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30 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
AGITATION, EDUCATION AND ORGANIZATION
are the stepping-stones to a higher and nobler
civilization. As the church ancl other institutions
depend, to some extent, upon revivals, so
must the labor movement awaken new hope and
inspiration within the souls of its members. Let
us utilize every weapon at our command in order
that the truths enunciated by our gieat, humanitarian
movement may not go unheeded. Let protest
meetings be held all over this land when labor
is outraged, as witnessed in the Colorado and
Michigan strikes, and let us show to the despoilers
of manhood that deportation and assassination of
union members will not be tolerated without a
fight; and that, if the government will not protect
us, and anarchy must prevail, then the worker will
be compelled, in self-defense, to meet the rich
anarchist, hiding belrind his paid thugs and assassins,
at his own game and in his own way,
until brute force triumphs, as it did in the days of
ancient savagery.
While some designing pessimists predicted the
downfall of our movement, a few years ago, it is
gratifying to note that their croaks were all in
vain, and that, like the fabled groundhog, when
they saw the sun shining brightly all over our
jurisdiction, they saw a shadow at the same time,
that alarmed them to such an extent that they returned
to their holes and haven't been heard of
since, and if it were not for the dirt they pawed
up in making these holes their presence on earth
would never have been recognized. We stand,
today, a solid organization, without factions and
without dissensions, the largest trade union on
this North American continent, thanks to the devotion
of the rank and file to the principles of our
great movement.
CONSTRUCTION and DEVELOPMENT
The Baltimore & Ohio railroad will, it is reported,
build a new branch line from Smithfield,
Pa., to Elm Grove, W. Va., connecting the two
main lines and passing through the Greene county,
Pa., eoal fields.
Robert H. Robinson, George Myford and John C.
Rue have bought 18 acres of Pittsburgh No. 1 seam
coal near Monongahela, Pa., and will develop it at
once. Electric machinery will be installed.
The Graceton Coke Co. will develop 1,550 acres
of coal recently purchased in Greene county, Pa.,
and will erect a coking piant on the 300 acres ol
surface secured.
The Wolf Valley Coal Co., W. H. Soper, general
manager, Winchester, Ky., will develop 1,270 acres
of coal in Breathitt county, Ky.
The Elly Coal Corporation, Girard. 111., will ope
several new mines in Christian and Macoupin
counties, Illinois,
The Hecla Land Development Co., of Ironton,
O., will develop 13,000 acres of coal and clay lands
at Ironton, O.
The Hitchman & O'Neal Co. will open a new
mine on the B. & o. near Markleton, Pa.
The Claeo Mining Co., Poteau, Okla., will open
a new mine at Traby Prairie, Okla.
The output of the Alabama Fuel & Iron Co. for
the year 1913 was 1,069,564 tons, compared with
1,006,378 tons produced in 1912.
COAL MINE ACCIDENTS IN THE UNITED STATES DURING 1912 AND 1913 IN WHICH
FIVE OR MORE MEN WERE KILLED.*
Date. Name of Mine. Location of Mine. Nature of Accident.
1912 Jan. 9 Parrish Plymouth, Pa Mine explosion
1912 Jan. 16 Carbon Hill Carbon Hill, Va Dynamite explosion ....
1912 Jan. 19 Central Central City, Ky Mine explosion
1912 Jan. 20 Kemmerer No. 4 Kemmerer, Wyo Mine explosion
1912 Feb. 22 Western No. 5 Lehigh, Okla Mine fire
1912 Mar. 20 San Bois No. 2 McCurtain, Okla Mine explosion
1912 Mar. 26 led Jed, XV. Va Mine explosion
1912 April 21 Coil Madisonville, Ky Mine explosion
1912 June 18 Hastings Hastings, Colo Mine explosion
1912 July 11 Panama Moundsville, W. Va.. . .Mine explosion
1912 July 16 Old Dominion No. 1 . . . .Carbon Hill, Va Mine explosion
1912 July 24 Superba Evans Station, Pa Cloud burst flooded mine
1912 Aug. 13 Abernant Abernant, Ala Mine explosion
1913 Feb. 19 Seagraves Eldorado, 111 Mine explosion
1913 April 23 Cincinnati Finleyville, Pa Mine explosion
1913 May 6 Taylor Hartford, Ky Overcome by gas
1913 May 17 Imperial Belle Valley, Ohio Mine explosion
1913 Aug. 2 East Brookside Tower City, Pa Mine explosion
1913 Oct. 22 Stag Canon No. 2 Dawson, N. Mex Mine explosion
•Extract from Report of President White, of the United Mine Workers of America to Biennial Convention.
1913 Nov. 18 Acton No. 2 Acton, Ala Mine explosion
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