New Britain herald., 1922-09-28
NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 2s 1922
OPERATOR REFUSES
 ID MEET MINERS BerWind Declines Request Of N. Y.
 Fuel Administrator

| wind, president of the BerWind- White
 Coal company Independent operators
 who supply the lnterborough subway
 system with the majority of its coal, yesterday declined the request of
 State Fuel Administrator w. H.
 Woodin to attend conference with
 a committee of striking miners in an
 effort to bring about resumption of
 production in the company's mines in
 Pennsylvania, He said the company
 was ready to meet committee of it's
 own employees at any time.
 Mr. Woodin, who made the request I for the conference at the suggestion
 of Mayor Hyan and the board of
 estimate, said that he had agreed to
 meet the committee of miners this
 morning at 9:45 o'clock. He said
 there was probably little he could do
 in the matter. He gave Mir. Berwind's l letter to Controller Craig. When the
 controller refused to reveal the text l of the letter Mir. Berwind made it
 public. The letter in part said:
 T find that the statements made
 by labor officials and others that we
 have refused conferences with our tlIploSes- are DOtIl DdSeleSS ana ma licious.
 T learned from our operating off
 clalS that during the companys en-
 tire history we have always stood
 ready to meet committees of our em-
 ployes for the purpose of discussing
 questions affecting either the com
 pany or the men, and that. position is not altered today.
 During the present disturbances we have repeatedly by circular and signed statements in the public press invited our employees to confer with us. What our operating officials do object to is dealing with any outsid- CTS. The men in New York today who are seeking this conference are not our employees, but are outsiders who have been restrained by court order from the commitment of illegal acts in the furtherance of a conspir- acy of intimidation designed to inter- rupt our operators and the flow of coal to our consumers"
 Increased coal car loadings were reported by the railroads and large shipments of anthracite arrived in New York yesterday. Mr. Woodin expressed himself as well pleased l with the New York fuel situation"
 Big trucking companies and con sumers are being made victims of | new form of petty thieving by coal | truck drivers according to reports re- | ceived by the state fuel administra- l ton. The police it was announced | have been asked to help nip the l practice in the bud. and the fuel ad- has been asked to warn purchasers of coal to buy only their dealer and to secure a ticket or delivery receipt from the driyer'
 Trucking companies which do stevedoring and the consumers to whom the coal is consigned are suf- fering losses through diversions of the loads, according to a statement issued by Mir, Woodin The driver and confederate arrange for the jl diversion of truckload, getting $50 II or s6o for load worth double that he added
 MT. Woodin said that he will an- 1ounce the appointment of state wood administrator within the next CIV days, Although he has received 10 complaints of profiteerng in wood or fuel purposes, he said he did not ee why wood prices, even in normal ines, should be so high
 Harry T. Peters assistant said yes erday that the charge of the steam hip Livingstonia, lying off Ellis sland and consisting of 5,o0O tons of 'rltlsh coal, screen sizes, had been ffered to New York dealers through 1e fuel administrator, at s6 ton on oard ship, This coal should be re- tiled for about s10 8 ton he said.
 several persons have reported to le fuel administrator that they have aid Sir and SIS a ton for anthra- te coal in household sizes, but in- estigation showed that the coal had W cen purchased by the dealer during a le period the mines were shut down F nd the dealer had paid as high as sr l4 and S15 ton. MT. Woodin rged consumers to report all cases of pal profteering to his office, 165 34 roadway. - The board of purchase for coal an- ounced the receipt of Is bids for le quarter from Oct 1 to Dec 31, le total requirements being 93,0s2 ms for the use of II city depart ents and Bellevue and other allied F. ospitals The bids will be tabulated day.
 Warning to New Jersey coal dealers = lat the state fuel commission will act