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40 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
LABOR NOTES
Au agreement, has been reached by (he Pacific
Coast Coal Co. and representatives of 840 mineis
who quit work in the coal mine at Black Diamond
recently alleging that the mine was unsafe, under
the terms of which the men will return to work
immediately, the company to install additional
safeguards. The company also released the mine
foreman to whom the men objected. The question
of the dismissal of the mine supeiintendent,
which the miners also demanded, will be settled
by arbitration.
The strike in the mines of the Lorain Coal &
Dock Co., near Bridgeport, O., brought about by
a dispute over the new Ohio workman's compensation
law, was ended Jan. 17 by a compromise
agreement, in which the company agreed to the
right of the men to be included in the state liability
act while riding to and from work in the
mine.
The Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Co. has issued
an order barring all smoking in its mines, no matter
what section of the mines the man may be employed
in and barring all matches or other means
of ignition from those sections of the mines where
safety lamps are required ta be used.
Louis Busic and Joseph Warmus, of Wehrum,
Pa., were each sentenced to pay a fine ot $100 and
serve 30 days in the Indiana, Pa., county jail for
violation of the niining laws. State Mine Inspector
Nicholas Evans charged the men with
having fired holes with short fuses.
The annual meeting of the ITnited Mine Workers
of America of District No. 21, which includes
Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas and Missouri,
will open in Fort Smith, Ark., Fell. 17. The convention
will extend over a period of three days.
ers returned to work. The demands of the men
were acceded to.
The Bessemer Coke Co, has announced a cut in
the wages of its employes at the Griffin and
Humphreys plants in the Connellsville, Fa., region.
The cut is to the level of 1911.
Miners io the number of 200 are on strike at
the mines of the Creek Coal Mining* Co., Henryetta,
Okla., over tiie question of "back switching"
taii.
COAL LAND SALES FROM RECORDS ij
Umpire Neill of the anthracite conciliation hoard The H. C. Frick Coke Co. has buoght two tracts
has decided the grievance of the employes of the of coal in Fallowfield township, Washington
Drifton colliery of the Lehigh Valley Coal Co. in county. Pa., from Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Emery, of
favor of the employes. The dispute was over the Washington. One contains 105.467 acres and the
reduction of the price of laying read and loading other 29.891 acres. The price is $75,000. The
or shifting gob. The umpire rules that the rate coal adjoins a large tract held by the Frick Coke
of 61 cents per yard for road laying and 61 cents Co.
per car for loading gob, effective before August,
Jane A. Taylor, of Noblestown, Pa., has sold to
1912, be restored.
XV. H. Shinn, of Carnegie, Pa., 52.385 acres of
coal in Smith township, Washington county, Pa.
William H. Moore also has sold to the same gentleman,
33.187 acres and David Taylor 155.749 acres,
all at a private price.
The Safe Deposit & Trust Co., of Pittsburgh, ha
purchased from Edward E. Duff, trustee, 14,386
acres of land in Kanawha and Boone counties, XV.
Va., formerly owned by the Forks Coal Co. The
price is reported to be $124,000.
E. L. Ford, of Youngstown, O., president of the
Youngstown Steel Co., has sold to the Gracetou
Coke Co. 1,550 acres of coal and 300 acres of surface
land in Dunkard township, Greene county,
Pa., at a private price.
M. L. Hupp and associates, of Donegal township,
Washington county, Pa., have sold to Owen Murphy,
of Unity, Pa., 636.525 acres of coal for $31,-
826.25.
The H. E. Davis Co., Winchester, Ky., has sold
to the Wolf Valley Coal Co. 1,270 acres of coal in
Breathitt county, Ky., at a private price.
Noah Blough, of Cairnbrook, Pa., has sold to
H. C. Cook, of Johnstown, Pa.,' 100 acres of coal
near Shade Furnace, Pa., for $25,000.
More rhan 1.000 miners employed in the Blaine W. T. Lambert, of Henderson, Ky., has sold to t
and Lansing mines of the Lorain Coal & Dock Co. Peoples Mining Co., 05 acres of coal in Hender­
at St. Clairsville, O., on Jan. 14 struck because tbe son county for $3,000.
company would not be responsible for injuries under
the new working-men's compensation law.
The official report of State Mine Inspector Wil-
The strike that had been on at Gallitzin, Pa., lam Walters of Maryland for the fiscal year ending
for several weeks was settled Jan, 16 and the min­ April 30, shows that ihe output was 4,0S5,S17 tons.