The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-04-07
ORGANIZATION
WORK In UNION
PROGRESSING
Operators Met This
Claim With a Report
That Only Forty-hve
Mines In the Region
Were Closed By the
Strike, Some Entirely
and Others Decreased
Forces

+ OrceS
Pittsburgh, April 7.-Union organi-
zation work is spreading in District 5,
United Mine Workers, operators and
union leaders are agreed. though their
claims differ as to actual gains. In
the KlOndike region 60 non-union
mines have been closed. according to
p. r. Fagan, vice president of the
district, and across the river in Wash
ington county the total number of
idle miners is 2S.00O
Operators met this claim with a re-
port that only 45 mines in the region
were closed by the strike, some en-
tireIy and some working with de-
creased forces.
The union plans to invade more
strongly the coke fields of Fayette
county. it was stated, where the II.
{. Frick Coke Company. subsidiary
OF the United States Steel Corpora
ton. has sixty plants.
The Birwind White mines. in the
upper end of Somerset county on the
edge Of the Central Pennsylvania dis
trict are badly crippled by the strike.
it was learned These mines have
never been closed by a strike since
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