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49 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
! c 237,099 Mine workers of sub-district No. 4, Ohio, have
wLnerteonard'coalCo.^:^^^ 1-2^773 elected these officers: President. John Saxton.
Crucible Coal Co 120,126 Salineville: vice-president, John M. Paplo, Berg-
Chas W Braznell ' 1 ir '* 642 holz; secretary-treasurer, XV. A. Savage, Amster-
P s.emir Coke Co 109,324 dam; executive board, John Crumley and rFank
Rices Landing Coal '&'Coke Co 50.780 Sutton, Amsterdam; Fred Tolison and James
Reliance Coke Co 30.510 Starkey and J. M. Allintz, Salineville.
Fredericktown Coal & Coke Co 2,904 Secretary-Treasurer Duncan McDonald, of the
Lilley Coal & Coke Co 1 -931 [iijnois Mine Workers, clashed with the other
[ 7T.I" officers of the organization March 0, when he
Total 0,4.i0,S.>1 demande(i that the proposition of loaning the
C. P. Byrne, Inspector. ^ ^ Qf Colorafln $150,000 be referred back to
the membership for a referendum vote.
TWENTY-SIXTH iiiTU-Mixous DISTRICT. Illinois I'nited Mine Workers at their conven-
Pittsburgh Coal Co 2,326,138 fion went on record as opposed to the National
National Mining Co 980,963 Buard, in favor of having a paper of their own,
Pittsburgh-Buffalo Co 546,503 an(] abandoning a district wage settlement until
Meadow Lands Coal Co 541,744 the (-entral competitive conference agrees on a
United Coal Co 420,471 basK. KagP scale.
Youghiogheny & Ohio Coal Co 411,432 ^ ^ ^ ^ . ^ Qf Deputie_ ,_ _t p_egent
McClane Mining Co 160,000 ^ ^ & ^ __ t a bj i s h i n g _ fuud £or minerg.
Pryor Coal Co 106 179 l' ensiolls which has been returned to the Chamber
Avella Coal Co ....... • trom the Senate. The bill assures at once a
Pittsburgh & Southwestern Coal (o... 102,200 Pstlmatpd at between 600 and 700 francs
John M. Greek & Co.. 48,581
Waverly Coal & Coke Co 33,000
McClane Coal Co 23,193
Miscellaneous Companies 19,430 DECREASE IN NUMBER OF FATAL
ACCIDENTS IN WEST VIRGINIA MINES.
Tofal The number of fatal accidents reported at the
P. J. CALLAGHAN, Inspector. _ffic_ ||f Kay] A HellrVi cnief of the state
_ _ _ _ ^ - „ „ ~ ~ ~ — — — — — — — - Department of Mines of West Virginia, for the
ji LABOR NOTES I month of February, shows a decrease that is
_JjL____________^_^_-_-_,^_„„--,~~„~~~~~—iL most gratifying. Of the 23 deaths reported as
Unofficial returns of the election of officers of having occurred at the mines during the month
a total o£ 22
District No. 8, United Mine Workers (Indiana °^ took l" ace in Jan " a "'- leavm «
.. , „, „ „ „f D,.0.;i T^ri for the month recently ended. Of these two oc-
Block) show* that Thomas Powell, of Brazil, lnd., ,,_,_. ^
T _, t i,„-„„ „;„_ curred from explosions at a considerable distance
was elected president; James Foster, chosen vice ,,,.__••.
president, and Edney Buck, of Carbon, secretary- *">__ the mines, but were included in the Detreasurer
The international board membership Partment s report. Compared with the record o
, ,^ i 4.%. «_!-i „„,,„.• ....ii K_ ,,or. 38 deaths for the month previous, and that of
is vet in doubt and the official count will be nec-
, ., 33 for February, 1913, the department has every
essary to decide.
Judge John C. Haymaker, of Pittsburgh, apreason
to be encouraged over the report tor the
Past month.
pointed Alexander Waugh, a miner, as a member A classification shows that of the 23 fatal acof
the examining board to pass upon the applica- cidents, four occurred on the outside and 19 on
tions for certificates for mine foreman, assistant the inside of the mines, while death came to nine
mine foreman and fire boss, in the Seventeenth from falls of slate and coal, six from car and
Bituminous District of Pennsylvania. He sue- motor accidents, two from electricity, two from
ceeds Robert H. Heath, resigned. explosions, two from falls in the shaft, one from
machinery and one from the kick of a mule. And
The biennial convention of the Miners of the the usual percentage was due to the disregard
Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas district, No. 21, referred
a resolution to assess the members 10 cents
of warnings and orders.
per month for the support of the striking Michi- T. Riley Huffman and George E. Rice, of
gan copper miners, to a referendum vote of the Waynesburg, Pa., have sold to the Bixler Ohio
district. The convention will meet in Ft. Smith, Coal Co., 500 acres of coal in Belmont county,
Ark., in 1910. Ohio, for $37,500.