. Review of reviews and world's work. s instead of by the labor organization leadersthemselves. THE EIGHT-HOUE DAY, As to the demand for an eight-hour day forall company men, with no reduction in the pres-ent rate of wages, Mr. Roberts presents the fol-lowing classifications of antliracite mine em-ployees showing the classes involved in thisdemand : InsideClasses. the mines. Foremen 407 Assistants 296 Fire bosses 901 Miners 39,848 Miners laborers 31,217 ?Drivers and runners 11,607 ?Door boys 3,173 Pump men 953 ?Company men 9,186 ?Other employees 12,774 Total 110,362 OutsideClasses. the mines.
. Review of reviews and world's work. s instead of by the labor organization leadersthemselves. THE EIGHT-HOUE DAY, As to the demand for an eight-hour day forall company men, with no reduction in the pres-ent rate of wages, Mr. Roberts presents the fol-lowing classifications of antliracite mine em-ployees showing the classes involved in thisdemand : InsideClasses. the mines. Foremen 407 Assistants 296 Fire bosses 901 Miners 39,848 Miners laborers 31,217 ?Drivers and runners 11,607 ?Door boys 3,173 Pump men 953 ?Company men 9,186 ?Other employees 12,774 Total 110,362 OutsideClasses. the mines. Superintendents 143 Foremen 341 ?Blacksmiths and carpenters 2,518 Engineers and firemen 5,240 ?Slate-pickers (boys) 13,128 ?Slate-pickers (men) 5,599 Bookkeepers and clerks tSHl ?All other employees 24,319 Total 50,968 Grand totnl 161,330 The classes of cniployees marked with anasterisk, to the number of 75,705 out of a grandtotal of 161,.^U), are the classes to be benefitedby this demand, if al)0ut 500 engineers wlio. THE AREA INCLUDED IN HEAVY OUTLINE SHOWS THE POR-TION OF THE UNITED STATES IN WHICH IS CONSUMED90 PER CENT. OF THE ANTHRACITE COAL OUTPUT. work breaker time are added, we have a total of76,205, or per cent, of the total employeesin and around the collieries. The Coal StrikeCommission reported that the mine workers didnot work an average of eight hours a day. It iswell known that the United Mine Workers ofAmerica are pledged to establish the eight-hourday in all mines under their contfol, and, infact, have established it in those sections of thebituminous coal fields where the mine workersare well oi-ganized ; and in the present agitationthe contract miners, who are the skilled workersof the hard-coal industry, are championing thecause of the unskilled workers. (?AN THE INDUSTRY STAND A WAGE INCREASE ? As to the wages now actually received by an-thracite coal miners, it isasseited by Mr. Robertsthat, notwithstanding the advances granted in1900 and 1 902, toge
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