The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-25

miners.
Mines which have already elected
delegates are the following Frick
mines: Eatinborn, 4 delegates; Ron
co, S delegates; Lakerome, 3 dele
gates; Filburt, 8 delegates; Grind
stone, delegates; Footdale. six dele
gates. Delegates as follows ere
elected already from the following
Rainey Coal Co. mines Royal,
men; Allison, 5 men, Delegates are
elected from the following Hllman
mines: Tarhill, 2 men; Orient, 8;
Cardale, O. Three delegates are al
ready elected from the Republic
mine of the Republic steel CO.
There are many other mines in
this vicinity which will send delega-
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PITTSBURGH, Pa, July 23.-shn
more proof Of the wage cutting eff
fects of the United Mine Workers
agreement in the Pittsburgh Ter
minal mines is being brought to
light. The miners are just begin
ming to find out what that contract
means, and what the company can
do, with the consent of the U. NJ W.,
to worsen conditions Of the miners
even in violation of the agreement,
bad as it is.
Saturday, eight men on the night
shift at Mine No. 8 of the Pitts
burgh Terminal, at Mollenauer, came
up because their battery lights had
been poorly charged. When they got
to the lamp house, the supefintend-
ent was waiting there for them, and
told them to get new lights, go down
and get their tools-they were fired.
The company wanted coal. and no
excuses were allowed. 81, ---s
Conditions underground are so
harsh now in these mines. that with
327 men working at No. 3, the Sat-
urday production was only. 298 mine
cars of coal, less than car per
man, and with the miners credited
before deductions) with about Slip
a car.
The six men fired and the % who
quit on the night shift Monday (be-
fore the main walk-out) because
the snappers were taken off in No.
2, reported they were credited for
coal mined at the rate of 40 and a
half cents a ton, though the con-
tract is supposed to be for As cents.
They were charged 80 cents for dues
for two weeks, As cents for check
weighman, 40 cents for doctor, sl.25
for insurance, IS for two weeks
rent and 81 for lamps, though the
contract says that lights shall be at
the rate of five cents a day.
At mine No. 8. end it is b led
this ruling applies in al mines Of the
Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co., the
deductions for "impurities" n the
coal have been 500 pounds. per car
since July Is Befora that, the COM
pany was deducting 200 pounds. This
deduction is made on clean coal. If
there really are impurities. the men
are fined in addition, or laid off as
punishment
Another big company is doing the
same sort of thing. Pittsburgh Coal
Company's mine Montour No. at
Library has at the tonnage indi-
rectly to 20 cents a ton on some con-
veyors
HERMINIE, Pa, July 23.-Three
hundred and fifty miners OF West
moreland county, mostly from Her
MIME, Hutchinson, Keystone, Rilton
Hahnton, Edna No. 1 and Edna No. 2
came to the first big mass meeting
in this innsbruck field, to hear Vim
cent Kemenovich, secretary OF the
Central Rank and File Strike Com
mittee. speak on spreading the strike
into this territory. The meeting was
held Wednesday night
The mine bosses came along to
watch, but the miners crowded
around the speaker after the meet
ing, almost refusing to end IL at all,
and asked questions and made sug-
gestions for the beginning Of. strike
action. Wage cuts and screen coal
regulations are big grievances here.
The big companies in this field are
Westmoreland Coal Co., and the Ber-
wind White Company which oper-
ates here under the name OF ocean
Coal Co." .-s~rv