The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-02-11
NORTHERN Y. VA.

Personal Mention.
w, Clark Dobble, general super.
intendent, Jamison @. q @, com.
pany, returned this morning from
q trip To- Greensburg. Pa.
Samuel D. Brady. president Of
the Brady Coal corporation, has re.
turned from q business trip to Bal.
timore.
W. E. Watson, president OF the
Fairmont and Cleveland Coal com.
pany, returned this morning from
q business trip 70 Pittsburgh and
New York city.
c. E., Hawker, OF the Edward
Hines coal interests, went TO Chi.
cago on Thursday night
James Murphy, shipping clerk,
Consolidation Coal company, is in
Wheeling today. !
G. II. jenkins, secretary and
Treasurer, Hutchinson Coal com.
pany, is on business trip to Pitts.
burg today.
Daily Shipments,
Pier shipments of the Monongah
division. B. & o., on Friday were
confined to copsignments to Airing.
ton pier, totaling 55 cars. No coal
went TO Curtis Bay. A total OF 351
cars Of coal were loaded east and
IS cars west. Fifteen cars OF coke
were loaded to the east and II cars
to the west.
Railroad fuel shipments OF the
division on Friday totaled 1856 cars
Of which the B. & o. secured IS
cars. on the Charleston division,
B. & o., there were ~ cars OF coal
secured by the carriers and Of that
the B. & o. secured II cars.
Coal Movement
Twenty-one trains drew 10 car
loads Of freight over the B. & o.
through the Grafton gateway on
Friday Of which All cars were
coal. To the west there we're 800
cars OF coal loaded.
A total OF TIA loads OF freight
were moved In twenty-one trains
east Of Grafton on Thursday OF
which 4S2 were coal. To the west
there were 955 cars of freight
moved.
Working Conditions
Sixty-seven mines were working
today on the three railroads in the
region. This means that thirteen
less mines are working today than
yesterday. The number active to-
day Is not unusually low for Sat,
urday, however. Fifty-two OF the
mines on the Monongah division,
B. & o., are, at work while one Is
busy on the Western Maryland
railway and fourteen are working
on the Monongahela. Along the
Charleston division, B.. & o.,
twenty-eight mines are at work
today while on the Monongahela
IN Pennsylvania a total OF 81 are
active.
Today 7s1 empties were ordered
on the three railroads as follows:
B. & o., 32s; Monopgahela, 1854;
Western Maryland, IS with 6S de-
sired on the Charleston division,
B. & o. and 1858 on the Monon
gahela In Pennsylvania.
United Mine Workers
Frank Mccartney. district board
member, is in the clarksburg field
today.
Patrick Buckley, vice president
Of sub district 4, is in Ida May
I today.
No miners meeting are sciedu1-
ed for Sunday.
The majority OF the miners dele
gates will leave Tarmont tor In
dianapolls on Sunday morning TO
attend tho convention.
Nick Aiello, president Of sub
district 4, is today entertaining his
/ parents, who came here frohi
Charleston today.
kinewood Scale
The wage scale which became ef.
tective at various operations In the
kingwood, Preston county, section,
lat the beginning Of this month Is
as follows: Pick mining, headings,
60 to 65 cents per ton; pick mining.
rooms % cents a ton: drivers, per
day s hours, So; trackmen. per
day, s hours, So; mo!ormen, SO. 12:
blacksmiths 1915; engineers,
1924; firemen, 1912; trappers,
$1.75; bumpers 50; trimmers $3.50;
inside labor, $3.50; outside labor
$3.50. The eight hour day is OBJ.
served on the foregoing Jobs.
Home from East
A Lisle White, OF the Fairmont
and Baltimore ! Coal company,
Adamstou, has returned from a
business trip to New York City.
Lower Kentucky scale
Under the recent arbitration
award. coal miners in southeastern
Kentucky and eastern Tennessee,
4 Ia No.