This resolution to mean that no miner can 
 work at the face to make coal ready or perform 
 any other labor or do timbering on idle days 
 in his place without the consent of the mine 
 president, and in harmony with the above res- 
 olution it must be in urgent cases, and it is 
 further understood that this resolution does not 
 provide that where the company desires to se- 
 cure miners to perform extra work that they 
 must gain the consent of the mine president and 
 that when such extra help is needed that they 
 can call upon such competent help in their turn 
 as long as they are not displacing any of the 
 regular day men who are qualified to do such 
 work. 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. NINETEEN 
 
 Rules Governing Foreman Doing Day Work. 
 
 The foreman may lend a hand when working 
 a crew, but the company cannot lay off a man 
 and fill his place by working a foreman or boss. 
 
 It is not the intent of this resolution that the 
 foreman will be prevented from doing anything 
 that is necessary to keep the mine in operation. 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. TWENTY 
 
 Double Shifting of Rooms. 
 
 There shall be no double shifting of rooms 
 without the consent of the miner or miners af- 
 fected. 
 
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RESOLUTION NO. TWENTY-ONE 
 Shot Examiners’ Duties and Qualifications. 
 
 (a) In all mines where coal is blasted from 
 the solid, competent persons shall be employed 
 by the company to examine all shots before they 
 are charged. Said examiners shall have the 
 power to prohibit the charging or firing of any 
 shot, which, in their judgment is unsafe. Be- 
 fore entering upon the discharge of their duties, 
 said examiners shall receive certificates of com- 
 petency from the state mine inspector in the 
 district in which the mine where they are em- 
 ployed is located. No mine foreman employed 
 by the company shall be permitted to act as shot 
 examiner. The state mine inspector shall have 
 the power to refuse to give a certificate to any 
 person to act as shot examiner who, in his judg- 
 ment, is not sufficiently competent, or he may 
 revoke the certificate granted should it appear 
 that a shot examiner is negligent or careless in 
 the performance of his work. 
 
 When Shot Examiners May Act as Shot Firers. 
 
 (b) Whenever a majority of the miners in 
 any mine so decide, they may employ shot fir- 
 ers for said mine, and whenever satisfactory ar- 
 rangements can be made between the miners and 
 the shot examiners for the same persons to aci 
 as shot examiners and shot firers, the same may 
 be done. 
 
 Rules Governing Shot Firing. 
 
 (c) The operator shall decide as to the ne- 
 cessity of firing twice a day in mines that have 
 been in operation less than one year, and a ma- 
 jority of the miners employed in any mine shall 
 decide as to the necessity of firing twice a day 
 in all mines that have been in operation more 
 
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than a year; provided that in all mines where 
 the majority of the miners decide to fire but 
 once 3C day, they shall give the operator suf- 
 ficient time tq develop his mine so that the same 
 working force and output per miner per day, 
 shall not be reduced; and provided, further, that 
 if after changing from twice to once a day fir- 
 ing, the majority of the miners in any mine 
 shall decide to return to twice a day firing, or, 
 if, after trying once a day firing for a period 
 of thirty daVs that the mine is in operation, it 
 shall be proven that the output per miner per 
 day is less than when shooting twice a day, on 
 account of the miner not being able to produce 
 the coal, the operator shall have the right to 
 return to twice a day firing. 
 
 Safety of Employes and Duties of the Mine 
 Foreman. 
 
 (d) The miner shall keep his working place 
 and the operator the entries as free from dust 
 as practicable, and the entries shall be sprinkled 
 as often as necessary to keep them in damp con- 
 dition. 
 
 (e) In accordance with the state law only 
 sand, soil, *or clay shall be used for tamping 
 which shall be placed in, or near each cross cut 
 in entries, when rooms are being turned con- 
 tinuous. Where the block system is used it shall 
 be placed in the center cross-cut on the entry 
 between the rooms, and the shot holes shall be 
 tamped solidly from the powder to the mouth of 
 the hole, whether squibs or fuse are used to ig- 
 nite the powder. Any shot having blown the 
 tamping shall not be recharged and fired the 
 second time. 
 
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(f) The wages of the shot examiners shall be 
 $0.94 per day, and they may be employed on 
 fractional time at the above mentioned rate. 
 
 The operator shall have the privilege of instal- 
 ling electric shot firing machines, provided the 
 expense of firing will be no greater on the min- 
 er than the present system. 
 
 (g) No person shall interfere with the shot 
 examiner or shot firer in discharge of his duties, 
 except those who have a right to do so, under 
 the state law. 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. TWENTY-TWO 
 Condition of Working Places. 
 
