Excerpt from The Anthracite Strike of 1922: A Chronological Statement of the Communications and Negotiations Between the Hard Coal Operators and the United Mine Workers of America The investigation shows that the average hourly earnings of all wage earners were cents in June, 1914, and rose to cents in October, 1921, an increase of 162 per cent. Excluding contract miners, who are paid on a different basis from ordinary workers and whose earnings tend to swell the average, this increase is from cents to cents, or 166 per cent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.