Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-04-28
Coal Strike News
(By Federated Press)

union men ana SCrlKe Cne enClfe QlS-
| trict. In the first week of the strike
more than 1000 nonunion men drop
Led their tools and joined the organi-
ration. This was in the Clinch valley
region.
The company's private army of
! thugs was turned loose; families were
| thrown out bodily from company
owned houses and the usual reign of
| terror set up. But one camp after
another was shut down and the men
! taken into the union.
Johnstown, Pa.--Thirtytwo armed
guards lost their jobs with the big
Hillman Coal & Coke Co.'s camp at
Jerome in the mountains of Somerset
county when a thousand nonunion
miners they were employed to protect
downed tools and joined the union.
Just before he fired the guards
Supt. Trevor begged the men to re-
turn to work, promising them protec-
ton, but the men laughed and said
they didn't need any now. So the
guards were sorrowfully laid off, for
their job was gone.
Pittsburgh-The Dunbar furnace of
the American Manganese Mfg. Co.
and the byproduct coke plant closed
| down when the nonunion miners at
the company's coal field quit in sym
pathy with the U. M. w. of A.
Charleston, w. Va.-The paramount
question in the coal strike in West
| Virginia is food for the thousands of
starving miners who, in common with
| all other union miners in thee ountry,
are on strike against the "open shop
| pers" in their latest battle with the
| American labor movement.
There are now in District No. II
| alone $4,000 families in destitute cir
cumstances. Unemployment in the
| unionized portion of the district had
| been so acute before the strike that
only 25 per cent of the men have
worked for period of nine months.
In Logan, MERCER, Mcdowell and
Wyoming, the unorganiZed counties,
there are between 10000 and $4,000
nonuion miners at work who did not
respond to the strike call. Plans were
put into effect to organize these men
and pull them out as is now being
| done in Pennsylvania. The men re-
sponded to the miners appeal and be-
gan to join the union by the hundreds.
New York-Attempts may be made
| to import coal from Nova Scotia
should the coal strike continue, accord
ing to information just received here.
The Cape Breton mines have been re-
opened and are being worked at capa-
city pending a reconvening of the
| Canadian board of Cancellation in con-
nection with the mine troubles there.
Chicago-Coal is getting scarce'r
and prices are going upward, the
Chicago Journal of Commerce reports.
"It is surprising to note the num-
Der of inquiries being received for
coal from the nonunion fields. There
is practically no western coal left so
that all the demand is for the nom
union product. What little coal re-
mains in Illinois and Indiana is eX-
pected to be held by the operators for
the maintenance and care of the idle
mine operations"
New York-New York City may
soon feel the coal strike. Both the
Interborough Rapid Transit Co. and
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. de-
rive much of the steam coal from
which they generate power from the
Berwind- White Coal Co. in western
Pennsylvania, which have been forced
to close as a result of the spread of
the strike to their employees. The |.
R. T. and the B. R. T. COMPOSE prac-
tically all New York's rapid transit
system.
While officials of both these COM
panies, at the outset of the strike,
declared they had enough coal in re-
serve and enough available from the
nonunion fields to keep going, they
did not expect the strike to spread to
the unorganized mine fields. The
amount of fuel in their reserve bins
is not known, but they probably have
enough on hand to operate their trains
for several weeks and perhaps months
Indianapolis-Tw thousand ad-
ditional nonunion miners have joined
the coal strike last week, making a
total of 680,000 miners on strike,
United Mine Workers headquarters
here announce. The 5l4,00O union
miners are now reinforced by 1861
600 others, many of whom have joined
the union since the strike began April
1, when mine owners refused to full
fill their pledge and meet in wage con-
ference for a new agreement.
The chief union gains have come in
Pennsylvania and West Virginia btu
ninous fields. Anthracite fields are
thoroughly organized and production
there has stopped completely. Btu
minous production is cut down to
about one-third of what operators ex-
pected when they allowed the strike
to materialize.
The coke reeion of Fayette, Green
and Westmoreland counties in Penn
sylvania is over 80 per cent shut
shut down, according to reports from
p. T. Fagan, vice president, U. M. w.
A., in that district. The Frick mine
at Greensburg is closed.