Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-05-16
Weight and Measure
at Mckinley S Mines

Ln0 SLf1K0 SlLuaLlOn al The MOUTH
coal mine at Moundsville. J. C. Nc
Kinley still seems to have the courts
and officers of the law dancing to his
beck and call. Men are in Jail and
others are being bounded because they
dared to ask for the protection sup
posedly given them by the law of the
state, and Prosecuting Attorney Carri-
ga.i does not seem interested in en-
forcing the law against J. C. Mckinley.
It is reported at Moundsville that
on May deputy mine Inspector
called to inspect the mine, but that
the superintendent told him that they
were not ready for him to inspect it,
and that he passed on without inspect
ing it. The people of Moundsville
seem inclined to think that the proper
time to inspect mine would be when
the owners were not ready, but this
does not seem to be the case.
Escaped from Sheriff.
There is one man whom J. G: Nc
Kinley has been very anxious always
to slam into jail-Joe Kirk. Not that
Joe is desperado. for on the con
trary, he is modest, well behaving
man, a good husband, the father of
six children and the owner Of his
home in Moundsville. But Joe is the
secretary of the union, and Mckinley
figures that with Joe out of the way
he could the more easily crush the
balance of the men. So he has had
his tools, the sheriff and his deputies,
hunt Joe, who has been living on the
other side of the river, recently, for
his health.
The other day. Joe slipped quietly
into Moundsville and went to the court
house to personally attend to some
matters connected with his property.
and as he was going out, the sheriff
and a couple Of deputies arrested.
him. While Joe was arranging to get,
bond, he changed his mind and left
the building. While the sheriff was
searching the river front that night,
Joe was sleeping peacefully at home
in Moundsville, with his family, and
in the morning, he again quietly re-
turned to Ohio.
The Mound city mine is partially
working with non-unionists brought
up from McKinley's Panama mine.
Wonderful Weights.
"I have done some measuring about
the Richland coal mine," said a reli-
able man to reporter, "and l want
to say that the weighing and measur-
ing and screening at the mine are
wonderful exhibitions. At SIX dlffe:-
emit times I measured coal that came
through the screen, and at each time
/ found pieces of coal that measured
~ inches each way. This is quite
remarkable when it is remembered
that these pieces came through a
screen which the law says Is an inch
and a quarter. The men are paid
only for the coal that fails TO fall
the screen. Anything that
falls through they receive no pay for.
It is bad enough when they are COM
PEELED to dig all coal less than an
inch and quarter for nothing, but 1t
is going some when Mr.. Mckinley
arrange it so that his screen is elastic
enough to let through pieces 21s
inches in each direction. There is a
law against this, but judges and oth-
GERS of the law do not seem to care
to enforce any law against Mr.. Nc
Kinley.
"Another thing I have noticed. There
is a 3Iton car used for hauling coal
Yet so wierd is the Mckinley system
of measuring and weighing that these
cars will run in one day all the way
from 1000 to 1900 pounds, and on
another day from 1900 to $500. Tho
3-ton cars, in union mine, will run
from $500 to 1000 pounds. There is a
state law which provides that the
miners shall have checkweighman
to represent their interests and see
that the company's idea Of the weight
of car of coal is not calculated to
cheat the men, but Mr.. Mckinley
seems to be above he law"
Injunctions.
The strike is being drawn out SIM
ply because Judge Nesbit*'s injunc-
ton is having the desired effect OF
helping Mckinley. This man, 'Wao
brushes humanity to the best of his
ability at every opportunity, could go
to our court and secure from Judge
Nesbitt- an Injunction which ties the
hands of the miners and compels
them to submit to the Mckinley
slavery.
There is no question but that the
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