 (a) The company shall as far as practicable 
 keep the water off the road and out of the work- 
 irgplace. When a miner has to leave his work- 
 ing place on account of water through the neg- 
 lect of the company, it shall employ said miner 
 at company work; provided that said miner is 
 competent to do such work, or he will be given 
 m other working place until such water is tak- 
 en out of his place. 
 
 (b) Where it is an established condition or 
 agreement that the track shall be laid by the 
 company, and a miner has to leave his work- 
 ing place on account of such track not being 
 laid through the neglect of the company, it shall 
 employ said miner at company work when prac- 
 ticable, provided said miner is competent to do 
 such work, or he shall be given another place 
 until such time as such track is laid in his 
 place. In shooting coal mines, it is understood 
 that under ordinary conditions, the miner can 
 demand his switch when his place is in fifteen 
 feet. 
 
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RESOLUTION NO. TWENTY-THREE 
 
 Signals. 
 
 In all mines when the men are going to and 
 from their work at regular starting and quitting 
 time, the company shall employ men at the top 
 and bottom of the shaft, whose duty shall be 
 to attend to signal bells. 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. TWENTY-FOUR 
 
 Price and Quality of Powder. 
 
 Under the award of the Bituminous Coal Com- 
 mission, the amount for handling powder and 
 other expense incident to same shall be twenty- 
 five (25c) cents per keg above the cost price of 
 powder in car load lots. 
 
 Dynamite caps and fuse shall be sold at cost 
 at the mines and shall be handled as in the past, 
 with no additional charge. The above prices on 
 explosives shall take effect on deliveries of June 
 9th, 1920. 
 
 (The former agreement provided that powder 
 and other explosives be delivered at the miners’ 
 working places as early as practicable and to be 
 of standard grade and quality.) 
 
 Regulating Character of Powder to Be Used in 
 
 Coal Mines and to Conform to the Follow- 
 ing Specifications. 
 
 (a) It shall have a specific gravity of not 
 less than 1.74 nor more than 1.90. 
 
 (b) It shall have a moisture content of not 
 to exceed one per cent at the time when shipped 
 by the manufacturer or his agent. 
 
 (c) Said powder shall be sold for use in coal 
 mines only in seven sizes of granulation to be 
 determined as follows: 
 
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CCC shall be powder which shall pass through 
 a screen having round hole perforation of 40-64 
 of an inch in diameter and remain on a screen 
 having round hole perforation of 32-64 of an 
 inch in diameter. 
 
 CC shall be powder which shall pass through 
 a screen having round hole perforation of 36-64 
 of an inch in diameter and remain on a screen 
 having round hole perforations of 26-64 of an 
 inch in diameter. 
 
 C shall be powder which shall pass through a 
 screen having round hole perforation of 27-64 
 of an inch in diameter and remain on a screen 
 having round hole perforations of 18-64 of an 
 inch in diameter. 
 
 F shall be powder which shall pass through a 
 screen having round hole perforations of 20-64 
 of an inch in diameter and remain on a screen 
 having round hole perforations of 12-64 of an 
 inch in diameter. 
 
 FF shall be powder which shall pass through 
 a screen having rouncLhole perforations of 14-64 
 of an inch in diameter and remain on a screen 
 having round hole perforations of 7-64 of an inch 
 in diameter. 
 
 FFF shall be powder which shall pass through 
 a screen having round hole perforations of 9-64 
 of an inch in diameter and remain on a screen 
 having round hole perforations of 3-64 of an 
 inch in diameter. 
 
 FFFF shall be powder which shall pass through 
 a screen having round hole perforations of 5-64 
 of an inch in diameter and remain on a screen 
 having round hole perforations of 2-64 of an 
 inch in diameter. 
 
 In testing powder for size of granulation as 
 herein required, it shall be permissible for a giv- 
 
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eu size to contain not to exceed 7% per cent 
 by weight of grains of the size next larger and 
 per cent by weight of grains of the size next 
 smaller. 
 
 When there is any complaint against the brand 
 of powder in use in any mine a joint investiga- 
 tion shall be made under the authority of the 
 Joint Board and their decision shall be final. 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. TWENTY-FIVE 
 Sinking 1 and Development of New Mines. 
 
