The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-11-24
LABOR NOTES

was sent to jail for sixty days ana
fined 500. They were accused of
having an exposed light in part of
mine where only locked safety lamps
we're permitted.
Reports from the Somerset-Myers-
dale, Fairmont, Ohio No. s and the
Cumberland fields indicate that the
mines there are running to about
ninety per cent capacity, with an ur-
gent demand for both cars and men.
In the central Pennsylvania district
the mines are working fairly well, de-
spite a disposition to curtail produc-
tion, owing to the wage scale SQUAD
bile.
William Little has entered the lists
as a candidate for president OF Dis
Jrict No. 5, United .dine Workers,
against Francis Feehan. Little, for
number of years, was a member OF
the International executive board.
President Feehan's friends say there
is not the slightest doubt of his re-
election by a big majority.
The new West Waynesburg tin
mills, it is said, will begin operations
about the 18th of November, in full
blast, with not less than $50 work
men employed. Already orders for
new tin are being received, so we are
informed. d.-Connellsville Courier.
The Greer tin plant of the Ameri-
can Sheet and Tin Plate Company, at
new Castle, has resumed operations
and Is on in full for the first time
since the strike of the tin workers
last July. At the Sherango mill 21
OF the 30 hot mills are working and
several others will soon be started.
The United States Steel Corpora
ton recently paid to the Hammond
Coal Company s2,O0o,o00 for coal
mines and coal lands in the Danville,
H., district. The Hammond proper
ties include the Kelly mines at Dan
vile. These were sold for s1,550, 900
and the remaining 100000 was paid
for coal lands in the same district
The total land transferred is $1,000
acres. In addition to this the steel
people have obtained 10000 acres
from other owners.
The Bessemer department Of the
Homestead steel works was put in op-
Grafton Monday for the first time
since it closed several years ago.
Four hundred men were given employ
ment. The equipment consists Of two
10-inch open hearth converters and
three cupolas.
Oklahoma, Okla; Ada, Okla; Well
ington, Kan; Elcampo, Tex; Kauf-
man, Tex; Ashland, Ore; Arlington,
Wash; Modesto, Cal.; McCurUain,
Okla; Winfield, Kan; Montrose,
Colo; Paris, Tex; Deer Lodge,
Mont; Naperville, ILL.,; Blairmore,
Alta, Can; Coleman, Alta, Can;
Randolph, Mass. Total, II local
unions chartered in October.
The Jones G Laughlin Steel Com
pany is now refusing all orders at its
plants owing to the demand for its
products being greatly in excess o.
the possible supply. Many orders
have been placed for future delivery
and unit, the company is able to
catch up with it's orders all new work
will be refused
Announcement was made Monday
that the company had let a contract
for the erection of a wharf and ice
breakers at AlNquippa TO the Enter
prise Contracting Company of Pitts
burg to cost about $4,000. The work
is to be completed within 100 days
and will afford facilities for extensive
shipments by water.
The Pitusburg & Lake Erie Railroad
has agreed to build a subway under
its tracks at the Aliquippa station to
run into the Jones & Laughlin plant.
Thomas Lynch, president of the H.
C. Frick Coke Company, will neither
deny nor affirm the report that the
Frick coke interests have definitely
decided to make a general advance in
Connellsville coke wages January l.,
ment will be made on Christmas day.
The Fricl company has invariably
led in changes in the wage scale,
which is natural, on account of its
controlling more than half the total
operations in the Connellsville and
Lower Connellsville regions.
An advance has certainly been indi-
Gated by conditions. Coke is now
scarcer than ever and men are in ur-
gent demand. If wages are advanced
the change will probably be to restore
the 1907 scale. The entire scale
covers many jobs, but the base of the
scale is the rate, per 100 bushels, for
mining and loading room and rib coal.
The dates of the past five scales, with
the mining rate, have been as fol-
lows: March 1, 1900, s1.25; January
1, 1908, S1.10; March 1, 1905, $1.20;
March !, 1907, $1.S5; January 1, 1908,
S1.20.
Homer B. Keller, a former tin
worker of New Castle, was killed by
the cars in Pittsburg last Thursday
night. The deceased, who was quite
we'll known in New Castle, was run
down and killed by train on the
Pittsburg & Lake Erie Railroad, his
remains being found about o'clock
at niglH and removed to the Pittsburg
morgue, where letter signed Sarah,