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BIRTHS

Frank and Minnie Cahnk. 1887 S. Ala
bama. boy.
Albert and Selma strohmeyer. 1928 Bacon
girl.
Roscoe and Lucille Wycof. 17o2 s. Bel
mont. girl.
Herman and verns Gerlock. 1915 shep
ard. girl.
oriey and Nora swope, 1910 Madison
girl.
Jesse and Marie Baker. 141S McLaan. boy
Harry and Margaret Emit. ALTO E. Michi
gan. boy.
Martin. and Alice Young. Holt road boy
George and Irene Snyder. Methodist Hos
Louis and Ruth Levy, Methodist Hos
Roscoe and Alice Riegner. Methodist Hos
Martin and Doris Shane Methodist Hos
pital. giri.
Louis and Anna Gossert. Methodist Hos
Harry and Beatrice Hobbs. city hospital
Fred and Minnie Zero. city hospital, girl
Charles and Daisy Verbarg. s3S n. East,
william and Mona Henderson. Wards
Sanitar1um, girl.
Frank and Hattie McGraw. $40 N. No
BILE, boy.
Leonard and Edwiua Davis. 900 W. Mich
igan, boy.
Harrison and Mary Bucktns, $50 ",
Sixteenth, boy.
Jesse and Blanche Wall. 616 s. Missouri
girl.
Frederick and Della Sommers. 626 N,
Illinois, boy.
Solomon and Bessie Levin st. Vincent's
Hospital. boy.
John and Elizabeth Binford, So. Vim
cents Hospital, boy.
Elmer and Jessie Ostermeyer. 4o16 Z.
Michigan. boy.
Joseph and Francis Turk. no Arnolda'
boy.
Joseph and Josephine Funk, 2s03 W
Tenth, boy.
Russell and Ola Graham, 0 Villa. boy.
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C~OTTONSEED MARKET

NEW YORK. July 1.-Cottonseed oil sales
were $500 barrels, the market moving
within a narrow range and about unchanged
from yesterday.
There were deliveries on contracts and the
lard advance of about 10 points helped
the market.
Cotton was easier and selling by South
ern interests checked the advances.
There was selling of October against pur-
chases of November.
Cash trade was slow. cotton weather main
ly good and crop reports satisfactory,
The cottonseed oil market will close at
10 o'clock on Monday. The Government
cotton crop report will DO out ct lao New
York time Monday and will not be a factor
in oil until Wednesday.
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HOGS W AT CHICAGO
Heavy Receipts Cause Drop of Prices;
Sheep and Cattle Hold Steady.
By United Press

CHICAGO. July Hogs sold log
90 cents lower at Chicago stockyards
today Receipts were 10000 and hold
overs II. 900. The large supply coupled
with shipments Of more than 5000
hogs to big packers direct caused the
decline. The total supply of hogs at
the ten big markets was $1,000. COM
pared with As, 500 a week ago.
Cattle receipts were 1000. The mar
ket was steady. Trade differed little
from the usual Saturday market. No
good steers were in the pens and buy
ers were slow in taking hold.
Sheep receipts were 1000 and the
market steady. Total supply for the
ten principal markets was 5000, which
is about the same figure as a week
ago.
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IN THE COTTON MARKET

NEW YORK, July Cotton opened
steady today, off Z to Is points, on
continued favorable weather reports.
July opened at 21.34c, off s points; Oc-
tober, 20.9sc, off 7 points; December,
20.65c, off 8 points; January, 20.48c, off
10 points, March, 20.15c. off IS points.
Trading was dull during the first
half-hour, traders apparently awaiting
the Government crop report Monday.
The American Cotton Associations
placing the condition of the
crop at 10 per cent had little eff
feet on early trading.
The cotton market cfosed steady. being
off l to 4 points after two hours of fuc-
ruTfhfr a norr0u rarra
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DEATHS

Anna NJ. Nelson, IS, 1871 N. Capitol
acute enteritts.
Jennie Atridge. 70, Central Indiana Hos
pital, chronic u~yocarditis.
Sarah E. Hill, so, 1909 N. Capitol
chronic gastritis.
DeLester Eddy, 10, 1911 Broadway, leu
kemia.
George Weaver, rs. city hospital, cero
bral hemorrhage.
Joseph Smith, 90. $50 S. Senate, arter1c
sclerosis.
Edward E. Nard. 10 months, 1149 s
West. hamilton,
Aaron J. Smith. 90. St. vincent's Hos
pital, septicaemia.
Frank w. Snyder. AZ. 2es Parkview, in
tussusception.
sarah Jane Banks, IS. 9s5 Camp, apo.
plexy.
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VVFs1FtEE NNFV
-Output of Flour
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United Press