 Sinkers per day of eight hours, $6.15. This 
 rate of wages shall apply to men employed in 
 opening new slopes and retimbering shafts or 
 enlarging same. Sinkers may ne continued at 
 the above wage to complete the bottom partings 
 and any other work in connection therewith, and 
 if the mine is not prepared by that time to op- 
 erate under the terms of this agreement and the 
 development of entry work begins under this 
 condition, the tonnage and yardage prices as 
 provided for in this agreement to govern the 
 various sub-districts, shall prevail, and twenty- 
 seven (27) cubic feet shall be the basis for meas- 
 uring a ton of mine run coal. 
 
 This to apply to normal entries. In case the 
 entries should be abnormal, then extra compen- 
 sation for such deficiency shall be allowed, the 
 same to be determined as herein provided for the 
 government of deficient work. 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. TWENTY-SIX 
 
 Regarding Man Train. 
 
 It is hereby agreed that this agreement does 
 not in any way govern the operation of railroad 
 trains, and where such are operated for the pur- 
 pose of hauling men to and from the mine, all 
 
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questions affecting the same must be settled 
 without interfering with the operation of the 
 mine. If any disagreement occurs locally, the 
 question shall be referred to the district presi- 
 dents of the two associations. 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. TWENTY-SEVEN 
 Ambulances, Bandages, Etc. 
 
 At all mines the operator shall keep a supply 
 of blankets, oil, bandages, and stretchers, and in 
 case of accidents, shall furnish a suitable con- 
 veyance to care for and convey the injured per- 
 sons to their homes. 
 
 The Joint Board shall encourage “First-Aid to 
 the Injured’’ work, and a committee of three op- 
 erators and three miners shall be appointed for 
 this purpose. 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. TWENTY-EIGHT 
 
 Railroad Car Question. 
 
 It is understood that an operator shall not ask 
 the miners to go to work when he has no as- 
 surance of cars, or less than enough to provide 
 two hours work, ibut when the operator has the 
 assurance that cars will be received within two 
 hours from the starting time, the men shall go 
 to their working places. 
 
 If cars are not received at the end of two 
 /hours, the operator must notify the men im- 
 mediately, and the miners shall not be required 
 to go to work the next day, unless enough cars 
 are at the mine for at least one-half day’s con- 
 tinuous operation. If an operator abuses this 
 resolution he shall be fined $25.00 for each of- 
 fense. 
 
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RESOLUTION NO. TWENTY-NINE 
 
 Square Turn. 
 
 In all mines, the mine foreman must keep a 
 square turn as nearly as possible, and the turn 
 ; must be made even once each pay or oftener, if 
 practicable. 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. THIRTY 
 Penalties for Violation of Agreement. 
 
 (a) Should any local union or its members 
 employed at any mine cause the mine or a part 
 of the mine to shut down, in violation of this 
 agreement (where the state mining law is not 
 being violated) each member of the U. M. W. of 
 A. employed at said mine, except those who con- 
 tinue at work, shall be fined two dollars ($2.00) 
 for each day or part of a day the mine is thus 
 thrown idle. 
 
 When the miners shut a mine down, or part 
 of the mine, because they claim the state min- 
 ing law is being violated, and the above fine is 
 assessed, and it should he proven upon investi- 
 gation that said law was being violated, as they 
 claimed, then the operator shall be fined two dol- 
 lars ($2.00) per day per man affected; provided 
 that the miners have handed to the operator or 
 his representative a written statement, signed by 
 officers of the local union at the time of said 
 shut down and before they leave the premises, 
 setting forth why the shut down occurred, also 
 how and wherein the said law was being violat- 
 ed. 
 
 (b) Should any operator, or his representa- 
 tives, cause the mine or a part of the mine to 
 shut down in violation of this agreement, where 
 the state mining law is not being violated, he 
 shall be fined two dollars ($2.00) per man af- 
 
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fected, for each day or part of a day the mine 
 is thus thrown idle. 
 
 (c) Any U. M. W. of A. officer or committee- 
 man who shall advise or encourage any employe 
 to refuse or cease work, where he has a right 
 to work under this agreement, may be discharg- 
 ed. 
 
 (d) Any operator, who, through his mine fore- 
 man or any other representative, refuses to live 
 up to this agreement, as interpreted by joint 
 authority or refuses to redeem any written prom- 
 ise he makes an employe, or causes any employe 
 to lose work that he is entitled to under this 
 agreement shall be fined five dollars ($5.00) for 
 each offense. 
 
 (e) Whenever at any mine one or more men 
 regularly employed at day work refuse or fail 
 to work, because of any grievance he or they 
 shall be fined two dollars ($2.00) for each day 
 or part of a day. 
 
 (f) Not more than five days’ fine can be as- 
 sessed, by either party for any one shut down 
 in violation of this agreement. 
 
