Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-11-01
OHIO MINERS FIGHT
CHECK OFF RULING
800 Union Men at FloodWood
Resent Judge Anderson's
Injunction
LEADERS SEEK NEW PLAN
BY the Associated Press

| by the Associated lreSS
Athens, o., Nov. Between 2IH
and 800 union miners employed at Mine
No. 20 OF the New York Coal Company
at Floodwood, this county, went on
strike this morning ne a protest against
the checked injunction issued yestcr-
day by Judge Anderson in Federal Court
at indianapolis.
Tho strike, rs far as il could be
learned here, wns not authorized by any
| officials of the United Mine Workers of
America, and was instituted by the To-
cal miners on their own account.
indianapolis. Nov. 1.-(By a. P.)
With the CHECK off" system of col I.
lecting union dues under the ban OF
an injunction from the Federal Court
Workers of America today faced the
task of creating new nation wide
collecting agency for getting the union S
revenues from its half million mem
bers. Under the "check off, operators
having contracts with the union de-
Quoted the union dues from the miners
wages, rcmitting the money TO the
union.
Various plans for n new system were
Understood to be under discussion, and
officers indicated that the 1000 local
unions of tho miners international or
ganization would become the integral
factor in any new scheme. The diff
Guilty in creating the new agency, it
was said, was to provide against shut
ting off the labor supply at any union
operated mine.
In this connection William Green,
secretary treasurer Of the union, said
the CHECK of" had become univer-
sally accepted in the coal industry be-
cause IL obviatcd any interference with
workers over arcaragc in union dues.
Washington, Nov. 1.-(By a. p.)--
The salient features OF the temporary
order issued by Federal Judge Anderson
at Indianapolis yesterday restraining
the United Mine Workers Of America
probably will be passed upon by the
Supreme Court in the near future in
another case.
The principal legal questions at issue
In the Indianapolis case are involved in
an appeal brought by the United Mine
Workers from a decision of the Federal
courts in Arkansas in n proceeding
originally instituted by tho Coronado
and other coal mining companies in
that State involved in the 1914 strike
of the union.
IN the Arkansas case, which the Su-
prcme Court now has under advise
ment, the lower Federal courts found
the miners union n conspiracy in re-
straint Of interstate trade and in viola
tion of the Sherman antitrust law,
in that by strike and violence it closed
open or non-union mines under an
agreement with the operators of union
mines to relieve them of such compoti-
tion. The union contendel it was not
responsible for the acts Of destruction.
incident to the strike, which resulted in
the closing Of the mines. alleging the
destruction was caused by an outburst
Of local sentiment beyond the control Of
the union or its local branches.
Justice ltitH, Of the District Of Col
umbia Supreme Court, declined today to
enjoin Attorney General Daughterty,
United States Marshal Splain and
others from serving subpoena or other
legal process on the National Coal Asso-
citation and John y. a. Morrow. its
vice president, to answer an indictment
returned against the Plaintiffs and 225
others in indianapolis for alleged con-
spiracy to violate the Sherman Anti
trust Law.