The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-08-17
Conference Held With KeeneYS3
Before Final sAct ton NJ; EE
.., Of Operators
LITTLE OPP0S /: j ] ]! !!
Scale Committees of oepat.a
tors and Miners Meet
n. at $3.50 O'clock. sSs

Z. II. Carleton, genera al InansSs l1saI
ager of the West Virginia dis
trict of the Consolida alton Coal &
Co, signed a contrac for his .
company with the CJniteda
Mine Workers at4:15A lock
this afternoon, the new agree
nient to become effect tivesinlS
nediately and opera toms. .toss
be resumed at once on hes
same basis as that.eistingElast9
March. The contract Wlth#thes
solidation was signed for the
union by C. F.. Keeney,s spresis
dent of district red
Mooney, secretary of dIstIacE
II; Nick Aiello presto dent tAot
sub-district q, and B As Scott,
INT terI,at oalds lds111eKIlIplser.SN plesl 6
AT 1926 O'Clock however,. forss
NAL action on the propos 8settlessss
ment with the union had 9been9takss
en- by the Northern WestsssX111rgt ss;
Coal Operators Assocfa ton
opened its session at 1:30 g. .clocclksds
this morning. Howeverstts yas-
said that. the operators Controlling
the majority of the coal TONNAGE
represented in the associations had
agreed to sign the agreement9sa
that the approval OF the esnewsaH aHrsesIs
ment by. the association Was8pr rae
tica1ly certain.
At;4: 80 O. clock, itEwas announced5 e
that the Northern West V1rgIntasS
Coal Operators Assoc att on had
decided to stand by a. resolution
adopted earlier5 in theGday TO pTo:s
tect the men who have been#at9a
work on non-uniont basis twas
said that no assurance OF thetpToS
lection fthese men had beeng
by the union of cials and thatsno
the association until tn Question:
had beenId decid ed on aSmore9sa atiass
factory basis.
AS a result of this acti tssVasaS
conceded that all. of .theS operators
who have not BEEN their
plants will sign, as they viii notsbe
affected by. the over
the protection of the men4WoEking
on Snon.union basis
Mem bers of, the scale BcommltteesR
Of the miners and nd@operatorsSW went
into n session at gtE :!3U 3Us#5OsclCGkS#CnlSSS ~
afternoon. One Of the 3mafnspo pointgs
of disagreeme emit developed, WasSs
the request of some of the opera
tors for sixty days ofsgraces toscon:s
fer with the stockhold lders of their
respective companies Such ansarsSs
rangement, however,swonld enable8
the operators to continue Their
mines on non-union basis, giving
them time to reconsider tho
operation of the mines was ssuccessS
full, officials of the union pofntedM
out. a;ss
N; Many Sign Contracts
Quite aEnumber of the small Err
operators had sign ed dssuppIemsntal
agreements by4 O'Clock his aftsr
noon, these agreements readingas
follows: IS
t.It is hereby agreed by and bes
tween the United Nine VorkeTs
of SAme erica. distric and sub.
district and (name$of Gonpanyl
that the terms, provisbns,Eand
ditions of; the wage scale scontractS
which were in effect Ein such snbsS
district In March Il 922, be- and thes
same are hereby extend ed to- ApriI$
I, 1928, and that. the mine neSoraminess
of the signor OF this isgsuppIementat
agreement shall be eSopeued 1mues
diately upon the executi OF this
agreement. The
Of this suppl EN- entail agreements
proves and accepts the polfpy
by the joint conf Ference ot
min ers and Id nsClsTe1
land, Ohio, August Il, 5,H1922.s