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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
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    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1918-05-15


    • Shaft miners in demand - city agency gets call for men at $5 a day

    • 1918

    • Shaft miners in demand - city agency gets call for men at $5 a day - Shaft miners for the Electric Point mine have been in demand at the municipal employment agency at $5 a day and stope miners at $4.50 a day. Other calls received were road...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1918-05-15
    • Northwest history.Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-01-03


    • With miners' strike over, horizon is not so dark as has been painted

    • 1919

    • With miners' strike over, horizon is not so dark as has been painted.
      Helena, Mont., March 1.-Now that the strike of Butte miners is a thing of the past, by the middle of March it should be known whether unemployment in Montana is to assume an...
    • Northwest history.Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-01-03
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-02-17


    • Butte miners returning to work

    • 1919

    • Butte miners returning to work.
      Dinner bucket parade again started-expect all mines to reopen. Butte, Mont., Feb. 17.-"The dinner bucket parade of miners, which procession halted here on Feb. 7, when members of the Butte Metal Miners union...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-02-17
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1920-07-31


    • Boost the wages of coal miners

    • 1920

    • Boost the wages of coal miners.
      Seattle, July 30.-Wage increases of about 20 per cent for contract labor and $1 a day for day labor over the scale terminated last October, are granted Washington state coal miners under the terms of an agreement...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1920-07-31
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1920-09-10


    • Discuss coal miners' demand for wage boost

    • 1920

    • Discuss coal miners' demand for wage boost.
      Seattle, Sept. 9.-Demands of Washington coal miners for a flat increase of $1.50 a day in the wage scale of miners employed by the day were discussed at a meeting here this afternoon of representatives...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1920-09-10
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1918-07-12


    • Give big boost to miners' pay - employes in Coeur d'Alene region will receive $5.25- increase of 50 cents - $1,277,500 in a year - affects 7000 by estimate- advance was voluntary - surprised beneficiaries

    • 1918

    • Give big boost to miners' pay - employes in Coeur d'Alene region will receive $5.25- increase of 50 cents - $1,277,500 in a year - affects 7000 by estimate- advance was voluntary - surprised beneficiaries - The wages of miners employed in the Coeur...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1918-07-12
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1918-11-01


    • Miners get wage boost - average increase of dollar a day granted - laborers outside mines get largest raise, effective today

    • 1918

    • Miners get wage boost - average increase of dollar a day granted - laborers outside mines get largest raise, effective today - An average wage increase of $1 a day was granted anthracite coal miners by Fuel Administration Garfield today, effective...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1918-11-01
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-01-13


    • Many miners are leaving Butte

    • 1919

    • Many miners are leaving Butte.
      Hundred a day for last 10 days is report of railroad men. Butte, Mont., Jan. 13.-More than a hundred miners have left Butte every day for the Pacific coast and other sections of the country during the past week or...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-01-13
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-04-19


    • Wage boost is rumored by Coeur d'Alene men

    • 1919

    • Wage boost is rumored by Coeur d'Alene men.
      Talk Butte scale-men are hard to get now, is report current. Rumors are current on the streets of Wallace that a raise in wages is contemplated for the purpose of attracting experienced miners to the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-04-19
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-12-17


    • Montana miners return to work

    • 1919

    • Montana miners return to work.
      Over 1000 in Cascade Field back-Billings workers to resume today. Great Falls, Mont., Dec. 16.-More than 1000 miners in the Cascade field returned to work today in the camps at Tracy, Sand Coulee, Stockett and...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-12-17
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-12-22


    • Cle Elum miners are back to work

    • 1919

    • Cle Elum miners are back to work.
      Forty present on job today and others will return later this week. Ellensburg, Wash., Dec. 22.-Approximately 40 per cent of the striking coal miners of the Cle Elum and Roslyn fields, near here, returned to work...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-12-22
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1920-01-10


    • Miners make high earnings

    • 1920

    • Miners make high earnings.
      Men working in the Morning mine in the Coeur d'Alenes for the Federal Mining and Smelting company averaged as high as $10.09 a day, working on the contract system, during the last 15 days of December, according to the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1920-01-10
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1936-10-08


    • Butte miners to accept contracts.

    • 1936

    • Butte miners to accept contracts. - Any threat of labor difficulties between the Anaconda Copper company and the workers who mine "the richest hill on earth" faded early today when union officials announced Butte miners and engineers and Great...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1936-10-08
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1937-01-23


    • Miners wages upped.

    • 1937

    • Miners wages upped. - Miners and smeltermen employed by the A. C. M. in Butte, Anaconda and Great Falls received a pay increase of 25 cents per day on January 21, the price of copper having remained 11.5 cents a pound or better for a 30-day period.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1937-01-23
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1937-02-23


    • Union miners demand raise.

    • 1937

    • Union miners demand raise. - Union miners of the Coeur d'Alene district are demanding an increase of $1 per day in wages because of the recent advances in metal prices. The demands of the International Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers' union were...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1937-02-23
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1937-12-31


    • Miners to take 50-cent cut.

    • 1937

    • Miners to take 50-cent cut. - The payroll of 3265 men will be affected January 1 by pay reductions of 50 cents per day for miners in the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating company; Federal Mining and Smelting company; Hecla Mining...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1937-12-31
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1938-01-01


    • Miners' pay cut in effect today.

    • 1938

    • Miners' pay cut in effect today. - Two thousand dollars a day was lopped off the pay of miners of the Coeur d'Alenes, by the action of the big companies in the Coeur d'Alenes which today cut wages 50 cents a man. The action of the companies in...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1938-01-01

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