. The relationship between rates of pay and earnings and the cost of living in the anthracite industry of Pennsylvania . rT^!^^^p^^^^i~ri^[Lj J ——~-^^^^^^^^;^?^i^r^^Ci. !§: DATA FOR CHART ON RATES OF CONTRACT MINERS AND ON COST OF LIVING Wage Rates of Cost of Contract Living Miners Per Cent Per Cent. 1914 July, 1914 100 1915 Dec, 1914 102 1916 (After April) June, 1915 102 1917 (After April) Dec, 1915 103 1917 (After Nov.) June, 1916 109 1918 (After Nov.) Dec, 1916 117 1919 June, 1917 129 1920 (To April) Dec, 1917June, 1918Dec, 1918June, 1919Dec,
. The relationship between rates of pay and earnings and the cost of living in the anthracite industry of Pennsylvania . rT^!^^^p^^^^i~ri^[Lj J ——~-^^^^^^^^;^?^i^r^^Ci. !§: DATA FOR CHART ON RATES OF CONTRACT MINERS AND ON COST OF LIVING Wage Rates of Cost of Contract Living Miners Per Cent Per Cent. 1914 July, 1914 100 1915 Dec, 1914 102 1916 (After April) June, 1915 102 1917 (After April) Dec, 1915 103 1917 (After Nov.) June, 1916 109 1918 (After Nov.) Dec, 1916 117 1919 June, 1917 129 1920 (To April) Dec, 1917June, 1918Dec, 1918June, 1919Dec, 1919May, 1920 141156172175195204 In order to restore the rates of the contract miner to the samerelationship to thei cost of living that was established by thewage adjustment in 1912, it would be necessary to increase thepresent rates by per cent. A very common rate for coal (gangway and airway) in 1914,established in 1912, was close to $ per car. This rate, withthe subsequent increases, has now become $1,498, but in orderto raise it up to the point where the days earnings will buy thesame necessities of life that they would buy in 1914, it wouldhave
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