Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-04
T..EY CANNOT AGREE.
Some of the Miners Disputes are Still
Unsettled.

Pottsviile, Pa, August SIT is doubt
full whether the great labor problems
awaiting adjustment in the anthracite
region will ever be settled by the Con-
Citation Board. The coal companies
have three representatives on the board
and so have the miners. On every i'm
portant question they are a tie and one
of the members admitted that it was
unlikely that they would be able to
agree on an umpire, as provided by the
commission award.
This makes the whole proceedings a
farce" he said. In this case it is init
mated that the miners will resort to ex-
IRENE measures for redress for their
grievances.
Superintendents Roland and Kudlick,
who are charged with discriminating
against strikers formerly employed by
Coke Brothers & Company, testified be-
fore the commission today that the
reason the men were refused employ
ment was because they We're accused
of rioting during the strike. The board
adjourned this evening, to meet again
next Thursday at Pottsville.
The board adopted the following
resolu tions:-
Whereas, Strikes are occurring
throughout the anthracite region in
violation of the terms Of the award of
the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission,
which was accepted by both employer
and employee: and
Whereas. The Board of Concilia ton
appointed under the provisions Of the
saiG award provided in Rule 4: Tnas-
D1y1Hh no nj Coal ri a
Commission in their award provided
that no suspension of work shall take
place pending the adjudication of any
matter brought before the board for
adjustment. and that no lockouts or
strikes shall be necessary, the Board of
Cancellation will not take up or con-
slider any question referred to it unless
the employees return to work. with the
understanding that if the Board of
Cancellation are Unsuitable the adjust
ment shall be retroactive
Therefore, Be it resolved by the
Board of Cancellation that where a
strike occurred or shall occur at any
colliery coming under the award. the
organizatio representing the majority
of the mine workers shall insist that
the employees of the particular colliery
where said strikes shall have occurred
return to work. and as a penalty for
having violated the provisions of the
award grievance shall not be adjusted
by the Board of Cancellation"
There are upward of sixty grievances
before the board. These are all from
the Schuyllxill and Lehigh regions
None have vet been presented from the
Luzerne and Lackawanna districts, nor
viii there be until most of those now
in hand are disposed of. At least. that
is the program of the United Mine
Workers in those districts at this time
In the meanwhile a number of diff
ferences in the Lackawanna region
have been amicably adjusted without
recourse to the commission. So reports
President Nocholls, of District No. /,
which embraces the Lackawanna
region.
President Fahy, of the Ninth, or
Schuykill, District, is not in as COM
placent a mood as is his colleague, for
he experiences some difficulty in the
disposition of the business from his
district before the board. He remarked
with much impa tience tonight that
there will be something doing soon"
There was considerable menace in that
laconic sentence. More than that he
would not say.