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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
  • Subjects: Miners -- Employment -- Pacific
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    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-07-03


    • Go into canada for more miners.

    • 1919

    • Go into canada for more miners. - Shortage calls for hustling on part of operators -- no hard lines drawn. - A shortage of labor exists throughout the Coeur d'Alenes and mine owners of the district are seeking men from British Columbia and other...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-07-03
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1937-02-20


    • Montana miners get pay boost.

    • 1937

    • Montana miners get pay boost. - Wages in the mines, smelters and refineries of the Anaconda company, it was announced today, will be advanced 25 cents a day tomorrow, as a result of the 13-cent price of copper. This advance brings the minimum wage...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1937-02-20
    • 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. 1920-04-22


    • Montana miners are given raise

    • 1920

    • Montana miners are given raise.
      Billings, Mont., April 21.-An agreement was reached today by conferees of the Montana Coal Operators association and the United Mine Workers regarding the fderal coal commission's wage awards. The agreement,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1920-04-22
    • 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. 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. 1919-01-13


    • 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. 1919-02-17


    • 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. 1919-10-17


    • Many miners back at work

    • 1919

    • Many miners back at work.
      Nearly 600 return in Coeur d'Alenes-two mills resume operations. Five hundred to 600 men have returned to work in the Coeur d'Alene mines, which were tired up by a strike. This is not half of the normal working forces,...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-10-17
    • Northwest history.Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-10-23


    • Miners flock to resume work

    • 1919

    • Miners flock to resume work.
      Many returning to Coeur d'Alenes to work in mines after strike. Nine hundred men have gone to work in the Coeur d'Alene mines since the strike was declared off, and others are going back daily. Probably 400 or 500...
    • Northwest history.Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-10-23
    • 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.1933-06-08


    • Increase miners' wages 50 cents.

    • 1933

    • Increase miners' wages 50 cents. - A raise of 50 cents a day in the wage scale of employees of the Federal Mining and Smelting company at its Morning mine in the Coeur d'Alenes is equivalent to approximately $36,000 additional wager per year to the...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages.1933-06-08
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-06-10


    • Coeur d'Alene companies deny petition of workers -- want wage boost.

    • 1919

    • Coeur d'Alene companies deny petition of workers -- want wage boost. - The associated mining companies of the Coeur d'Alenes today issued a statement to their employes refusing them a hearing on their demand for an increase in pay and to operate on...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-06-10
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1937-10-29


    • Low copper price cuts miners' pay.

    • 1937

    • Low copper price cuts miners' pay. - Wages of 12,000 men employed in the mines, smelters and refineries of the Anaconda Copper company in butte, Anaconda and Great Falls were reduced 25 cents per shift today.
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1937-10-29
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-02-18


    • Butte whistles as mines resume; thousands back

    • 1919

    • Butte whistles as mines resume; thousands back.
      Eleven thousand miners will be back on job tonight. Butte, Mont., Feb. 18.-Choruses of whistles, shrill, depp and medium, loudly proclaimed to the citizens of Butte this morning that normal times...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Employment & wages. 1919-02-18

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