bRK, July 1.-Early reports
6lroad strike were not sufh-
bhnite to give any indication
number Of men obeying the
der.
of the stock market indicated
Street was not ~agitatlng it
riding this strike.
Egh attendance in brokerage
hnd on the market floor was
because of the general migra-
|he country over the weekend
rs a firm demand for stocks
market showed strength in
" all issues.
Aion by President Obregon Of
debt agreement did not
effect on the oils. Mex
BUM however, held during
session at around I77%,
we Fridays close and go
than the low Of that day.
%rge Short Interest
short interest has been built
balm oil stocks. This class of
Is been under heavy pressure
bear element, although there
hg in the situation to warrant
ere breaks in such stocks as
d OF Indiana, Sinclair and
he time these stocks were 60
vn this week the ticker was
constructive oil news.
was talk of further advances
of gasoline, scarcity of
krom which lubricating oils
se. declining production OF Pc
and falling of in stocks. large
etc.
8e public has been a heavy
y petroleum stocks for several
past and this is perhaps the
he bear element selected as
u target for attack.
sales totaled 235,000 shares.
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INDIANAPOLIS D

Eggs-Fresh. 1SQ19c. Butter
Packing stock, 17R1Sc. Poultry
Fowls. 16@21c; leghorn fowls, 15c
broilers, 1% to 2h ID. size, acc.
broilers under. ~ lbs, SIC; leghorr
broilers at discount; cocks. 12c; stays
12c; young hen turks. 8 lbs. and up
Csc; old tom turks. 23c; young tom
turks, IL lbs. up. Csc; Gull thin tur
keys not wanted; ducks, 4 lbs. and up
1850; geese, 10 lbs. and up, 12c
squads, IL lbs. to dozen, s5Q5.5o; ole
guineas. per dozen. So.
Butter-Local dealers are paying 81
Q36c per ID. for butter delivered in
indianapolis
Butterfat-LocaI dealers are pay
ing 35c per ID. for butterfat delivered
In Indianapolis.
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Three Stay on Job

LOGANSPORT. Ind, July Eff
teen hundred Pennsylvania Railroad
shopmen walked out at 10 o'clock this
morning.
Headed by workers in automobiles,
the men formed in line and marched
to union headquarters through the
business section Of the city.
Three men are reported to have ~
manned on the job :
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BY WALTER b. BROWN,
Editor New York Commercial.
written for the United NeWs.)

NEW YORK, July $50 far at
least as the money market is con
cerned, a return to normalcy mas been
accomplished. Rates are about on a
1914 basis before the war cloud APP
peared.
Practically for the first time since
the Federal Reserve system was es-
tablished We are to witness its work
ings on a normal basis, such as Ii was
intended for when 1t was framed. The
system was barely established before
it was called upon to withstand the
strain of the World War, and since
that time it has had TO carry our own
war financing and TO stand the post
war imitation and then the defiation.
It's authors never thought it would
be called Upon to stand so severe a
test, but they builded better than they
knew. 1t has met all requirements.
Now il is to be allowed to function as
it vas first intended. and the country
is to feel its benefits.
No Seasonal Stringency
We have an elastic currency so that
we need no longer fear seasonal strin-
gency. as during crop-moving time.
Bank deposits are increasing, com
mercial loans are small. and thu Fed
eral Reserve is in a position TO meet
the practically unlimited requirements
Of ordinary business.
AS to security values, a great many
stocks r back to a normal yield,
considered from the pre-war stand
point. while new bond offerings have
been heavy but have been readily alb
sorbed, until the yield is falling below
what the public idea OF investment re-
turn is. There is, in consequence, a
slower market movement. although
without any loss of strength.
Business Recovering
Business recovery is proceeding
apace. Were it not for labor dis
turbances the outlook would be espe-
cially bright, but even so these dis
turbances are temporary. There has
been no change in fundamentals and
it can come only from some political
upheaval either here or abroad. and
while no one can tell what a day may
bring forth there is no reason to as
sumo that such conditions will be any
worse than they are now. Taking iron
and steel as an index, the outlook is
still favorable, while the week on
June II revealed freight car loadings
as the highest attained this year
There is no s~lackening in the auto
mobile industry, or in the rubber and
allied industries. In all of these in
dustries there are complaints Of short.
age of labor, which is rather different
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MARRIAGE LICENSES

