Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the State of Iowa Volume 10 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...side $2.25 additional shall be paid. Double shifting in entries 25 cents per yard extra. Breakthroughs between entries or rooms, when required to he cut, shall be paid for same as entries of similar width. nitrsnixo. finishing by taking np bottom or taking down top shall he 5-% cents an Inch measured from the top or bottom of the vein, as the cnse may he. nnd of sufficient width for roadway. This to apply to top nnd bottom of ordinary slate or clay material, but If of an unusually hard material then the price to be agreed upon locally, nnd falling to ngree the company to do the brushing. In which case the said brushing shall he kept up to within fifteen feet of the face. The mlnimnm width of any room shnll be twenty feet. Loading or unloading slate done by the miner 17 cents per car. DAT WAGE SCALE. Track layers, tlmbermen. cagers. per day. $2.5fi; drivers trip riders and water hauler, per day, $2.56; track layers and ttmbermen helpers, per dny. $2.3fi; boy couplers, per day. $1.52: oilers, per dny, $1.40; trappers, per day. $1.13: electric motormen and spike team drivers when engaged In regular switching, per day. J2.7O; all other Inside adult labor, per day. $2.36. Stable men to receive 12'4 per cent advance over present wages. Boy drivers may be used between partings, but when used at regular switchIn? they shnll he considered as men and receive men's wages. Where the company does Hie sharpening, the price of blacksmithing shall be 1 1-3 per cent of the gross earnings, provided that the miners' tools be given preference over all other work done by the blacksmith. The tools shall be sharpened In a workmanlike manner. Top Labor. The price for dumpers, chunkers, screening car men, and all other common top labor shall be advanced 12% per...