Evening star., 1933-08-09
FRESH GRIEVANCES FOUND.
Appeal to n. X. A. Keeps Some Miners
Out-SO Per Cent at Work.

Out-SO Per Cent at Work.
UNIONTOWN, Pa, August 9 CP.-
While most Of Southwestern PennSyl-
vanla's striking coal miners lighted their
lamps today and filed back to the pits
fresh grievances cropped out in an H. C
Frick Coke Co. mine at Grindstone,
causing direct appeal to the N. R. A
in Washington.
Two hundred miners at Colonial
No. 4, scene Of violence last week. hur-
riedly dispatched message to Edward
F.. McGrady. N. r. A mediator, claim
ing mine officials refused to recognize
their check Weighman and their Miners
Committee.
After the men had stood about the
mine mouth for several hours and nc
reply had come from McGrady, special
deputies ordered them to either go to
work or get of company property.
The miners retired without protest
to natural amphitheater nearby. where
they hold meetings. They plan a session
this afternoon to consider future action.
Meanwhile Duncan McCallum, Gov.
PinchOt'S private secretary, and Joseph
Washington. the executives personal
representative in the strike area. are
trying to reach McGrady by telephone.
weighman and the committee were not
the ones previously elected by the min
ers and asred upon by company repre-
SentatiyeS.
Similar Situation Elsewhere.
Similar situations developed at the
company's Filbert mine and at mines
of the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Co.
and the Pittsburgh Coal Co. in South
ern Allegheny and Washington Coun-
ties. At the Filbert mine it was under
stood the miners went to work in spite
of their protests. Meetings are sched-
uled today at Pittsburgh Terminal and
Pittsburgh Coal properties to attempt
to settle the difficulties.
The message sent to McGrady by the
GrindStone miners, signed by the COM
mittee which was refused recognition
said:
I'VE. the miners of the H. c. Frick
sented our checkweighman to Mr..
Smith, the official representative Of the
company (mine superintendent this
morning and were fatty refused recog-
milton.
He also stated he would not rec
ognize our mine committee, that the
company has its own committee. The
men are waiting at the mine pending
telegraphic word from you
Frick Co. officials said 80 to 80 per
cent of their men returned to work IN
some Is Fayette County mines, in the
heart of the strike zone.
No picketS appeared and according
to available information the men went
to work unmolested. The National
Guard, stationed in the district since
shortly after the outbreak of the strike,
patrolled the area in cars and kept a
guard posted at Colonial No. 4.
Wild cheers greeted McGrady yester-
day after he few from Washington
carrying an appeal from President
Roosevelt that the miners go back to
work. Meeting in Uniontown, the men
were prepared to reject again, as they
did Sunday, plea to take up their
picks.
Quickly Changes Minds.
The Roosevelt plea quickly changed
the minds of the leaders, and locals
without protest, ratified their decision
to re-enter the mines today for the
first time in two weeks.
Both miners and mine operators look
to Washington for ultimate settlement
of the dispute over demands for COM
pany recognition of the United Mine
Workers which began two weeks age
with a walkout in the mines of the
H. C. Frick Coke Co. and spread to
virtually every mine in Southwestern
Pennsylvania, heart of the country's
soft coal industry.
Operators object to recognizing ma.
tionally organized unions. which they
claim are taking millions of dollars
annually out of the coal industry with
out capital investment, and favor
company organized unions, q recent
innovation.
Under terms of the truce reached
in Washington last week the miners
are to lay their problems before board
appointed by the President pending
acceptance of the coal code. Miners
are to employ their own check weigh
men to calculate the amount Of GOA
produced. upon which their pay de-
pends.
Coal code-builders gather in Wash
ington today. watched with vital in
terest by men In the coal fields who
are preparing for general resumption
of activity. The H. C. Frick Coke Co
announced opening Of is mines imme.
d.ately, employing 5000 men. Othel
workings Of several largeh kencerns ars
r.clared to resume operapns.