The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-19
EASTERN PORTS
FULL OF SCAB
G0AI SHIPPING
Hampton Roads in Boom
with Strike-Breaking
Continued from page u

Pilot, morning newspaper published
in Norfolk, tells the story:
Hampton Roads coal piers
dumped 2,755,556 tons Of coal in
July, setting a worlds record for
volume of coal movement and giving
each Of the three coal terminals a
new individual dumping record.
Something of the magnitude of
last months coal movement thru
this port may be gathered from fig
ures which show that the coal
dumped at the Hampton Roads piers
would fill approximately 2S5 entire
trains of so cars with 100 tons ca
pacity each. At s4.25 a ton, which
is near the price of the coal shipped
thru this port, approximately $12,-
100000 is represented in the value
of the cargoes and bunker coal
which went over the piers during
the month.
"Other charges incident to the
movement of the coal will bring the
actual value of the movement much
higher. The quoted price is for the
coal f. o. b. the piers.
Thousands of Cars.
1.-THE Virginia Railway operates
the largest coal cars in the world,
with 12O tons capacity each. 1t also
operated the longest coal train in
the world, pulling approximately 100
of these 120-ton cars. The coal ham
died thru Hampton Roads last month
would have filed nearly 200 of those
trains.
"The Norfolk & Western piers at
Lamberts Point led the field in dump
ing 1,O66,6S2, which was close to the
normal dumpings for the three COM
bined piers before the British strike
caused an upset in the coal opera
tions of Great Britain The Ches-
apeake G. Ohio piers at Newport
News were second with 53,53S tons,
and the Virginia Railway dumped
1885 tons.
Tops All Records.
1.-THE next highest total in the
Hampton Roads coal movement is
in the record dumping for June, 1921,
when 2,21O,S26 tons passed over the
piers. The Norfolk & Western
piers, which led the field last month,
had a high record of S576O1 tons
dumped in June, 1921. 1t topped
that record last month by more than
100000 tons.
1.-THE piers worked seven days
week, "a hours day, last month in
handling the enormous volume Of
coal. All piers handled the move
ment with dispatch, frequently all
available machinery being utilized
for the accommodation of ships
which crowded into the port turnout
the month for cargoes."
Mine owners are enjoying unprece-
denied prosperity, dispatch sent out
by the Washington bureau of the
United Press news association declar-
ing:
1.-THE British coal strike is bring
ing millions of dollars monthly to
American coal producers"
Ex-Miners' Official Sells Seab Coal.
William B. Wilson, a native of the
British Isles, who became secretary of
the United Mine Workers Of America,
the largest single unit OF the American
Federation of Labor, and who later
held post in President Wilson's cab.
met as secretary of labor, is one of
them. He is interested in Virginia
mines from which coal is being
shipped to smash the strike of the min
ers among whom he was born.
Railroad and steamship companies
are getting the highest rates ever paid
for coal shipments.
Officials Of the railroad brother
hoods, the International Longshore-
mems Association and other craft
unions, including, in certain cases, of
ficials of the United Mine Workers of
America, say the British miners
struggle is helping their members.
Affects Sailors.
The British miners struggle is also
affecting sailors. For years Norfolk
and Newport News were considered
two of the best run" centers on the
North Atlantic.
The sailor who takes run" job
gets paid certain sum for the trip
across the Atlantic, usually two or
three times what he would receive in
ordinary wages. He often gets his
transportation paid back to this coun-
try or port in Europe. The ship
then employs another crew in Europe
at wages much lower than those paid
out OF American ports.
But the British government, altho
anxious to reduce the already pitiably
low wage paid British miners, is will
ing to pay extraordinary wages to
make sure Of labor peace among those
mining and transporting coal to Brit
ain. Satisfied mine workers lin Amer
ica), satisfied railroad workers, salts
fed longshoremen, satisfied sailors, is
part OF It's program.
Sailors Get Raise--For Carrying scab