The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-08
NOT TO SEND
SOLDIERS TO
STOP RIOTING
Weeks Declines to Send Fed
eral Troops Into New Mexi-
co to Preserve Order
Harding Approves.
MINERS ARE PAID TODAY
(By Associated Pressl

WASHINGTON, April S-Secretary
Weeks today declined to send federal
troops into New Mexico in response
to telegram from Governor NJ. c.
Mechem, who said he might need
them to preserve order in the Gallup
coal fields where martial law as de-
clared yesterday as a result of dis
orders incident to the coal strike.
The war secretarys telegram sent
and made public after he had con-
ferred on the matter with President
Harding said:
Unless disorder develops to a
point where state authorities are un-
able to preserve order, federal troops
cannot be used in connection with the
coal strike"
INDIANAPOLIS Ind, April s.-Idle
coal miners of the country, starting
today and continuing next week. re-
eeive their last pay, estimated at $50.
100000 by union officials and regarded
by them as strike fund
The big wage distribution. an inn
portant factor in the miners ability
to continue the general suspension of
/ work that began week ago on the
order of the United Mine Workers of
America, is for the final half of
March-in all, Is working days. The
| big sum is several times the total cash
! OF the union organiZations-nati
i state and local and comes to the
miners with an indefinite period of
| idleness ahead of them 1t is the only
big cash payment that will come dur
/ ing the suspension, the union war
chest not permitting any general
strike benefits
As most of the anthracite mines
| were kept on full time in March and
! the bituminous mines generally oper-
ated almost two-thirds of the time.
the miners last pay is among the best
sums the men have received for sey-
eral months. The exact amount, and
its apportionment in various coal
| fields, is not certainty, but William
Green, secretary-treasurer Of the
union, declared that s30,000,000 is a
very. conservative" estimate. Mine
owners here agreed with this state
ment
Eegin Paying Today.
Payment of the wages was beg,'n
today in the Pennsylvania anthracite
region, and in parts of Illinois Monday
is payday in Indiana and some other
fields, but elsewhere it is as late as
Friday More than S20.000000 will be
paid to the men in the districts. re-
sarded as forming the stronghold OF
the suspension - the Pennsylvania an
thracite region, the central compet-
tive region. and the southwest inter-
state district
For The anthracite miners Mr.. Green
estimated that S7,500,O0O was due
them 10 work between March Is and
81. The central competitive field
with its 215,000 union workers, he
said, would receive about s10,525, ,0o0,
and the southwest interstate region
almost 1900 600. In other bituminous
union fields, the wages were estimated
at $1,000, ,000 about half being to tl3
men in central Pennsylvania and West
Virginia.
Large Amount Mined.
While exact distribution of the
wages was said by Mr.. Green to be
impossible until reports are complete,
he pointed out on the basis of th,'~
geological SURVEYS report that 25.00C,,
600 tons of soft coal and 5,600,000
tons of anthracite were mined in the
last half of the month.
Union miners, he said, have produc-
ed at least two-thirds of the soft coal.
and the whole anthracite industry IS
closed on account of the unions suS.
pension of work.
The labor cost to the ton, according
to the unions contention, ranges
from S140 to 150 ton, at which
figure S30,000,000 would be realized
from the production of 21,0O0,000 to
|, 22, 100000 tens.
The Geological Survey reports. re-
: ferred To by Mr.. Green. gave the bit
luminous daily production for March
Is to March %. both inclusive. at an
average of 34,794 cars, approximately
!; 1,750,000 tons, an increase coming
, with the approach of the date set for
the suspension of work. Anthracite
production for the week ended March
25, was given as 2,095000 tons, and
| that of March 18 at 100000 tons,
with the last five days of work being
unaccounted for.
Wage Apportonment
From both the union and operators
sources here, it was said that the
miners would receive on the average
, of $50 to $50 each, with some operat-
ors estimating as much as SIS man.
J On this basis all of the unions half
million members were counted as hay-
ing worked during the last half Of
March, and Mr.. Green estimated the
approximate apporuonment OF wages,
now being paid. as follows:
Pennsylvania anthracite, $7,500.000;
Pennsylvania bituminous. s4,200000;
Illinois, $4500,000; Ohio, s2,450, 900;
West Virginia, S2,900.000; Indiana.
81, 0,000; Iowa, $650,000; Missouri,
s420,000; Kansas, s475,000; Oklahoma.
Arkansas and Texas, S750,000; Colora-
do Montana and Washington. s275.000
| A00- orx,Io
100000; Michigan, 125,000; Kentucky
100000; Alabama, 100000, and Ten
nessee, $3.50, 900.
: In some districts. a part Of this
money, particularly in Kentucky and
: Alabama, was said to be due men who
are at work, but it also was pointed
out that non-union men participating
|, in the suspension have some wages
due them.
INDIANAPOLIS. April S.-Tbe Unit