The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-11-18
Total Of 1913 Cars of COAL
Loaded in Region
Thursday
R. R. FUEL is FAIR
Empty Order Off Today
and More Mines
Are Idle

6lOh Ou AA0AOAhy @66ASoSeN
carloads whila cars cars OF coke
we're loaded. This was decided
drop compared to the other days Of
the week.
Mines along tho Monongah d.
vision B. & o. loaded 45e cars OF
coal and cars OF coke; total load
ing on the MonongahaIa in West
Virginia was 325 cars while on the
Western Maryland there were A
cars of coal loaded.
Operations along the Charleston
division B. & o. R. R. on Thurs
day loaded So cars Of coal while
the mind5 along the Monongahela
railway in West Virginia loaded
30S cars OF coal.
East Of Grafton
Twenty four trains drew s02
freight loads east Of Grafton on
Thursday. OF that 634 cars were
coal. The western movement was
1886 cars. A toal of 797 loads OF
feIglst were on the Monongah d.
vision b. & o. at midnight Of
which 675 loads were coal.
Daily r. r. Fuel
There were 208 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
Claims Conspiracy
SeYard's Journal prints tho fol-
lowing In regard to nonunion com
petition:
s"s, L. Yerkes, one Of the lead
ing coal operators IN the Alabama
district charges in a lengthy state
F11ai1e that cosl opera tors and S4r1i=
ion miners Organizations Of thd
cehAral 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 aIleg-
ed in Mr.. Yerke's statement that
funds thus raised have been used
for conducting strikes In Alabama
and West Virginia.
"FIe declares that tho Injunction
suit OF the Borderland Coal Cor
poration against the United Mine
Workers OF America and Indiana
coal operators which resulted in
the issuance Of Judge AndeFson's
Injunction at Indianapolis, is the
cause Of the present upheayal in
tho central competitive field upon
which the attention Of tha country
Is focused"
"Even moro sensation than the
Injunction itself, Mr.. Yerkes de-
clares, is the bill of complaint up
on walich It Is based, wherein Is
laid bare IN cold legal phraseology
a conspiracy on tho part Of tho
United Nine Workers and opera
tors in the unionized field to force
the union upon non-union fields
Of West Virginia and Eastern
Kentucky.
while Alabama is not named in
the bill or injunction, he, continues
the lawlcssneSs and bloodshed
which attended, the strike In this
state resulted in similar effort to
organize the miners here. and are
logically traceable to the same
source."
latter discussing the bnl of
complaint ut considerable length
Mr.. Yerkes concludes:
ut was shown in the Coronado
Coal Co, case vs.. United Mine
Workers at Fort Smith, Ark,
wherein the operators whos6
mines were destroyed and the en-
ployes murdered through the at
tempt of the union to unionize the
mines, recovered Judgment for ap-
prixma4ely $2,000,0O0 damage, that
the above conspiracy existed with
respect to Alabama and all
othrd non-union 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 the union in
their effort. to throttle the B>al
mines and freeze the consuming
public during the 1920-21 strike IN
this district, not to mention the
loss OF life, bioodshe1, destruction
of property, 'etc., occastoned
thereby. All for the purpose OF
shncklIng Ithe coal industry lin
Alabama and tho people engaged
therein with the union domination
10 the end that they Will bd un-
able to compete in the territory
tributary to Alabama, with the I'M.
ionized coal fields enjoying more
favorable natural working con.
ditions."
Screened to Slack
British coal Is replacing Amert-
can coal in Italy. During the first
fifteen days OF September there
were 265,362 tons and Of that Eng
|lish mines furnished 207,76S tons.
American mines furnished 50.661
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