 (g) All fines assessed against employes under 
 this agreement shall be collected by the operat- 
 or from the pay for the half month in which 
 the violation of the agreement occurred, or the 
 first money due thereafter, and the operator 
 shall remit the same to the treasurer of the 
 Joint Board within twenty days after collection, 
 with an itemized statement of the same for the 
 U M. W. of A., and the Coal Operators Associa- 
 tion. A failure on the part of the operator to 
 do so shall make him liable to a penalty of 50 
 per cent of the amount involved. 
 
 (h) All fines assessed against the operator 
 
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shall be remitted to the treasurer of the Joint 
 Board within twenty days after official notice is 
 given in writing. Said notice shall be given 
 within two weeks from the alleged violation, 
 stating the cause of the fine from the local un- 
 ion to the operator affected. 
 
 All fines provided for in this agreement shall 
 be automatically collected and any operator fail- 
 ing to collect such fine shall pay a penalty of 
 $2.00 for each employe subject to be fined, the 
 same to be collected and retained in the Miners 
 .District Organization. And in no case shall any 
 fine be refunded except by mutual agreement of 
 the accredited representatives of the operators 
 and the miners. 
 
 It is further agreed that where any employe 
 enters suit in the civil courts to recover any fine 
 collected in accordance herewith the District Or- 
 ganization shall reimburse the operator for ex- 
 pense incurred on account of such suit. 
 
 The Joint Board may use all the monies re 
 ceived from fines for such worthy purposes as 
 it may deem proper. 
 
 Eight of Appeal. 
 
 If any local union or operator claims that a 
 fine has been collected contrary to the terms of 
 this agreement, they shall have the right of ap- © 
 ptal to the Joint Board. Any appeal not set- 
 tled within thirty (30) days must be arbitrated. 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. THIRTY-ONE 
 Labor Saving Machinery. 
 
 The operators have the right to install labor 
 saving machinery in any mine, and such machine 
 work not now covered by this agreement, shall 
 be governed by such scale as the Joint Board 
 
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may determine, and until such scale is made by 
 i Joint Board the machines shall be operated on 
 the following basis by the day: 
 
 Runner, per day $6.41 
 
 Shoveller, per day 6.1b 
 
 Loader, per day 6.15 
 
 Loader to furnish his own tools for the above 
 prices. 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. THIRTY-TWO 
 
 In all new shooting ' coal mines opened dur- 
 ing the term of this agreement there shall be end 
 doors in mine cars. This shall not prevent the 
 use of open end cars for the handling of dirt. 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. THIRTY-THREE 
 
 Districts, 
 
 The district provided for in this agreement 
 shall be understood as follows: District No. 1, 
 
 all mining coal mines in Appanoose and Wayne 
 counties, Iowa. District No. 2, all shooting coal 
 mines in Wapello, Marion, Monroe, Davis, War- 
 ren, Lucas, Mahaska and Keokuk counties. Dis- 
 trict No. 3, all shooting mines of Polk, Jasper, 
 Dallas and Boone counties. District No. 4, all 
 mining coal mines of Boone and Webster coun- 
 ties. 
 
 When a new mine is opened and there is any 
 question as to which district it should be placed 
 in, the Joint Board shall decide as to the district, 
 or if it is found necessary to have a special scale 
 for said mine, the Joint Board shall make such 
 peale as to them seems just and proper. 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. THIRTY-FOUR 
 Time Limit in Which Cases Shall Be Taken Up 
 and Disposed of. 
 
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 It is understood that all cases arising out of 
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this agreement shall be taken up for investiga- 
 tion and settlement, within the time limits herein 
 specified. 
 
 (1) All discharge cases must be taken up and 
 settled within one week from date discharge oc- 
 curs. 
 
 (2) All deficiency cases must be disposed of 
 jvithin two weeks from date case was placed in 
 the hands of~the officers. 
 
 (3) All other cases arising out of this agree- 
 ment shall be disposed of within thirty (30) days 
 including cases going to the Joint Board. 
 
 RESOLUTION NO. THIRTY-FIVE 
 Local Demands. 
 
 There shall be no demands made locally which 
 are in conflict with this agreement and all es- 
 tablished working local agreements and customs 
 heretofore existing not in conflict with the pres- 
 ent agreement, shall remain in force, unless 
 changed by mutual consent. 
 
 Signed on behalf of the Operators. 
 
 DAN CUSHING, 
 
 President. 
 
 GEORGE HEAPS, JR. 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 Signed on behalf of the Miners. 
 
 J. C. LEWIS, 
 
 President. 
 
 JNO. GAY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
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