Coal Mine Labor in EuropeU.S. Government Printing Office, 1905 - 547 pages |
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accident affected amount Annales des mines annual arbitration Austria average number basis Belgium benefits Cause or object CAUSES AND RESULTS Charleroi coal and lignite coal fields coal mines computed conciliation disputes district Durham earnings employment expenditures explosives exports Extraits des annales federation females figures fire damp following table shows France German Empire ground Hainaut hours of labor included invalidity Jahrbuch des K. K. K. K. Ackerbau Ministeriums lignite mines long tons Lower Silesia membership ment metric tons miners mines de Belgique NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES number of persons operations organization output Pas-de-Calais payment pension period ployee product per employee Prussia quantity rate of wages reduction relief societies reported Salaried employees shafts shift sick Silesia South Wales statistics Statistisches Jahrbuch strike involving strikers strikes and lockouts tion total number trade unions travaux underground United Kingdom United States money Value per metric Wales workmen
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Page 529 - ... all workmen have been removed from the seam in which the shot is to be fired, and from all seams communicating with the shaft on the same level, except the men engaged in firing the shot, and...
Page 537 - By reason of any defect in the condition of the ways, works, machinery, or plant connected with or used in the business of the employer...
Page 521 - ... seem expedient for the purpose of enabling the parties to the difference to meet together by themselves or their representatives under the presidency of a chairman mutually agreed upon or nominated by the Board of Trade or by some other person or body, with a view to the amicable settlement of the difference...
Page 521 - Where a difference exists or is apprehended between an employer, or any class of employers, and workmen, or between different classes of workmen...
Page 521 - If a settlement of the difference is effected either by conciliation or by arbitration a memorandum of the terms thereof shall be drawn up and signed by the parties or their representatives, and a copy thereof shall be delivered to and kept by the Board of Trade.
Page 521 - The Arbitration Act, 1889, shall not apply to the settlement by arbitration of any difference or dispute to which this act applies, but any such arbitration proceedings shall be conducted in accordance with such of the provisions of the said act, or such of the regulations of any conciliation board, or under such other rules or regulations as may be mutually agreed upon by the parties to the difference or dispute.
Page 220 - ... operator shall be calculated by the application of the rules and customs in virtue of which these pensions were formerly accorded. If the pension secured from payments made in the execution of article 2 falls below the amount calculated for the pensions just mentioned, the necessary balance shall be a charge on the operator. ART. 23. From and after the date on which this act takes effect, the provident societies heretofore organized by the workers and salaried employees for the purpose of granting...
Page 521 - If it appears to the board of trade that in any district or trade adequate means do not exist for having disputes submitted to a conciliation board for the district or trade, they may appoint any person or persons to inquire into the conditions of the district or trade...
Page 513 - That when at any meeting of the board the number of employers and workmen is unequal, all shall have the right of fully entering into the discussion of any matters brought before them, but only an equal number of each shall vote. The withdrawal of the members of whichever body may be in excess, to be by lot.
Page 515 - The secretaries shall, on the written application of either of the parties made by the chairman and secretary of either party for an alteration in the rate of wages, or an alteration of these rules or for any of the objects mentioned in Clause 4...