Evening star., 1933-08-09
'ARB|TRAT0RS MAKE
COAL TRADE RULES
TO END GRIEVANCES
Roosevelt Board Issues Reg.
uIations Designed to
Settle Strikes.
BY the Associated Press.

| By the Associated Press.
The Arbitration Board of the Ma
tional Recovery Administration today
issued rules designed to settle the
grievance between operators and en-
ployes of the H. c. Frick Coke Co. at
Grindstone, Pa.
The controversy arose over the
charge by employees that the company
refused to accept their checkweighman.
To settle this, the Arbitration Board,
after hearing today, issued the fol-
lowing rules for the election of check
weighers at the mines of the H. C.
Frick Coke Co. and the National Min
ing Co.:
Notice shall be posted at the mines
giving at least two days notice of the
election of checkweighman.
The meeting is to be held at the
mine entrance at the close of the days
shift.
Shall Elect Chairman.
The meeting shall elect a chairman
ANY person who pays to maintain
the check-weighman shall be entitled
to vote.
ANY person may be nominated as q
candidate for check-weighman.
Voting may be by secret ballot, or
show of hands, or aye and no, as the
majority Of the meeting determines.
The voting shall continue until some
one person has received a majority Of
all eligible votes at the meeting
"All candidates receiving less than
one fifth Of the vote cast on each ballot
shall be eliminated.
These rules shall be posted on the
bulletin beard at the mines at least
two days before the election is to be
held"
Answers Direct Appeal
The ruling was given in answer to
direct appeal to the N. r. A. by a
| miners committee representing several
hundred men. In a message sent to
Edward F. McGrady, labor representa-
tive of President Roosevelt, the miners
asserted the company officials refused
to accept their designations for check
weighmen or to recognize q miners
| committee
Appearing before the board at an
executive hearing today was Thomas
Moses, president Of the Frick company
Also at the board meeting was John
| L. Lewis, president of the United Mine
Workers, and William Feeney, United
Mine Worker president for the district
in which Grindstone is located. The
details of the presentation of the op-
orators and miners cases to the board
were not made public.
The arbitration boards ruling was
signed by the chairman, Swope, and
George L. Berry and Louis E. KRISTEN.
As the board sat down for its first
meeting on the controversy. which had
threatened bituminous coal shortage,
Gerald Swope, chairman, expressed con-
fidence all difficulties would be ironed
out soon.
Louis E KRISTEN, another member
of the Industrial Advisory Board of the
Recovery Administration, and George
L. Berry, president of the Pressmen's s
Union and a member Of the Labor
Advisory Board, are the other members
of the Cancellation Board.
number of papers and Immediately be-
gan presenting his side.
First Felt Strike.
It was the Frick Company's mines
which first felt the effects of the strike,
and reports today from Pennsylvania
showed the conflict still on between the
management Of the company and the
miners despite the agreement signed
last week under pressure from Hugh
S. johnson, recovery administrator
Meanwhile the N. r. A. found itself
plunged at once into the union versus
non-union controversy Of the coal fields
at the opening of hearings on the ~
proposed codes for governing the in
dustry
Confronting the room crowded to the
doors with coal men and curious spec
tators, Charles O'Neill Of New York.
ruddy-faced vice president Of Peale,
Peacock and Kerr-a firm operating In
Central Pennsylvania-presented the
non-union proposal, representing well
over half the Nations tonnage.
| It was submitted by the Northern
I Coal Control Association and the
Smokeless' Appalachian Coal Assoc1a-
/ ton. The interests of these reaches
from Pennsylvania to Tennessee.
Reads Statement.
ONeill slowly read statement show
ing where the mines represented by the
code were located and where they sent
their coal
He frequently referred to the multi.
colored maps which covered the wall
around the stage of the large Com
merce Department Auditorium.
! ONeill said the membership OF the
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