The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-04-08
FUND
OF MINERS AT
80 MILLION

+ actor In Winners Adj
ity To Keep Up Sus-
pension
Charleston. w. Va, April S.-Union
officials of districts II and 10 United
Mine Workers were devoting their
efforts today to personal inspection
tours Of the southwest Virginia fields
and to organization mass meetings.
They report that mine at Mattewan
! had been closed down by the walk
cut OF the non-union workers. William
son operators claimed a production of
Z 1900 tons yesterday. with all mines
working at normal capacity.
/ Logan, Pocahontas and Fairmont re
gion output was also said to be nor
nal by the operators. Five mines
. in the KGnahaw region We're to be
open today, they added, in addition
to the IS previously operating.
Union headquarters at Beckley re,
ported that two or three non-union
mines in the Winding Gulf field had
closed when the workers, under un-
ion solicitation laid down their tools
The first arrest growing out of
I the strike situation was reported
| from Greenwood when a strike SYM
pathizer was taken by deputy sher-
I if charged with having assaulted a
non-union miner.
All but the Panama mine in Mar
shall county were reported last night
| tC be closed.
/ Cumberland. Md. April S.-Repre-
sentatives of the miners Of the Mary
land and upper Potomac West Vir-
ginia) coal fields who were requested
ito meet in conference with num-
Der of operators have replied that
nothing can be done until a basis
IS established in the central compe-
titive field Which is necessary in
order to stabilize the coal industry"
Labor is not losing it's grip in this
section. notwithstanding reports to
the contrary declared President Frank
Drum of the union district.
The Western Maryland railway re
ported yesterday that "a cars loaded
| in the upper Potomac, SO in Somerset
and II at mines between Cumber
land and Connellsville. The loading
at Bayard, w. Va, called the storm
center of the upper Potomac, was
repcrted to be four cars, 200 tons.
Union leaders denied that any miners
here had seeded from the union con
tradicting reported statements of the
operators.
More than five hundred employees
of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad,
working on the west end of the Cum
berland division between Keyser and
Grafton, have been furloughed on
account of strike depression. The
Western Maryland railroad payroll
will be cut $4,000 from the effects
of the shopmens and miners strikes.
an official stated.
Pittsburg, April s. Earnest eff
forts to paralize non-union operations
in the most eastern part OF district
No. five. United Mine Workers of
America and the western part of the
Central Pennsylvania district are be-
ing pushed by union leaders repre-
sentatives from West Moreland, Fay
ette and Somerset counties.
Officials of the miners organiza-
tions last night invaded the Zanor
coal field in Somerset county and en-
rolled 253 of a possible 400 miners
Oh oNilhC dSolhol q iVuuSbAOh Ch
wages. The miners employed by
the Imperial coal mining company
at Seward, also. numbering about
$50. were organized.
Competition of the organization of
miners at Revloc has been effected
it was reported that the mines of
the Berwiud-White Coal company
at Windsor will be closed today. Cairn
brook field is said to be almost com
pletely organized and only two small
mines of a total of nine were oper-
ating Yesterday with a reduced force
Indianapolis. Ind. Anril Side
coal miners of the country. starting
today and continuing next week. re-
reive their last pay. estimated at
100000. 900, by union officials and re-
garded by them as a strike fund.
The big distribution, an important
factor in the miners' ability tn con-
tinue the general suspension of work
that ttooan . week 700 m tho order
Of the United Mine Workers of Amer
ica. is for The firal hoif cf MHrch--
IN all. fifteen working DAYS. The big
sum is several times the total cash
reserve of the organization-natio
al. state and local-and comes to the
mincrs with an indefinite reriod of
id'eness ahead of them. II is the
only big cash payment that will come
during Tho suspension, the union war
chest not permitting any general
strike benefits
As most of the anthracite mines
were kent on full time in March and
the hituminous mines generally on
Grated almost two-thirds of the time,
the mipers' last paw is among the
best sums the men have received for
several months. The exact amount
ard its apportionment in various coal
6a1ds "a mot eartain huf William