The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-11-18
Total of 828 Cars Of Coal
Loaded in Region
Thursday
R. R. fuel is FAIR
Empty Order Off Today
and More Mines
Are Idle

gIon on Thursday aggregated s2S
carloads whilo 4 cars ITS OF coke
we're loaded. This was a decided
drop compared to the other days OF
the week.
Mines along tho Monongah d.
vision B. & o. loaded 45s cars OF
coal and 4 cars OF coke; total load.
ing on the Monographs In West
Virginia was 325 cars whilo on the
Western Maryland there were A
cars of coal loaded.
Operations along the Charleston
division n. & o. R. R. on Thurs
day loaded SO cars OF coal while
the mindj along tho Monongahela
railway In West Virginia loaded
COS cars Of coal.
East of Grafton
Twenty four trains drew 500
freight loads east OF Grafton on
Thursday. OF that 634 cars were
coal. The western movement was
1876 cars. A toal of 1877 loads OF
feiglnt wera on the Monongah di,
vision u. G. o. at midnight OF
which CTS loads were coal.
Daily r. r. Fuel
There were 2oS cars OF coal
loaded as railroad fuel off the
Monongah division B. & o. R. R.
on Thursday. OF that total the B.
& o. r.. r. secured 106 cars.
Is In the East
Samuel D. Brady. Of the Brady
Coal Corporation. left last evening
on a business trip to New York
City.
Claims Conspiracy
Stewards Journal prints tho fol
lowing in regard to nonunIon com
petition:
IS. L. Yerkes, one of the lead.
ing coal operators in the Alabama
district charges in a lengthy state
mant That coal operators and nn,
ion miners organizations OF the
Central competitive field have
been In a conspiracy to throttle
competition from non union fields
and that the check off system has
been used to that end. It Is alleg-
ed in MIR. Yerke's statement that
funds thus raised have been used
for conducting strikes In Alabama
and West Virginia.
"He declares that tho injunction
suit Of the Borderland Coal Cor.
poratton against the United Mine
Workers Of America and Indiana
coal operators which resulted In
the issuance OF Judge AndeEson's
Injunction OF Indianapolis, is the
cause OF the present upheaval in
the central competitive field upon
which the attention OF tho country
Is focused"
Even ore sensation than the
Injunction itself, Mr.. Yerkes de
clares, is the bill of complaint up
on which It Is based, wherein is
laid bare in cold legal phraseology
a conspiracy on the part Of tho
United Nine Workers and opera
tors in the unionIzed field 10 force
the union upon n%on-union fields
Of West Virginia and Eastern
Kentucky"
while Alabama is not named in
the bill or injunction, he continues
the 'luwlcssneSs and bloOdshed
which attended, the strike IN this
state resulted in q similar effort to
organize the miners here. and are
logically traceable to tho same
source"
AFTER discussing the bill OF
complaint ut considerable length
NJ Varbnp annNInHn1s
ut was shown in the Coronado
Coal Co, case vs. United Mine
Workers at Fort Smith, Ark.
wherein the operators whose
mines wero destroyed and the en-
ployes murdered through the at
tempt OF the union to unionize the
mines, recovered judgment for APP
prixmately $2,000,000 damage, that
the above conspiracy existed with
respect to Alabama and all
othrd nonunion coal producing
districts in the United States.
THAT this conspiracy still exists
with respect TO Alabama Is evil
denced by the enormous amount
Of money spent by tho union in
IQ6LT ElkUIL W ILL SkGS Wv .
mines and freeze the consuming
public during the 1s20-21 strike in
this district, not to mention the
loss OF life, bloodshed, destruction
OF propfrty, 'etc., o~ccasioned
thereby. All for the purpose of
Stacking Tho coal industry lin
Alabama and the people engaged
therein with the union domination
TO the end that they will ba I'M
able to compete in the territory
tributary to Alabama, with the IN
ionized coal fields enjoying more
favorable natural working con-
ditions."
Screened to Slack
British coal is replacing Amer1-
can coal in Italy. During the first
fifteen days OF September there
were 265,S62 tons and OF that Eng
lish mines furnished 2o7,76S tons.
American mines furnished 50.661
GnA-~ "