The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-05-19
Attendance Records ofiAs-
sociation Are Broken
This Year
.FAIRM0NTERS THERE
Production Took a Jump
In This Region Yes
terday

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Especial to The West Virginian1
NEW York;, May 19..-Secre-
tary Of Commerce Herbert Hoover
and Senator Frelinghuysen will
not address the fourth annual
meeting o fthe National Coal As
ISOLATION now in session here. The
Frelinghuysen bill which authoriz-
es the collection o. coal data prob
ably will be discussed and this
might prove embarrassing for the
officials. so they are going to stay
away.
Attendance records Of the asso.
citation are broken. The convention
is keen to hear former Governor
Cornwell speak. Tom Lewis has
been besieged by newspaper men
for a statement on the Mingo sit
uation and he e;promises to give out
one later lr the day. )
Assigned cars will be discussed
today and action is expected by the
convention. The directors again
having gone on record as opposed
to the assignet d gcar, system!
Who will be thetnext association
president Is a matter Of conjecture.
Some operators think that Col.
Wentz should be returned as
means Of backing him up" while
the Colonel, It is understood, does
not want 1t.
West Virginians present are as
follows: NJ. L. Hutchinson, G. e.,
Hutchinson, Clarence D. Robinson,
Samuel D. Brady, Frank R. Lyon,
@. H. Jenkins, George S. Bracket,
all Of Fairmont; James NJ. Orr,
Daniel Howard. D. R. Potter, D. 4.
Quinn, A. G. Smith, H. g: Smith,
D. NJ. Kramer, J. Edgar Long, Jack
Huffman, Claude ]. Ryan, A. Lisle
White, E. L. Spraker, Benjamin
Blssell, Century; Howard NJ.
Crawford, Philippi; DR.. A. NJ.
Kallbach, Piedmont; T. F. shaf-
fer, Cumberland; A. Spates Brady,
Everett Drennen and e. A. Bow
ers all of Elkins: P. NJ. Conley,
Charleston, director Of American
| Constitutional Association, is at
tending national patriotic societies
national meeting in New York.
"Unalterably opposed to assigned
cars for railroad fuel loading" was
the substance Of motion pAs"ed
at 1850 today by the National vi
association.
Not a single vote was cast in
favor OF renewing the system al
though some were anticipated when
the subject was introduced in the
report of ]. K, Bradley, Dundon;
w. Va, chairman OF the govern
ment relations committee, who ask
ed that clear cut action be taken
against assigned cars without be-
Jogging them with private cars
which will be discussed later.
T. H. Watkins, New York, told
how assigned cars affect the public
consumers and labor and declared
the principle OF assigned cars un-
sound. Phil Penna, Terre Haute,
was "unalterably opposed to assign
ed cars and said "they take adyan-
tage o fyou today and me tomor-
row." adding that the system was
bad as degrading. Ira Clemens.
Kansas City, said "It is against the
public good !" s. Hackett,. Cedar
Grove, West Virginia, told Of the.
harm the system does to the small
operators In a wonderful speech
made with deep emotion. f. s..
Peabody, Chicago, paid the coal in-
dustry's tribute to the late SECRETARY
Of the Interior Lane, and asked a
resolution on his death be prepared.
Quinton orton, Charleston, is a
member OF the committee on cleo
tions and G. a. Caperton, Charles
ton, Is a member Of the resolution
committee.
4 A. II. Andrews and F. o. Wiltshire,
Consolidation officials are here. Sew
en- hundred delegates are registered.
Northern West Virginia has the
second largest coal operators asso=
citation in the United States.
Yesterdays production in the
Fairmont region jumped to 950, cars
as compared with Tuesdays $40
cars. Prodnc ton on the Charles.
ION division yesterday was 81 cars
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