The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-12-21
B0bRD
ISSUES REPORT
Covering Its Work During the
Three Years to Close
April Next.

The Board of Consultation, estab-
lished by the Anthracite Strike Com
mission TO settle disputes between
the mine workers and the operators,
has Issued a report covering the first
three years of i.s work. The volume
contains 335 pages ana gives full
account of the Boards activities in
the way OF mediation.
In the Forthcoming discussion be-
tween the operators and the mine
workers this record of the Concilia-
ton Board Will take an importanf
part; the tribunal will cease to exist
after April I If the miners win their
point One of the demands recently
submitted to the union conference a.
Scranton calls for the abolition of
the Board.
At the end of the report is a SUM
mary showing the disposition of the
cases that came up for decision. One
hundred and fifty complaints wer"
submitted IN the three years. OF
these II were pending at the end
of the third year. leaving one humid
red and thirty-six disposed OF within
the period covered by the report.
Seventy-four were mot sustained" or
withdrawn eleven were sustain
cd eight were PARTIALLY sustain
ed or compromised" and fourteen
were settled through the Influence OF
the Board. Nine grievances, SUB
nlitted by men who thought employ
naent had been unjustIy refused
them, were not sustained, but the
Board recommended that employ
ment be given to them. OF the twen-
.ty grievances passed upon by an UNI
ptre, four were sustained.
In the time that has passed since
the figures were gathered for this Of
fcia report. the complaints have
been much less frequent than they
were before. This is taken as an In |
dication that the feeling between this
mine workers and the operators has
improved. The records OF the Board
from the time of its formation up te
date, show total of 172 cases, 50 !
that only 20 complaints have been
received since March 81. 1906, |
against $50 before then.
The Cancellation Board is conf |
posed of three representatives of the |
miners and three representatives OF |
The scope of it's work .
was broadly defined by the Anthra- |
cite Strike Commission. and the !
Board itself adopted set of rules |
10 govern its procedure. Any mine
worker in the entire region. if he !
thinks he has grievance. and has
failed to obtain satisfaction from thu
official directly over him, may lay
his grievance before the Board. wit.
nesses are called. evidence is taken
and opportunity is given to each side
to present arguments. majority
vote OF the Board is sufficient for q
verdict, If there is an even split"
Of the six members. the case is re-
rerred TO an umpire appointed by a
Judge of the Third Federal circuit.
rhe umpire's decision is final.
Recently the Board announced a
,lean docket having disposed of all
he cases laid before it.
In the spring of 1906, when the
award OF tho Strike Commission eX-
pred. the miners committee de-
handed that the Cancellation Board
1e done away with. They proposed
mother scheme. by which the region
you'd be divided into districts and
ieries of minor arbitration tribunals
,reated. To this the operators ref
,lied by reviewing the work of the
Board. calling attention to the dis
latch with which it had disposed OF
Grievances and to the peaceful con.
Litious which it had brought about
rhe result was that the award of the /
strike Commission was extended for
mother three years, until April i
900. still leaving the Cancellation
soard as preventive of trouble in
he anthracite region. :