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GOVERNOR TENER OF PENNSYLVANIA
NAMES DELEGATES TO MINING CON­
GRESS.
Governor Tener of Pennsylvania September 6
appointed the following men as delegates to the
American Mining Congress iu Chicago, September
26-29:
E. R. Pettihone. superintendent Delaware & Hudson
Railroad Co., Dorranceton; W. D. Owens, su
perintendent Lehigh Valley Coal Co., Pittston;
Thomas Thomas, division superintendent Lehigh
Valley Coal Co., Wilkes-Barre; H. G. Davis, superintendent
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Coal
Co., Kingston: S. J. Jennings, inspector Pennsyl
vania Coal Co., P'ittston; ('. F. Huber, general superintendent
Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Co.. Wilkes-Barre;
Robert A. Quinn, general superintendent
Susquehanna Coal Co., Wilkes-Barre; W. J. Richards,
general manager, Philadelphia & Reading
Coal & Iron Co., Pottsville; W. H. Davies. superintendent
Coxe Brothers & Co.. Hazleton; Jesse K.
Johnston, general superintendent of the Charleroi
Coal Works. Charleroi; S. A. Scott, general superintendent
of the Monongahela River Consolidated
Coal & Coke Co., Pittsburgh; .1. D. O'Neill, general
superintendent of the Merchants Coal Co., Pitts
burgh; A. W. Calloway, general superintendent of
the Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal & Iron Co., Punxsutawney;
A. D. Harmon, general superintendent
of the Keystone Coal & Coke Co.. Greensburg;
Harry Whyel, general superintendent of the Whyel
Coal Co.. Uniontown; W. R. Calverley, general
manager of the Berwind-White Coal Mining Co..
Windier: O. W. Kennedy, general superintendent
of the Orient Coke Co., Uniontown; Leslie H. Webb,
115 Chestnut street. Philadelphia; Frank H. Bailie.
care H. K. Porter Co.. Pittsburgh, and Leo Gluck,
care Pittsburgh Coal Co.. Pittsburgh.
j LABOR NOTES
William Evans, superintendent of the Jackson
Hill mine, No. 4, at Sullivan. Ind.. has been placed
under arrest on six charges of violation of the
mining statutes as follows: Failure to have water
for use in case of injuiy; failure to provide cots
for injured men; failure to have on hand a supply
of splints for broken bones: working too many
men on one "split" of air: providing no markers
to show a way of escape from the shaft; operating
the mine without a fire boss when there is black
damp in the shaft. One charge of failure to
close a "break through," is filed against James
Brooks, mine boss.
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interests of the organization. This was one of
the questions determined at the annual state convention
whose sessions were concluded at Missoula
recently. The secretary-treasurer was allowed a
salary of $100 a month for attending to the business
of the organization.
It is said that operators in both the anthracite
and bituminous fields of Pennsylvania will rigidly
enforce the child labor law this fall and are already
doing away with the services of boys whom
they suspect of being under age, even if they have
certificates. Boys of 11 may he employed if they
possess certain educational requirements, hut only
hoys of 16 may be employed as long as 58 hours a
week".
As a result of examinations held at Logan. W.
Va.. recently the following men received certicates
entitling them to hold positions as mine
foremen: First grade—James Somers, Fort
Branch, W. Va.; Mat, Gray Hunter. Ethel. W. Va.
Second grade—J. H. Curry. Holden; G. E. Thompson,
Holden; Floyd S. Richards. Logan; Charles
Miller, Holden, and W. G. Whitman. Holden.
For their work during the month of August,
1911, the mine workers in the anthracite region of
Pennsylvania receive an increase of 4 per cent.
on tne rate of wages fixed by the Anthracite Strike
Commission of 1902. The average price of coal at
tidewater was $4.70 in August, and this entitles
the mine workers to 1 per cent, more pay for the
month.
The West Virginia state mining department will
hold an examination for fire boss at Charleston,
W. Va., on Septembe]' 27 and 28. At tbe same
time there will be held an examination for mine
foreman. All persons who are interested in these
examinations should take notice of these dates as
no other tests will he made for possibly a year.
John Buhentan of Jacobs Creek, Pa., has been
placed in jail at Greensburg. Pa., on a charge of
having smoked in the Darr mine, the scene of a
fatal explosion a few years ago.
The union miners of the stale of Washington
have voted to contribute $25.ooo to assist the
strikers in Britisli Columbia.
George Mai'kie of Fayette City. Pa., has been
held for court on a charge of carrying a pipe and
matches into a mine.
The new- coal washing plant of the Alabama
Fuel & Iron Co. at Acinar, St. Clair county. Ala.,
Billings will be permanent headquarters for the has been placed in operation, 100 tons having been
United Mine Workers of America, Distiict of Mon­ washed one day last week. The plant is said to
tana. The secretary-treasurer will maintain have a washing capacity of 2,500 tons a day which,
offices there and will work continuously in the it is expected, will shortly be reached.