Evening star., 1922-04-18
VICTORY CLAIMED
BY Mine WORKERS
!
Declare Non-Union Coal
Companies Plans Upset
! in Courts Action.

Complete upset Of "the plans Of the
non-union coal companies Of Mingo
county. w. Va. to drive the union
out Of that field" was claimed by
United Mine worker officials in MAX
ing public here today the supersedeas
signed last night by Judge Martin a.
Knapp. senior Judge of the Unlteo
States. circuit court Of appeals OF the
fourth district, suspending in part the
injunction recently issued by Federal
Judge McClintic of Charleston. to the
Borderland Coal Company.
The supersedeas was issued oy
Judge Knapp at the request of w. A;
Glasgow, jr., of Philadelphia. ana
Henry Warrum of Indianapolis. at
torneys representing the United Mihe
Workers, and will be filed during tne
day with the clerk of the federai ois-
trict court at Charleston.
Appeal Also Granted.
Judge Knapp, in addition to Issuing
the supersedeas. granted an appeal
from Judge McClintic's injunction Or
der to the United States circuit court
of appeals and directed all papers and
records in the case to be transmitted
to the clerk Of the latter court at
Richmond.
The supersedeas as Interpreted py
United Mine Workers officiais sus-
pends all of the restraints OF Juose
McClintic's injunction except those
which restrain the union miners from
doing acts that are in themselves un-
lawful, such as interfering with tne
employees of the coal company ny
menace, threats. violence or injury 70
them, their persons, their iamlites ~, =,
their property, and from interierihs
by like means with the enjoyment OIL
their property by the coal companies.
1T continues, however, the proHisiohs
of the injunction against trespasslhs
upon the property of the coal co'i-
panies.
Tent Colonies Protected.
The coal companies under the su-
persedeas are prevented from inter-
= fering with or destroying the tent
colonies maintained by the United
Mine Workers and Inhabited by sew
eral hundred families of coal miners
who lost their jobs by joining the
union in Mingo county. Judge NC
Clintic's injunction ordered that these
tent colonies be abolished wltnin
thirty days and that the United Mine
Workers be prohibited from furnlSn-
ing food. clothing or other supplies
to the people living in the tents!
United Mine Workers officials in
terpret the supersedeas further as
giving them the right to continue
their campaign of organization in the
non-union fields of Mingo county SO
long as they refrain from threats,
violence or other unlawful interfer-
ence with the rights of men TO seek
and accept employment voluntarily
The date for hearing the appeal at
Richmond has not been set. but Judge
McClintic's injunction will stand sus-
pended until that hearing takes place.
Bill Asks Commission.
The House labor committee which
has been investigating the coal strike
satuation decided today to take up the
subject Thursday from a new angle.
In place of his resolution for ap-
pointment of a commission to make
an inquiry as to labor conditions and
wages Representative Bland. repub-
lican, Indiana, today presented bill
to establish a commission to inquire
into labor conditions in the coal in
dustry," which he explained would
be a fact-finding agency.
The commission to. be known as
the coal investigating agency would
consist of ten members. including the
director of the geological survey, di-
rector of the bureau of mines. di-
rector of census and commissioner
of labor statistics. with six members
to be appointed by the President.
EFFORTS TO SETTLE STRIKE.