Clarence ". Lapp, go E. New York st.
Clara Sandells. $40 z. New York st.
Hobart r. Atchison, $50 Lincoln ST.
Pauline Wood, 90 Whittier Pl.
Robert L. Dundas. Linden Hotel, MAZDA
lene C. 6enith, 2212 s. Meridian 81.
Arthur J. Wilkie. Hotel Edward: Isabella
L Smith, $685. Hemlock St.
John Alexander, Chicago; Priscilla NJ.
Roberts, 3051 N. Illinois st.
Amos G. Willard, 2026 Broadway; Eliza
beth s. Dashlell, 1870 n. Capitol Ave.
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HOLIDAY DUETS N. Y. CURE
REQ Motors Advance After 100 Per
Cent Dividend Is Declared.
By United Press

NEW YORK, July with 1 any
traders anticipating the Fourth OF
July holiday, the curb market was a
duh affair today. There were nc ma
jor trends except in REQ Motors
which advanced on the declaration OF
a 100 per cent dividend. The close
was irregular.
Oils generally were of a fraction
at the close.
independence Lead was active
among the mining stocks.
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CHICAGO STOCKS
Thomson & McKinnon)
CLEVELAND

CLEVELAND. June 30.-Butter-
Extras in tubs, AN @43c; prime, 43h
044c: firsts, 40h Gale; packing stocks,
2092ic. Eggs-Fresh gathered. North.
arn extras, Csc; extra firsts, 27c; Ohio,
23hc: Western firsts, new cases. ale.
Poultry-Live heavy fowls, 2s@24c;
ROSTERS, 15@1sc; spring ducks. ESQ
0ep
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LIVERPOOL GRAIN
CHICAGO CASH GRAIN

S115b. No. . hard. 9I.1S. Corn--No. 2
yellow. 64c; No. 4 yellow, $50; No. 2
mixed. 90 &c: No. 3 mixed. 63hc; No; 8
mixed. Gle; No. 2 white. sac; No. 3 white;
white. 71ac: No. 4 white, 35&c.
Timothy-Cash. S4@5. Cloverseed-Cash,
Slo01S.
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RAW SUGAR MART

NEW YORK. July Raw sugar opened
steady today. July, 2.19G323c; September,
3.3203.33o; December, 3.3S a 3.40c; March.
3.22Q3.34c.
Sugar bought 10000 bags OF Cubas for
August shipment at 81 cents cost and
freight. up Lice; domestic Withdrawals
for refined sugar 1 cent on previously
placed contracts are large and increase
In demand is expected if warm weather
continues.
Export market is somewhat easier with
sales of refined from second hands at
4.25 cents to 4.30 cents I. q. g.
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TOLEDO r PRICES

TOLEDO. July - Wheat Cash,
December. 81 90. Corn-Cash. zoe. Oats,
Cash. 44c. Rye-Cesh, s9e Bsrley-Cash,
December. $1,000. Timothy-Cash, S2.S5:
September, S3.o5; October. So. Alsike-
Cash and October. $11.75: Decembez.
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WAGON WHEAT PRICES

Local mills and elevators today
are paying 81 for new No. 2 red
winter wheat. They are paying sac
for new No. 2 white oats.
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BONDS MOVE FAIRLY WELL
In Face of Holiday Market Shows
Active Trading Today.

By United Press
NEW YORK, July 1.-Considering
it was a Saturday before what will
be for many q double holiday the bond
market was fairly active today.
Mexican bonds reacted slightly on
the news hat President Obregon had
accepted the Mexican debt settlement
Liberties acted well also, fourth
AIS lettering yesterdays high. when
they went to 100.32.
Rail bonds were steady.
Total sales 8 1884 900. against S1o.S05,-
600 yesterday, $6.437. 900 a week ago and
holiday q year ago.
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WHOLESALE BEEF PRICES

The following are today's wholesale
prices for beef cuts as sold by the In
dianapolis markets of Swift & Co:
Ribs-No. 2, 1Sc; No. 8, 14c. Loins-
No. 2, 23c; No. 8, 1Sc. Rounds-No.
2, tic; No. 3. Ice. Chucks-No. 2. lie;
N~G-1Oc. PLates-No. q &c: No. 8. Sc,
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NEW YORK. July Marks continued
to drop today. Other foreign exehang was
firm Closing ss follows: Sterling. 4.42 =
Q442k. up 81: francs, .0s39G .OS39h.
OF .0OO0 y lire. .04e9H n .O47O, I'M
changed; Belgian. .07e7h q .07es. up .OO0I;
marks. 2 Il. of .0001 y drachma. .034
a .036, unchanged: Swiss. 1896 q 1898. off
.0OO1: grilders. 1880 a 1855. up .OO05:
pesetas. 1851 q 1858. up .OO05: Swedish.
$3.50 a 1855, up .O015: Norway. 1885, q
1870. up .0020; Danish. .2145 @ .2150. up
.OOOS.
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Inspections


