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42 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
The international auditors of the United Mine
Workers have completed the audit of the books of
Secretary-Treasurer William Green for the months
of August, September, October and November, and
report that the income was $1,010,649.05 and the
expenditures $957,086.26, leaving a halance of
$278,032.30. It is interesting to note that of the
income $307,188.92 was collected by the special
assessment and $310,000 was borrowed from districts
1, 2, 5, 9, 12, 14, 21 and 22. It also is
interesting to note that $764,529.00 was paid out
in strike benefits in districts 8. 10, 15, 17, 19, 20,
23 and 28.
Two cases, which were taken up by the Anthracite
Conciliation board without agreement being
reached, were decided by Umpire Charles Neill recently.
The first sustains the petition of Thomas
Finnerty, an engineer of the Lehigh & Wilkes-
Barre Coal Co., who asks the board to compel the
company to pay him the wages equal to those paid
to the man who operated the motor engine prior
to his taking the position. In the second decision
the umpire refuses to set aside an established
rate of pay for outside engineers at Clinton colliery
of the D. & H. in favor of a rate at another
colliery.
E. S. Brubaker, foreman of tbe Ivy Ridge mine
at Portage, Pa., has furnished $500 bail for his
appearance at the March term of court to answer
charges of violating the mining laws, preferred
by Mine Inspector Thomas D. Williams. It is
alleged that Brubaker failed to measure the air
currents once a week as required by law, that he
failed to see that holes for shelter are provided
and that the ventilation is carried to the face of
the working place in each room.
Annoyed by the many petty strikes which have
occurred within the past six months for small
causes, the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Coal
Co., through Superintendent C. E. Tobey, has
posted notices at the various collieries to the effect
that the mine workeis would be expected to abide
by the agreement in effect between the operators
and miners' union relative to no discrimination
being made between union ancl non-union men in
the mines.
The strike in the Adrian mine of the Rochester
& Pittsburgh Coal & Iron Co., which was called
because several non-union men w-ere at work in
the mine, and which resulted in the company locking
out the men, has been ended by the men accepting
the company's proposition to open the mine
providing the owner was permitted to employ as
many non-union men as before the trouble started.
Lord Balfour of Burleigh, to whom the Scottish
miners' claim for increase of wages was referred
by the Coal Trade Conciliation board, has decided
that the miners' wages shall be advanced by 6%
per cent, on the minimum rate. This equals 3d.
per shift increase, and makes the new wage 7s.
6d. per day. About 90,000 workmen will participate.
On a charge of violating the mining law while
at work for the Manor Coal Co., John Monitka
was arrested by Constable Paul L. Feightner. The
information against Monitka was preferred before
'Squire J. Q. Truxal, of Greensburg, Pa., by Mine
Inspector Arthur Neale. It is alleged the defendant
went past the danger signs.
The election of officers lor District No. 10, United
Mine Workers, the state of Washington, according
to the unofficial returns is as follows: For
president, Martin Flyzik, 3,215 votes; Thomas
Russell, 1,631 votes. For vice president, Ernest
New-sham, 2,481 votes; Lee Bullick, 2,088 votes.
For secretary-treasurer, William Short, 2,645 votes;
Andrew Hayton, 1,956 votes.
Governor Hatfield of West Virginia will likely
be called upon to settle a controversy existing between
the Signal Knob Coal Co., of Ansted, and the
miners who have been on strike since Sept. 1. The
conciliation board failing to reach an agreement on
the matter has ordered that the case be presented
to the governor for adjustment.
Miners' Examining Board Nos. 1 and 2 met at
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Jan. 2 and 3. to issue miner
certificates. The two boards issued 27 certificates
and refused certificates to 73 who failed to answer
the necessary questions. On Jan. 2 and up to
noon Jan. 3, the boards issued about 40 certificates
and turned down 70 applicants.
George F. Wilson, former secretary-treasurer of
the United Mine Workers at Herrin, 111., who is
alleged to have embezzled $11,000 of the minersmoney,
and who has been missing for two years,
was arrested at Spokane, Wash., recently.
William Cory & Son, English coal factors, plan
to issue 250,000 shares of a par value of £1, to
be offered to the employes at par. The employes
may subscribe to any amount of shares from one
to 100.
Over 200 miners employed by the Nay Aug Coal
Co., Scranton, Pa., went on strike Jan. 2, over an
alleged shortage in their pay.
Coal bargemen in New York harbor have gone
on a strike for an increase in wages from $50 to
$60 per month.