Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-12-26
WINTER WINDS WHISTLE
THROUGH Miners CAMP

Cincinnati, Dec. 19.-Followfng q |
hearing he gave in his once to employ
ment agents Of the Cabin Creek CIV.
Va-) Coal Association, Mayor Hunt de-
clined to issue to them license to
operate an employment agency in Gin
clnnatl. At the mayors request Chas. |
costello, employment agent, and NJ. H.
f'raWley, his assistant, appeared be-
fore him, in connection with questions
arising out Of trouble experienced by
the men Friday night, when a crew
OF strike breakers they had recruited
was prevented from leaving the city
by the police and signs at their office
seized.
TWO representatives OF the miners
unions OF West Virginia were present
during the discussion, but took no part
IN it. Costello and 9FraWley informed
the mayor that they were under the
impression that they did not require
license, in view of the fact that they
charged no fee. The mayor declared
that he placed a different construc-
ton on the law, and said that they
could not conduct an agency unless he
granted them a license.
They produced what they declared
was an agreement entered into with
strike breakers to go to West Vir-
ginia. The document was headed
Strike on" in bold letters. It was
followed by schedule of wages and
paragraphs pledging the signer to go
to the coal fields at the wage SEIZED
uled to pay for his transportation.
1t strikes me~that this agreement
does not guarantee any protection to
The employee" said the mayor 1T is
one-s1dedt You have the employe
sign it and the company is protected.
But there Is nothing to assure the en-
ploye that he will receive the scale of
wages indicaed in the schedule"
The men left without indicating
what they would do in the matter
Patrolman Kohl, who innocently
caused the hating of the plans of the
recruiting agency to take thirteen men
to the West Virginia mines Friday
nigh, was exonerated of blame yester-
day. The orders had been miscon-
strued, coming from many sources, and
the officer had to use snap Judgment.
Before the matter could be remedied
the strike breakers had dispersed.
1t was said by the police last night
that the recruits we're being shippe.
out OF Covington, KY, over the C. &
o. road, and that ten of them had been
sent away from that city last nigh.
The instruction to the police on this
side of the river are to interview AID
i men sent to the mines before thew
Il leave the city, and explain to them the
Estrike situation. Police were at the
railroad station, btu did not see any
men leaving for the mines.
4 Says Detectives Beat Him.
Andrew Hunsaker, former saloonist
land shooting gallery proprietor. who
rooms at I'll West Sixth avenue, re-
turned to this city yesterday from
Huntington, W. Va. on freight trains
after he had journey there in a pri-
vate car as the guest of the mining
company, who was taking him and
seventeen other Cincinnatians to their
mines. Hunsaker escaped from the
train at Huntington and after much
difficulty got back to Cincinnati He
claims that when he ATTEMPTED to
leave the car he was set upon and
beaten by four private detectives. He
will appear before Mayor Hunt, and
complain of his treatment, he says.
i Progress in West Virginia,
| The victory Of the union miners at
Coalberg, at the mouth of Cabin Creek.
is one more step in advance. Some
three hundred of the boys will be able
to return to work under conditions ,
that they have never enjoyed since the
union was destroyed on Cabin Creek
in 1904.
But the fight is, not yet won.
On Paint Greek, and the great major
ity Of the mines on Cabin Creek, our
men are still fighting for an assurance
of conditions that will justify them to
return to work; conditions that can no
longer be claimed impossible exonbit- |
ant by the operators Of those mines in
] the face of the fact that operators, com
peting with hose oilers, have conceded
he scale asked by the miners and ex-