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38 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
Federal court at Charleston, W. Va., Nov. 18, were COAL COMPANIES FILE COMPLAINT AGAINST
continued on order of the Department of Justice. WABASH-PITTSBURGH TERMINAL RAIL­
WAY.
The Heidelburg colliery at duPont, Pa., operated
by the Lehigh Valley Coal Co., is idle. One thou­
The Interstate Commerce commission Nov. 22
sand men and boys went on strike Nov. 20 because received a complaint made by Attorney William
one miner refused to join the union.
S. Moorehead, representing the Pittsburgh & Southwestern
Coal Co., the Pryor Coal Co., the Waverly
Disorders are repcrted again from the Cabin Coal & Coke Co., and the Avella Coal Co., all of
creek field of West Virginia and it is intimated Washington county, against the Wabash-Pittsburgh
the state authorities are considering the question Terminal Railway Co., and some of its connections.
of returning troops to that district.
In the suit the petitioners claim that to get
Daniel L. McCue, of Pittston, Pa., has announced
his candidacy for the international executive
board of the United Mine Workers as the successor
to the late John Fallon.
their coal shipped it must be sent from the mines
in Washington county to a point on the West
Side Belt railroad, a distance of 25 miles, and
then re-shipped to destination. For this short
haul a tariff of 30 cents per ton is charged by the
The 700 miners employed at the Tyler operation railroad.
of the Cascade Coal & Coke Co. went on strike The complainants further aver that the defend­
early in the fortnight because some of tne men reant railroad has refused to grant them joint tariffs
fused to join the union.
to points to which coal operators along the West
Side Belt railroad have joint rates. It is also
Miners at the Big Soldier mine of the Rochester
alleged that operators along the West Side Bell
& Pittsburgh Coal & iron Co. to the number of
line have joint rates to markets of least competi­
300 went on strike Nov. 19, over a dispute on scale
tion which, in order to reach at present, the Wash­
interpretation.
ington county operators along the line of the
The strike of coal niiners at the Berger-Aiken Wabash have to pay 30 cents more per ton on an
mines at Bethel, Pa., was settled Nov. 20, after average to reach.
the men had been idle for more than three months. The petitioners allege that of the 21,600 shares
of the West Side Belt Railroad Co., the Pittsburgh
Two hundred niiners of the Henrietta Coal Co.,
Teiminal Railroad & Coal Co. owns 21,300 shares,
at Dunlo, went on strike Nov. 19 because of dis­
and that the said railroad and coal company is in
satisfaction over pay days.
business along the line of the West Side Belt concern.
NORFOLK AND WESTERN SHIPMENTS. The item referred to as an example is that for.
a ton of coal mined on the West Side Belt line
The following is a statement of coal and coke
and shipped to Depew, N. Y., the rate is $1.25.
shipped from the mines on the Norfolk & Western
while if a ton of coal is mined along the lines of
railway in West Virginia, during the month of
October, 1913:
the W'abash-Pittsburgh Terminal railway and
shipped to Depew, N. Y„ the rate is $1.40.
N. & XV. Field. Coal. Coke.
The complainants also allege that they have
Pocahontas 1,244,484 90,158 been discriminated against in the matter of ob­
Tug River 225,343
taining cars for the shipment of their product.
Thacker 256,801
It is charged that the Wabash-Pittsburgh Termi­
Kenova 86,246
nal Railway Co., especially during March, 1913,
refused to furnish cars to the plaintiffs and that
Total 1,S12,S74 90.15S they were forced to shut down their mines on that
account. It is also alleged that during* this period
cars were delivered to the West Belt operators in
plenty.
The American consul at Madrid. Spain, reports
that the Direccion General de Propiedades e Impuestos
desires bids for supplying the Almaden
mines (lead and antimony), owned by the Spanish
government and operated by an English company,
with mining tools, etc., needed for the year
1914, the value of which is not to exceed $4,560.
All specifications are on file in the Administracion
General de la Minas de Almaden, Almaden,
Province of Ciudad Real. Spain. Proposals must
be submitted by Deeebmer 9.
The Interstate Commerce commission has suspended
from Nov. 19 until March 19 the effective
date of a proposed increase of 32 cents per net
ton on shipments of soft coal from Fleming Mine
and West Mineral. Kan., to South Coffeyville,
Noxie, Wann, Dewey, Bartlesville and Ayetla,
Okla. The present rate is 45 cents and the proposed
rate 77 cents per ton of 2,000 pounds.