Wheat-No. 2 red, new, I car; sample.
. cars. Total, 3 cars.
Corn-No. q white. 1 car; No. 4 white.
Q cars: No. 3 white. . cars; No. 9 white,
, cars; No. 8 yellow, 2 cars No, 4 yellow,
4 cars. No. 8 yellow, @ cars. No. . vel
low, 5 cars; No. 8 mixed, 8 cars; No. 4
mixed, S cars; sample mixed, 1 car. Total,
oats-No. Q white, 8 cars: No. 8 white. o
cas-: No. 1 white, 9 cars; sample white, l
car; No. 3 mixed, l car. Total, 20 cars.
Total number Of cars for day, 81.
Grain prices quoted +. o. b. basis Al u c
rate to New YORK.
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.Inspections for Wee
HAY MARKET

The following are the indianapolis
prices for hay, by the wagon load, de,
livered in Indianapolis:
Hay Loose Timothy, $4,000
mixed hay, S1S@19; baled hay. SIS
@19.
Oats-New, per bushel. 42045c.
Corn-Both old and new, pc busae
6sO68c- 49,
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ST. LOUIS GRAIN

ST. LOUIS. July Grain opening
Wheat-July. S112h September, STA q
Ola. u. Corn@July, 81 Ac: September,
B3 "a n 90 G.
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LIBERTY BONDS
l.
AND EXCHANGE

napoIis bank c~learings Saturday
- SS,761. 900. and for the week.
Sfgs56S, 900; bank debts. S6.S21, 900. and
for the week. ~S35.924.0O0.
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INDIANAPOLIS CASH r

Bids for car lots OF grain and hay at the
call OF the Indianapolis Board of Trade
Wheat-Firm; No. . red, 81 LOCALES.
Corn-Ftrm: No. 3 white, 5dQ6fc; Nc. 4
white 554 5eci No. 8 yellow, 5o.& SIC; No.
4 yellow. b5 q soc; No. 3 mixed. SO q 90 II O.;
oats-Firm; No. 2 white. 80 u q sec;
No. 8 white, "a n G3oc.
Hay-Weak; No. ! timothy. $17Q17,5o;
No. 2 timothy. $40 $4,000; No, l light
clover mixed, SIS G16.50; No. 1 clover hay,
Gt4
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CONDITIONS

Since Friday morning unsettled weather
with showers and thunder storms In many
localities has prevailed over much of the
interior from the middle Roxy Mountain
states to the Great Lakes. Some showers,
also, have occurred In the Southeast. 1t Is
n little warmer in the eastern highland re-
gion, and a little cooler from the middle
Nississippi Valley westwar to the Rockies.
but the temperature changes, as "A rule,
have not been decided over large areas.
Warm weather prevails in eastern and
sontheru sections, but the readings are u
uttle below normal in the far Northwest.
CORN AND WHEAT BULLETIN
For the twenty-four hours ending at 7
a m. Saturday, July 1, 1929;
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NEW YORK COFFEE

NEW YORK. July Coffee opened
steady today; July. 9.93c BID; September.
9.74c bid: December. 9.50c bid: March,
e47c; May. $40 @9.44c.
Coffee closed steady,
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KANSAS CITY GRAIN

KANSAS CITY. July Grain opening
whcat-Juiy. SLOTS @1.0S: September,
81. OS GLOSS.
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Money Market Normally
Here; Reserve Meets Test
10Y IUUuI5OU q
July l.

