1.   Statistics for the next fifteen years are scarce, but under the tribute system copper miners were paid according to the selling price of the ore they raised.

2.   And the Russians, aware that they can no longer pay Siberian miners with surplus towels or pencils, have decided that they had better let the Japanese in.

3.   But, while Farm Belt members of Congress are comfortable paying farmers not to farm, they are skeptical about paying miners not to mine.

4.   The miners are paid well in the depressed region, but they have not been covered by life insurance.

5.   Decaying equipment is rarely replaced while most miners are seldom paid on time and in full.

6.   Government promises to pay the miners for the past several months seemed to encourage some to return to work.

7.   Government promises to pay the miners for the past several months have eased tensions.

8.   He said Russian society was decaying, and he blasted the government for failing to pay miners on strike in the Far East over back wages.

9.   As a result miners were not paid.

10.   But union spokesmen said it was not yet clear exactly what mechanism would be used to actually pay the miners.