The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-01-24
Picked Up in Capital
of the Buckeye State


Columbus. - Especially - President
Frank J. Hayes and nine other Ofncials
and members OF the United Mine
Workers of America were ordered by
the United States supreme court to
show cause why they should not be
declared in contempt of court for Vio-
lating injunctions restraining repre-
sentatives of the organization from at
tempting to organize employees of the
Hitchman Coal & Coke Co. OF Wheel
ing. W. Va.
Those named in the proceedings
are: President Hayes, Vice President
John L. Lewis and Secretary-Treas-
urer William Green of Ohio of the
United Mine Workers; John Moore of
Columbus. o., president of District No.
s; William Roy of Bridgeport, o., a
sub-district president, and Joe Krea-
mer, ID. w. Lewis, Peter Bartoric,
Mike Stefanski and Steve Kachinsky,
all Of Marshall county, West Virginia.
The court declined to order Jacob
Semarkavick, C. NJ. McCabe, Tom
Bowes, Orgie Freeman, Jim Murray
and Jim Barton, also of Marshall coun.
ty, as asked in the moving petition.
The contempt proceedings are an
outgrowth of years of Injunction legis
lation between the miners union and
the coal company. 70
In 1907 Federal Judge Dayton in
West Virginia declared the miners
union an illegal organization and is.
sued broad injunctions prohibiting
peaceful picketing" or persuasion OF
the company's employees to join the
union.
The case was appealed and higher
court dismissed the injunctions and
reversed the decision that the miners
organization was illegal. In bringing
the contempt petition the coal com.
pany represented that because of in.
Limitations and threats the company's
Glendale mine was idle for lack OF
worl1men and that the Hinchman mine
had little more than one-third of its
force at work.
Soldiers Wives Make Complaints.
Ohio local draft boards are flooded
with appeals from soldiers wives who
are in want, and who report that their
war allotments of money from their
husbands salaries and the govern.
ment are not being sent them.
They want something done to rem
edy the delay at Washington. The
draft boards are forwarding the ap-
peals with which they are besieged to
state draft headquarters.
The volume of appeals from the
soldiers dependents has become SC
large that it is announced the state
draft authorities and Governor James
| M. Cox are laying the nature of the
case before Washington in an effort
to have the allotments expedited to
relieve the winter needs of the wives
children and other dependents oi
Ohio's fighting sons.
1t is understood Ohio is not alone
in being confronted with the allot
ment tangle, but that the delay is af
fecting other states equally.
Under the first draft call, loca
boards were instructed by Washington
that the government, through the in
surance bureau, would make allotment
arrangements. When a private speci
fed he wanted half his $50 month
sent his wife, the government would
arrange to forward that to the wife di.
rect, holding it out Of the soldiers
pay, and also adding SIS on its own
account, with further federal allot'
ments for children.
On the basis of that arrangement
some married men with dependents
went into service without claiming
exemption, because they felt a certain
amount of support thus would be pro.
vided their dependents. Local boards
gave consideration to this $50 month
the wife would receive in estimating
whether a mans going would deprive
his wife Of reasonable support"
Now. according to the appeals from
families, the money is not arriving
The soldier in the camp can't send it.
because the government holds it out
of his pay to forward to the family
irect.
That Is the way the situation is de
scribed at the state draft headQuar
ters, on the basis of information for
warded from local boards in all sec
tions Of the state.
Beyond the fact that the delay is In
Washington in the war risk bureau
no explanation of the trouble is vol
unteered here. But Ohio officials have
come to the point where they want
to make sure that the appeals of the
soldiers families are needed at Wash
ington. and so will bring the question
to the attention Of the authorities.
Ice Makers Conserve Fuel.
With artificial ice plants in several
sections Of the state falling in line
with the request Of the food and fuel
administrations that as many plants
be eliminated as possible to conserve
fuel and ammonia, the question was
considered at conference of repre-
sentatives of II Columbus companies
AS result, 1t is expected number
Of Columbus plants will suspend pei
cent of their capacities.
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To Talk New Party.
An echo of the Chicago political
conference last summer, at which
formation Of a new national party was
proposed, to be established by q com