30-HOUR WEEK IS OBJECTIVE OF AMERICAN MINERS
NEW YORK, Oct, 12.
The annual conference of the United Mine Workers of America to-day approved a wage policy calling for a general pay increase, a shorter working week, an increased royalty fund, and other improvements. The conference’s wage-scale committee referred to 'the union president, Mr John L. Lewis, and the national policy committtee, resolutions which would reduce the working week to 30 hours, -increase the royalty payment to the welfare fund from 20 cents to 40 cents a ton, increase annual vacation pay from 100 dollars to 200, lengthen the holiday from one week to two; extend the paid lunch period from 30 minutes to an hour, and require mine owners to pay for all supplies of equipment and much of the mining work which is not now compensated.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 October 1948, Page 8
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