The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-08-07
SIX COAL FIRMS
Of district. J. | R. |. AT
MEETING Z. G TODAY. 0 D |! \
Small Group Of Monongalia:
County Operators Seek
ing Agreement.
ACT ] NOT q. sANcTIoN.E:ID Al ] 6 !:
Organizations Here Emphati-
cally Deny Particip ation
at Cleveland.
ACT NOT SANCTIONED

Emphatic denial that the MOI
ongahela Coal Association had
filed a request with John l. Lewis. e q \.
president Of the United Mine Work
ers Of America, for the admission
OF Northern west Virginia to the
Central Competitive Field was was
made at Morgantown today by g.
D. jenkins secretary Of the Mon Nc,
ougahela Coal Association When. ne
was shown an n5Associated Press dis
patch from Cleveland, Ohio. to the
effect hat8such an application had
been present 5ss;g II
sssts Our assoc ationS was q not-s in1vits q
to- attend tnessgC Cleveland confeE.
nkins said Ss..NeShave
not held a$meeting since that con
ference was calIed, we have no
representa- at the meeting, and
we have not taken any action what.
ever looking 70 admission to the
Central Competitive Field. I have
authority to- speak not only for the
Coal Operators As:
but for a majority ofzthe
oalsoperators. in North ern West
Virginia, who control an annual
output Of 35, 600, ,0OO, tons. . s 81
81 It! was learned from another au-
source, however. that
SIX large. coal companies, which are
members EofS the Monongahelasa sasso-
citation are at the
Cleveland meeting and have asked
to be included in the conference.
These coal Accompanies are the Gle
veIand- town Coal CO., the
Glib bert-DaVis Coal Co.. the Soper-
Mitchell Coal Co, the Con ellsyille
By-Product Co, the Warner Col
Iieries Coal Co. and the Bertha
Coal Co. These comp panies are rep
resented; how wever, only in their in
capacities, and have no
gahe1a Coal sAsso ation, It is said.
Supp1ementlng the statement
issued at Morgantown, by Mr..
Junkins. George c. Brackett.sec-
retary2 of the Northern West Vfr-
Issued "a statement declaring the
report from cleveland to f'.ttab-
so1utely false, Mr.. Brackett's
fol lows w
.;ii5s....The newspaperarep reports that
the scope OF the Cleveland confer
ence has been enlarged to include
Northern West Virginia is abb
solutely false. The action of. a
very small group of operators in
MonongaliaEC County in attempting
to force a seat in the conference
is the origin Of these rune It
may be that they have SO spersis-
tently d emanded represent tation
that the excuse of broadening the
central leld was manufactured to
keep them quiet. John &. Lewis,
one great am bition is to- hold a
ot the Central Competi-
tive Field within his grasp, and
he well recognizes the fact that
to include "a few operators from
West Virginia would
weaken his already tottering posi-
tion rather than siren gthen It.
His organization, therefore, has
never ISSUED " invita- tions d to any
outside thes original
four state conference::sa and neither
the esNorthern West Virginia Coal
Operators, Associatfon nor the
CoafsAssocia ton has
made any advances Yfo be in
cluded ssiz -
The moth eaten nremnant of
the Central C comp etitive Field
which is now gathered in C1evec
land is a azyery9po oors demonstration
OF for hich j ohm =.
Lewis has held thousandssofsme
out OF work Tor four months. \