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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt:...the law (Rail and River Coal Co. v. Yaple, 35 Sup. Ct. 359, Feb. 23, 1915). The state's attorney-general, however, rendered an opinion that coal going over the screen could be paid for at a different rate from coal going through the screen, but the strikers declined to accept such a split rate. No attempts were made to run the mines with strike-breakers and no eases of violence were reported. In January, when the operators decided to evict men from company houses and to import strike-breakers, the arrival of two mediators from the Federal Department of Labor caused them to defer this policy. In April a conference of the two sides was called by the Government. The Federal mediators and the chief mine inspector of the state, representing the governor, aided the two parties in coming to a satisfactory agreement. The operators conceded the rate of payment per ton asked by the men and the miners agreed to certain changes in working conditions which it was believed would decrease the danger of local strikes. (See also XVIII, Mining and Ore Dressing.) Through the efforts of the manufacturers of building materials a controversy between Chicago contractors and the principal building trades, which had lasted for more than three months, was settled in July by arbitration. The point at issue which had previously prevented agreement seems to have been the insistence of the carpenters that they would work only on materials furnished locally. As a result the materials manufacturers closed all their plants of every description throughout Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Wisconsin so that no work could be done independently, and then undertook to arbitrate the differences between the unions and the contractors' association. This arbitration was successful. The unions conceded th...