Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1922-05-05
Coal Strike News


Chicago-Illinois mine reserves of
coal are almost exhausted, according
to the trade journal Black Diamond,
which says:
"There are only about 1000 cars of
Illinois coal left in the state and about
1900 of these are prepared sizes,
which are moving slowly. Screenings
are up almost dollar over their price
of a month ago, and mine-run is not
available. Storage stocks in Indiana
are dwindling rapidly and there is
good trade in non-union and western
Kentucky COAL"
Harrisburg, Pa.-The number of
Pennsylvania miners in volved in the
coal strike is estimated at 289, 1903, ac-
cording to officers of the state de-
partment of labor and industry. Of
this total $4,000 are anthracite miners
Fort Worth, Texas-Work has been
resumed in the Bridgeport coal mines.
Settlement of the lockout there is re-
ported as announced here by James
Lewis, president, u. M. w. A. About
300 men are affected.
Mooney said that a settlement
would also be attempted for the men
at the Thurber and Strawn mines
where lockout has been in progress
for more than year.
The miners have agreed to cut in
days wages of $1.50 and 25 cents
ton reduction for diggers. The new
scale is to be effective until an agree
ment is reached by District No. 81
executive board and the Southwestern
Interstate Coal operators.
Lock Haven, Pa.-Striking miners
have been defeated in their attempt
to retain possession of company
houses. Judge Eugene H. Baird or
dered that their families be ousted.
Somerset, Pain a verbal orief
setting strike precedent in non-union
mining fields, Judge John A. Berkey,
Somerset county, declares that deputy
sheriffs and operators must stay away
from meetings of the miners union.
The order was issued at the close
plication of the Consolidated Coal Co.,
a Rockefeller enterprise, whose
Somerset county properties are being
shut down, for permanent injunc-
tion restraining the operations of the
United Mine Workers. Just after the
Judge announced that he would tenn
porarily continue the injunction till
the ten other plaintiff companies had
been heard he rose to his feet and
said:
"I consider that the most dangerous
thing l have heard today is the evil
dence about the presence of armed
guards and company officials at the
miners meetings. l direct deputy
sheriffs and mine operators to stay
away from these meetings, and if they
think any violation of the iriu ton
is occurring they shall seek an attach
ment from The court"
After the evidence in the ten other
cases is in Judge Berke. will set
date for final argument on the legal
technicalit' 'es Of the case and will rem
der his decision On policy at that time.
New York-Organized labor in New
York is pr sparing to give immediate
assistance to the $4,000 coal miners
and their families in West Virginia,
both union and non-union. VINO are
destitute and facing starvation as a
result of the attempt of the mine
owners to crush the United Mine
Workers OF America in the West Vir-
ginia fields.
Mo- hi 1rrfo 10
other shelter will be loaned by the
war department to striking coal
miners, unless congress orders the de.
partment to take that action, the sec
retary to the chief of staff announced
in answer to the request of John
Brophy, president, District No. 2, U.
M. w. A., that 1000 tents be sent to
the central Pennsylvania region. where
strikers families are being evicted
wholesale.
The army holds that it cannot, un-
der the law, furnish relief to any but
the victims of sudden natural diaster,
such as fire or flood. Congress has
ordered the loan of tents for reunions
of former soldiers, but not for other
purposes. From the army viewpoint,
eviction of coal miners families is not
in any legal sense a calamity or
emergency.
New York-The joint subcommittee
of anthracite operators and miners
has resumed its sessions here, but has
made no progress other than discus
sing the 10 demands of the miners,
which include 20 percent wage ad-
vance for miners and 81 day pay
raise for common labor. The opin ION
is general here that the operators
representatives are marking time in
order to act in cooperation with soft
coal operators.
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