The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-12-05

In the Pennsylvania district OF
the MonongaheIa railway on Sat
! urdRy loaded liz cars Of coal.
Mining Conditions
Little encouragement can be
! cleaned with sthe opening OF the
present week in the coal mining
industry in the Fairmont region.
A heavy snow is falling. The
wintry weather may mean the
burning OF more. coal in tire east
and consequently after tie uncon-
signed loads are moved conditions
will be paved for more business.
Only 81 mines ire working to-
day or just one more than on Sat
urday. OF that number there are
A on the Nonongah division, B.
] & o.. 4 on the Western Maryland
and 9 on the Monongahela. Con-
F: ditious continue to be hI~d hit
! along SCOTS Run and Mays
empty order was down to ~, al
though there are perhaps some
empties left over from Saturdays
order.
Empties ordered today in the
region aggregated 1921, which
are distributed as follows: Mon
ongah division. 634; Western
Maryland, 14S; Monongahela, 245.
SIxty-eight empties are ordered by
the mines along the Charleston
division, B. & o., today while the
! operations along the M~onongahela
in Pennsylvania ordered 2A5 emp
ties.
United Mine Workers
Nick Aiella, president Of sub
4! district 4. Is busy at the local office
today.
! Patrick Buckley. vice president
OF sub district 4, is at Falrmont
Shaft today.
Edward Mathews. secretary OF
sub district 4, is in the C~larksburG
field today.
James McCleery, district board
member. and Frank Mccartney,
district board member. is in the
Morgantown section today.
Five hundred miners attended a
meeting in the opera house at Mt.
Glare on Sunday afternoon. Ad-
dresses were made by Nick Aiello.
president OF sub district 1, and
Charles H. Bailey, International
organizer.
S. H. Patchell and Robert
Charleston are in the Fairmont re-
gfon today and will probably re-
main here a few days.
J, L. Ballard, Charleston, inter-
national organizer, is in Fairmont
for a few days.
One thousand delegates Of dis
trict S, United Mine Workers OF
America, held a special meeting at
Monongahela City, Pa. on Sunday
afternoon wren it was unanimous
ly agreed to give no consideration
toward adopting the 1917 scale
instead Of the present one in force.
The meeting Il was reported, was
, held In as a result of the Outlaw"
meeting held in Axleton on No
vember 25th. There appeared to
be no champions of a wage reduc-
ton in the gathering.
Geological Survey.
Soft coal production in the Uni
tied States for the week ending No
vember 26th, dropped to 7,0S3.000
met tons, This was due to the fact
THAT there were but five working
days that week, Production in the
IFairmont region for the week end
ing November 18th was 1854 per
lcent. OF full capacity.
other fields we're: West virginia
Pan Handle, 6S.7 per cent; Wind
ling Gulf, So per cent; New River,
liza per cent; pOcahontas, 523 per
Iceut.; Tug River, 56.3 per cent;
IKanawha, 25.1 per cent; Logan.
1874 per cent. Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh (rai)-3s.4 per cent;
,Westmorelsnd, IT'S per cent; Cen
trial, At per cent: Somerset, 46.l
per cent. Maryland-Cumberland-
piedmont, 42.5 per cent: Indiana,
l52 per cent; Illinois, IS per cent;
Southern Ohio, go per cent; north
ern and central Ohio, 62.5 per cent:
Iowa. 1914 per cent.
Figures show that the Westmore-
land non.uniou fields worked stead.
lier that week than any other coal
producing field in the country.
Coal Co, Chartered.
The secretary OF state has issued
a charter to the Sewell Mountain
Goal company Of Springdale, It's
capital stock is $50, 200, and the in
icorporat6rs are W. w. Brewer, Of
lexington; E. " Keim, s. D. Tyler.
IN. G. Young and j. C. McWhorter,
LOT Buckhannon.
Start Non-Union.
A report from Charleston states
that two additional mines have
started up on the n%on-uuion basis in
the New River field.
Talk 1917 Scale.
Copies of the Daily Republican.
MonongaheIa City, Pa, have been
received in Fairmont. That publ
cation reports a recent meeting IN
that city OF the miners in which tho
advisubility of accepting the 1871:
Iscale was discussed. Four hun.
bred miners attended and It was
said the opinion was divided. The
meeting was not authorized by the
j~ofHicials of the United Mine Work
lers of America and consequently no
o~Eeicials except several district OIL
sanizers were present. The RepuO-
IIican In part states: ut seems the
mass meeting had no fountain head.
hut 1t was stated that some Of thosa
present had a conference with Vice
president Miller, Of the Pittsburgh
Coal company, and that he said