Miners Demand Wage Hike or Looming Strike
District No. 10 of the United Mine Workers of America sets an October 1 deadline for a five percent pay raise.
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The reconvened biennial convention at Seattle Saturday of district No. 10, United Mine Workers of America, has voted unanimously to reaffirm the stand taken by the original commission, demanding a 5 per cent increase of wages. The convention represents 5000 coal miners. Means to enforce the demand for higher wages were left for the scale committee to decide, with the understanding, however, that an order to cease work in the mines of the 14 companies in the Washington Coal Operators’ association shall not be delayed beyond October 1 if the new scale is not granted. The union will seek the signing of a scale to run two years.
“an order to cease work in the mines... shall not be delayed beyond October 1 if the new scale is not granted.”
The struggle for wage increases and the threat of a work stoppage in Washington's coal industry echoes contemporary debates over labor rights and cost-of-living adjustments in the state's resource sectors.
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