from conditions prevailing a few
months ago. This recovery Of the de-
mand for labor has naturally put an
end to further wage reductions in
these industries, but this renewed &C
tiVity is based on wage scales already
reduced which have made II possible
to so reduce the prices OF the various
products to the consumer or user as
to stimulate the demand. Production
costs were too high. AS soon as they
were reduced in conformity with the
general defation the buyers strike
was al an end.
Wages Much Debated
4ges have been pretty well de
flated in all industries except rail-
ways, coal and some Of the textiles.
but with the reductions that have
taken place they are not down, gen
orally speaking. to a pre-war basis.
1t is a grave question as to whether
his is desirable. Wages should be
as high as production costs will per
NIT and the principle is being recog-
nized that weli.paid labor means an
increased buying power hat reacts
upon industry. The difficulty is to
find that exact point where wages are
neither too high nor too low in re-
lation to selling prices.
1t might be said hat TO increase
wages would increase the buying
power and so stimulate industry as to
make it possible to pay the increased
wages, but unfortunately this theory
has its limitations. Because there g
a large part of the community whose
buying power is determined by fixed
incomes or by incomes derived from
other than manual labor. It is this
average buying power that has to be
reckoned with in determining selling
prices.
Danger in Municipal Bonds
One OF the outstanding features in
recent developments is the ex-
travagant issue of municipal bonds.
They are easy to float because Of their
tax-exempt and because capital is
cheap. They are usually considered
safe because capital is cheap. They
are usually considered safe because
they are backed by the taxing power
of the municipality. Abuses are like
ly to creep in, however, and. in fact,
are creeping in one Of the most
serious being the burden placed upon
other b~ondholders and upon business
in general by having to carry the
burden Of taxes which persons OF large
wealth are enabled to avoid by In
vesting in these tax-exempt securities.
Only by a constitutional amendment
can this matter be corrected, and
while there has been some agitation
for it, 1t seems to be languishing.
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HARDING SIGNS NAVY BILL
Appropriation Gives s2S9. 600, 900 to
Maintenance for Fiscal Year.

WASHINGTON, July President
Harding today signed the Navy ap
preparations bill, providing approx
mately $3.50, 900, 900 for the main
tenance Of the naval establishment
during the fiscal year.
The president also signed seven
teen other minor buls-baforGIsay1ns
for Marion, Ohio ;
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BUILDING PERMITS

T. R. Barnard. double. s4e N. Dearborn
So, 500.
James Zscharias. addition. s1s E. Mar
ket. 800.
Raymond Boehm. remedial, A05-s N. Pine
$500.
j. L. whitlock, remodel. 1910 W. Wash.
Matthew Wright, repairs. 1928 CarrolIton,
J. E. Karus. addition. 54s2-S4 Julian,
B.. Pierce, repairs. 46 N. Pennsylvania,
John B. Long. repairs. 4o6-s N. West,
Otto Kuehrmann, garage. 405 E. McCarty,
]. L. whitlock. remodel. 1910 W. Wash
ington, $3.50.
4. B.. Hopping. garage, 1850 W Thirty
Sisters Of the Good Shepard, addition, III
W. b. Milner. garage. 1886 Brookside
q. c. Bergman. garage. 1921 N. Penn
Il. W. spivay. dwelling. LAC E. North,
Mrs. J. E. Bryant. garage, so52 N. New
Jersey. $410.
Maud searcy. remodel, 642 ArbOr. $3.50.
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OAR OF TRADE REPORT

The weekly statement Of the Indianapolis
Board of Trade showing the output OF our
by local mills, inspections for the week and
and stock instore. follows:
Comparative Statement
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K EFFECT
RAIL STRIKE
4 STOCK LIST
ports Contain Meager
of Number of
Walking Out.
NOT AGITATED
lion of Mexican Debt
ment Fails TO
4 Help Oils.
Y STOCKS AVERAGE

July Twenty industrial
Nv averaged 92.93, up 81 per
kty active rails averaged S4.45.
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MOTOR SECURITIES
ACTIVE OIL STOCKS
. tBy Thomson & NcKInnon.l

(By Thomson q McKinnon.l
-Iniv l.
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FINANCIAL.
Concluded from Proceeding Page.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-16
RESULTSOF COAL
 STRIKE SUMMED UP
Both Sides Agree Many Non- Union Men Have
 Joined WaIkout
By Associated Press

Pittsburg, April 15.--Leading forces in the coal strike tonight summed up the results of the first two weeks of the struggle. agreement being reached on the general statement that the United Mines Workers had added largely to their forces by rr- cruits from the nonunion mines of the western Pennsylvania. section. In the Connellsville coke region where the union is endeavoring to cripple supplies for the steel mills the union claimed it had closed almost all the independent mines in the Brownsville district along the Monongahela river an made inroads into the working Force in other parts of Fayette coun- ty. Operators conceded the claim but held that some important mines of the Prick Coke company, subsidiary or the United States Steel corpora tion against which the unionization drive had been specially directed were still operating with all the men they needed
 The union further held that all non- union miners in Green county were doWn and 45 or 50 mines" in the Westmoreland field had been forced 10 close. Not mine along the main line of the Pennsylvania railroad be- tween Pittsburg and Johnstown, Vice President P. T.. Pagan of the United Mine Workers declared, was In opera ton.
 All the union mines in the district closed the day the strike was called and no move has been made to reopen them. There is no apparent short age of commercial coal. but produc- ton of coal for the mills usually obtained from the mill company mines showed marked falling off. Although many thousands of men are idle in the district there has been