Evening star., 1950-02-25
Relief Coal Loaded
For Pittsburgh Under
State Police Guard
By the Associoted Press

without picket interference today
under the watchful eye of State
police conveys.
No pickets appeared at the strip
mine at nearby Imperial where
United Mine Worker members
braved a biting 1o-degree tenn
perature to peel coal from the
frozen earth surface.
Truckers moved the coal along
a winding 3-mile backwoods route
to the tipple. The early morning
darkness was pierced by the fiery
light Of huge bonf1res at either
end of the route to warm the
truckers.
The coal was loaded into the
tipple and then dumped into rail-
road cars which will move the
needed fuel into Pittsburgh, 18
miles away.
1000 Tons Moved.
William Aloe, head of the strip
operation, said 1000 tons of coal
were moved into this coal and steel
center by the same method yes
terday.
State police set up an elaborate
protection system for Mr.. Aloe's
truckers but Mr.. Aloe protested.
1--WE don't want police protec-
tion. The miners won't work if
the police are there"
The IS miners employed by Aloe
are covered by a Kentucky agree
ment" contract signed with John
L. Lewis last November.
The Kentucky agreement is the
name given the pact Mr.. Lewis
negotiated first with a group of
Kentucky operators. It increases
miners pay from $14.05 a day to
SIS and the royalty payment from
20 to 35 cents ton. These agree
ments cover 10000 UNIV diggers
in scattered areas.
State police said they acted on
the request. of Pittsburgh coal
merchants who said previous at
tempts to bring coal in by truck
have been stopped by stone throw
ing pickets.
Windshields Smashed.
Police said windshields of sew
sral vehicles were smashed yester-
day at the mine. No one was
injured and there were no arrests.
A few hours after State police
announced they would send 20
men and seven radio equipped
cars to convoy the trucks, the plan
drew the fire Of a Pittsburgh UNIV
official.
John Dresmich, an international
representative of the union, de-
clared:
Miners don't like to work under
State police protection.
If the diggers learn that the
coal they mine is being hauled
with a State police escort they're
apt to walk off the lob and then
there would be no coal for the
trucks to haul.
We're trying TO help out the
city Of Pittsburgh as much as pos
sible. but I don't know what will
happen to our efforts now"
Violence Closes Maryland Mines.
There was violence elsewhere in
the coal fields. Three small coal
mines near Oakland, Md, were
closed temporarily because of dam
age inflicted by band of $50
rowing pickets.
The pickets. riding in 16 cars,
bearing Maryland and West Vir-
ginia license plates, also toured
the Allegheny front mining sec
ton across the line in West Vir-
ginia yesterday No major dam
age was reported there, however.
The three mines damaged are
owned by Ray Blackburn. Roscoe
Lantz and Paul Bachtel. They
are within or 3 miles of one an
other
"Shots Fired in Kentucky.
Kentucky State police reported
today that a volley of shots was
fired last night into the tipple
of the West Kentucky Coal Co. S
East Diamond mine. 8 miles east
Of Madisonville. The company,
one of the biggest coal producers
In the West Kentucky field, has
been operating with non-union
men.
Wives of some striking miners
planned to meet at Amigo, w. Va,
today to make certain their hus-
bands don't go back to work with
out a contract.
If they do, the women said, they
face a strike at home.
They'll have to build fires, cook
their own food. wash their own
clothes, and do all the house
work." said Mrs. Haynes Hay
worth. "They will even have to
hire baby sitters."
Her husband is treasurer of
United Mine Workers Amigo
local. She called todays meeting
at union hall to form a women's S
auxiliary.
Emergency Growing.
AS the coal emergency grew
more acute throughout the Ma
ton, a 600-member UNIV local
at st. Michaels, near Johnstown
telegraphed President Truman
last night asking Federal seizure
of the struck bituminous mines.
The telegram said:
Neither injunctions. fines nor
bayonets can drive the miners
back into the deep damnation OF
the mines without a contract.
1--WE insist that a satisfactory
agreement be executed between
the Government and the United
Mine Workers of America"
Meantime. layoffs in. coal-allied
industries threatened to pass the
100000 mark if the strike con-
tinues past Monday.