The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-18
'aPERATORSARE
(|INII ON MINE
QUESTION
They Agree That Amount
Paid Men Will Have
to Come Down

?
Coal operators are apparently OF
che general belief that a. wage. re,
adjustment is necessary TO get any
Hhete In the present status OF bust.
NESS. There might be some diff
ference Of opinion as to the open
thor perhaps. but when 1t comes
,osthe proposition OF having a wage
reduction operators appear to be q
unit
,tlhere continues to. be some dis.
ketseion Of the open shop, but there
|iappears to be little new develop,
irents along those lines, ss opera
ftors trying II are doing 1t on the
4 quiet On the other hand the Off,
f,lalg Of thu United Mine Workers
Z America contended their forces
we're holding and that no more than
wo non.unlon mines were operat.
I ips today and one OF those with
come difficulty. Statements from
sber sources place the number
lfgher but at best they are at vari
ance.
ltwas understood today that the
! N0pengahela railway put on two
more shifters at GFay's Landing
re because OF the increase OF bust.
ness at these non.union opera
7 IONS. The Consolidated Coal &
4 eoke company is said to be work.
bag fairly steady, The iIsabella
,lne Of the Hillman Coal & Coke
inpany, Brownsville, Pa, are re-
3lofted 10 be working full time
Shtls the Century mine near
Brownsyille, Pa, Is reported to
have been working under better
eondiHons than what they had
been several weeks ago.
4 F'airmonter visiting Browns.
rllie, Pa, this week gave out the
fact that three or four OF the Frick
coal mines has resumed operations
tie states that there has been q re
Eed activity at the mines along
lShe Monongahela river and bargei
> hage again resumed shipping coal
down the river. Coal operators
iliereI he says, are satisfied With
b1sthess conditions since they
have nut the miners under a wage
redGction and have the union fields
n hole.a'
Retscaatsh tentt6H ,SsSfsH sss-ys
John "a. Clark, OF the Clark coal
Jesests, has returned from a sew
} IN weeks trip to Mountain Lake
ssssss, Nd.
i.nes{ P. Burns, representative
.pi the Cortwrisht Coal company. Il
oan Rbusinass trip to Uniontowu,
The Q. T. T. Rates.
~ Fhe Interstate Commerce com.
mission has suspended the reduced
rates nubllshed some time ago by
t phtrott, Toledo and lronton
E4Iroad from Ohio to the mines
IhtiI january /, but they have re
fused TO suspend traffic rates Oh
rcdueed proportionate on coal from
the Ohio river.
Is&slis interpreted here to mean
,hals the Logan. Thacker and Ger.
,taifi other coal fields OF Southern
west Virginia viii be allowed the
rate OF $fs5 by rail out Of lronton,
and have 81. .02 to cover, all expenses
shipping the coal on the Ohio
4,tgt = as. well as dumping It into the
gst Ironton. Apparently the
fmniissEon did not think that $l.03
allowing too much CT a differ
entialstottake care Of this expense
Mining institute
~ the Harrison county court
hodseSat Clarksburg this evening
NJ O'clock there will be meeting
the Ciarksburg Mining Institute.
Arfangements viii be made for the
diuner Ito be rendered Thursday
oventng, August 25th, in honor Of
9R MLambie, Charleston, head OF
stsne state department OF mines,
Granted a Charter
At Charleston a charter has been
Eranted to the Virginia Fork Coal
,sSnmpany, Fairmont, with a capi-
y 1aiisaf,on OF $4,000. The incor.
3purators are: s. II. Shrlver, Effie
shrfyef, U. A. Knapp, Matte
shfiyer and Hester shrlver, all OF
fatrmont,
Wednesday,s Loading
Iieoal loaded in the Fairmont re-
on on Wednesday aggregated $40
1cars. OF this there were 607 cars
llfcaded on the Mouongah division,
81 q % 252 cars on the Mononga-
I ielaE in West Virginia and 80 cars
the Western Maryland
un3the Charleston division, B. 3
R. r., on Wednesday there were
cars OF coal lloaded, which is
,3e best showing of the present
seek. In the Pennsylvania district
81 the Mononsahela railway on
Wednesday there were 231 cars Of
scoal loaded.
East Of Grafton
Twerty-three trains drew 71o
loads Of. freight east Of Grafton on
the B. & o. R. R. on Wednesday, OF
which $50 cars were coal There
l1Sere 444 loads moved west off the
(diyision.l This morning there were
1854 east-bound loads on the divl.
sion, OF which $50 cars were coal.
a total Of 700 loads OF freight
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