The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-07-10
B Of UC Must Pdy
Benefits To Miners
Renewed of Injunction Re-
fused By Ohio Supreme


by the Ohio Bureau of Unemployment
Compensation of checks totaling
$269,811.54 to 6,145 Ohio coal miners
for the six weeks they were unem-
ployed during controversy with
their employers early in 1889.
This was made possible today at
Columbus when the Ohio Supreme
Court refused to renew temporary
injunction restraining the Bureau of
Unemployment Compensation from
paying the benefits. The court an
nounced it's refusal after it heard
lengthy arguments on the suit of 22
Ohio coal operators for the injunction,
which expired at noon.
The case was carried to the Ohio
Supreme Court June 2l after the
Second District Court of Appeals had
dismissed temporary injunction
granted in the spring of 1910 to 23
coal operators preventing H. G. At
kinson, Administrator of the Bureau
of Unemployment Compensation, from
issuing checks to the miners.
Administrator Atkinson said the
Bureau Immediately started writing
checks, and that they will be mailed
as they are completed. Miner-claim-
ants should receive their benefit pay
ments within the next few days, he
added.
The miners are being compensated
for a period of unemployment from
April l to May Is, 1889, during ne
gotiations with the operators for a
new work agreement.
At the time the miners filed their
claims for benefit payments, the Bu-
reau ruled that the cessation of labor
was "strike." Strikers are not eli
gible for unemployment compensation
benefits. However, this determination
was appealed to the Bureau Of Un-
employment Compensation Board of
Review by the miners, and the ruling
was reversed.
The Lorain Coal and Rock Co. and
% other coal operators involved, then
appealed the ruling of the Board Of
Review to their respective common
pleas courts. Later, the % operators
joined the filing of a petition for an
injunction in the Franklin County
Common Please Court. They obtain
ed temporary restraining order,
March "a, 1910, preventing the BUG
from making any payments pending
determination of the separate ap-
peals.
The appeal of one of the 23 opera
tors, the U. S. Coal Co., was heard
in the Cuyahoga County Common
Pleas Court and decided in favor of
the miners. The court ruled there
was no strike and upheld the BUG
Board of Review. This decision was
sustained by the Fifth District Court
of Appeals. The Ohio Supreme Court
refused to review the case, making
possible the payment of $21 900 in un-
employment benefits to 900 U. S.
Coal Co. employees, March 27, 1941.
When, in the fall of 1910, the
Franklin County Common Please
Court dissolved the temporary injunc-
tion issued to the coal operators in
the joint case, the operators carried
the matter to the Second District
Court of Appeals. A new temporary
injunction was obtained restraining
the payments by the BUG.
In dismissing this injunction, the
Second District Court of Appeals
stated in a two-to-one decision that
the issues involved were the same as
in the U. S. Coal Co. case.
| Miner-claimants in II different
areas of Ohio will receive benefit
checks. These areas, the number to
get benefit checks and the amounts
to be distributed follow:
Bridgeport, 3,0SS, $132, ,S65.62;
Cambridge, 221, $5937.33; Canton, II,
$741.60; Cleveland, 2, $12l21; Colum-
bus, 8, S152.36; Cochoston, l, $14;
Dayton, /, $3675; East Liverpool, 8,
$522.50; Elyria, 1, $40; Findlay, 1,
500; Logan, 954, Sal ,992S4; Marietta,
1, $3.50; Marion, /, s17.2O; Newark
1, S2775; New Philadelphia, 81, ST.
715.35; Stuebenville, 1872, $S4 ,023. .13;
GAINESVILLE, 4, $77.34; and interstate
claimants, u, $423.O6.
Coal operators involved are, the
Lorain Coal and Dock Co., the Ohio
and Pennsylvania Coal Co., the New
York Coal Co., Warner Fuel and Sup
ply Co., George M. Jones Co., Flor
ence Coal Co., the Midvale Coal Co..
the Massillon Tuscarawas Coal Co..
the Hanna Coal Co., the Warner Col
lieries Co., the J. H. Somers Coal Co.,
the Youghiogheny and Ohio Coal Co..
the Powhatan Mining Co., the Steu-
benville Coal and Mining Co., the
Akron Coal Co., the Monaco Mining
Co., the Fremont Coal Co., the J. G.
Thomas Coal Co., the Wheeling Town
ship Coal Mining Co., the Hooking
Valley Coal Co., Ray Rickes, D. B
A. Fickes Coal Co., Leonard E. Bill
man, D. B. A. Billman Coal Co.
Between S250,O0O and 100000 in
unemployment benefit payments to
approximately 1000 Ohio miners idle
during the mine shutdown Of April
to 28( 1871, still are tied up because
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