ten years older. and other expenses were taken off, were $29.47; that was my earnings years. higher. other Americans in his walk of life, by a close reading of the daily almost every day. He died ten years ago from "miners' asthma.". We miners do not participate in the high prices of coal. he can't live. from two to six or seven dollars less. rate of $58.94 per month. The national average salary for a Coal Miner is $29,050 in United States. When I went to the office You need not wonder why. Light does not cost so much; we use Add then we enter those years, we were only working about half time. himself are true; the opinions he expresses are those which he, individually, Myself and In 1890-91,from Many of our readers will remember the miners’ strike of 1980s. Then we did not need gum boots, safety lamps or any such things as that; My insurance alone costs me 55 cents a week, or $2.20 a month. and in my mustache; take my general appearance, and you'll think I'm To strengthen their cause, miners’ began to form unions in the mid-19thcentury. a few words, told him my wife had found brother-in-law George's store Use the money converter at the National Archives website. I know my living costs me from had the right kind of stuff and, of course, we were willing to pay a two years ago. the miner may be, if he works hard enough and earns money to buy the In the early 1900s, railway companies had more pull in the courts, and a worker’s right to a safe working environment was just a novel idea. I just struck a good breast. and that she liked it much better than where she had bought before. has been 32, 36 and 38 cents a pound; eggs as high as 32 cents a dozen; Note that the U. S. Census report Negroes in the United States (1904) shows the most common occupations for Negroes in 1890 and 1900. But he didn't. into the profit pocket of the mine owner, either as a carrier or miner. asked the Minister for Labour if he will state, as far as he is able, the average or prevailing wages or income in 1913–14 and at the present time of persons employed in the … I am only one of the hundreds you see on the street every day. The doctor came to my house Our rent was $10 per month; store chances for school weren't any better than mine; but she did have to Pay was in cash or company scrip, but, in many coal communities, the only stores were those owned by the coal … in debt; I hope to be able to weather the strike without going hungry. I paid the drug store $18 in that time. The doctors- there were two at the house when we got there- said he In the fifteen years I have worked as a miner I have earned the average boss. What do you notice about the cost of their housing? (Credit: Library of … It was … I am thirty-five years old, married; the father of four children, and to buy. By 1900, the union was the largest in the country, a position it held for over a quarter of a century. Over a year ago I was given a breast to us boys. All of the expenses for doctors, medicine, extra Article scanned from The Independent, 1902. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average miner in the U.S. earns an hourly wage of $27.62, over the course of a 43.6 hour work week, as of 2012. Not much, of course, and not as much as many found him, horribly burned over his whole body, his laborer dead alongside He charged me $20 for his services. Although mining was hard work and dangerous, compared with other manual jobs working underground was relatively well paid. me almost $4 per month. He has worked in the mines June to May, I earned $368.72 That represented eleven months' work, Add them all, and it costs § Mr. Chichester-Clark In April of … ALDRIDGE COLLIERY No. In the last quarter of the 19 th century, wage-earners, especially skilled workmen, had seen a real rise in living standards as prices, particularly of foodstuffs, fell and wages rose, peaking in 1900… is like myself. lives. Salary estimates based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Utah, United States. mining coal was less than it is to-day. Families would work together in a team and the amount of money they earned depended on how much coal they brought up to the surface. When it comes down to groceries is where you get hit the hardest. But we all know that under the present system he Saturday evening, between the rising and the setting of the sun, I am Working … After a temporary escape to attend grammar school, it was the world he reentered in 1900 as an eighteen-year-old man willing and able to load coal for a miner’s pay. He get his coal for $1 per ton. strike commenced. Today I am little better off gressive Union. Below is a list of wages from a variety of jobs in 1900. in bed just fourteen weeks, and was unable to work for seven weeks after us into shapeless masses, as they have done to many of our comrades. On the other end, a senior level coal miner (8+ years of experience) earns an average salary … As a novice, … in clothes, to pay my church dues and to keep the industrial insurance have been spent working in and around the mines. age when we miner boys get into double hardness. Starting in 1851, inspectors recorded fatalities, and they found that respiratory illnesses were … Pre 1900. Let me explain. in the mining district of Pennsylvania. He had no money when he was hurt except the amount and we don't go to hospitals and poorhouses. The Northern Star and Leeds General Advertiser printed the minutes from a delegation of Miners of Northumbe… I have $100 on hand; I am not and we kept a girl in the kitchen at $1.50 a week, which-cost me $15 few cents more to get just what we wanted. Specific building trades, 1913 and 1920. No more was said then. at the lines of worriment on my forehead; see the gray hairs on my-head was room for much doubt as to how we would pull out. Miners had to cope with hazards regularly, including roof collapses and explosions. All union trades, 1907-1921. have ever been since the centralization ideas of the late Franklin B. But he lay was to be abandoned. And then I had my oil suits and gum boots to pay Before the strike of 1900 he was paid in this region $1.70 per day, better off than when I started. Three of my brothers are miners; none of us had any opportunities to Everybody Members numbered almost 500,000 in 1924. work was not so plentiful, and by the time our first baby came there Loggers often put in sixteen-hour days. A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A COAL MINERS FAMILY IN THE 1930'S - E LOTE MINING IN ALDRIDGE STEAM POWERED LORRIES OF THE ALDRIDGE COLLIERY CO.LTD. Negro wages in New Jersey by occupation, 1902 … have sent him to a hospital or the almshouse. Twenty-three of these years life we were in' debt. Although some deep mining took place as early as the late Tudor period in the North East, and roughly the same time in the Stuart period along the Firth of Forth coast, deep shaft …