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46 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
LABOR NOTES
John McLenan, president of District No. 15, United
Mine Workers, was re-elected president of the
Colorado State Federation of Labor by the recent
The candidates for the principal offices in the referendum vote. W. F. Hickey was re-elected
United Mine Workers of America in the Pitts­
secretary-treasurer.
burgh, or No. 5 district, are: President, Van Bittner,
Cherry Valley; E. D. Reed, Brownsville; vice Employes of the Bull's Head Coal Co., Scran­
president, P. P. Hanaway, Noblestown; Thomas ton, Pa,, were tendered a complimentary banquet
Robertson, Yohoghany; Leroy R. Bruce, Allenport; by the officials of the company Dec. 4, in celebra­
secretary-treasurer, Robert Wood, Blythedale; Antion of breaking the hoisting record of the mine.
drew Puskar, Imperial; Edward Nichols, Pricedale;
member International Executive Board,
Philip Murray, Monongahela; Abraham Kephart,
Carnegie; Edward McKeown, Houston.
Efforts of union organizers to unionize the coalstripping
field at Booneville, lnd., have resulted in
the Sunlight Coal Co. discharging 30 emjloyes
who had signed an agreement to join the union.
An agreement has been reached between the
Dominion Coal Co. and the Provincial Workmen's
Association whereby the men employed at the
company's mines in Nova Scotia who are now
earning less than $2 a day will have their wages
increased 6 per cent, on the first of January. Certain
other classes of employees will also receive
more pay under the new contract, which covers a
three-year period.
An injunction has been granted in the Allegheny
county, Pa., courts against an organizer of
the United Mine Workers and 28 striking miners
of the Allegheny Coal Co., at Harwick, Pa., prohibiting
them from interfering with men who are
working or desire to work at the mine of the company.
U. S. Judge Dayton, at Philippi, W. Va., sus­
pended sentence on Van Bitner and eight other
members of the United Mine Workers who were
accused of violating an injunction against the organiation
by Judge Dayton.
The 800 men employed in the mines of the Northwestern
Mining & Exchange Co. at Eriton, Jefferson
county, struck during the fortnight because
they objected to working with non-unionists.
Tbe local strikes at Tyler, Sykesville, Big Soldier
and Sykesville shaft mines, in the Central
Pennsylvania field have been settled and the men
are back at work.
At a conference in Pittsburg, Kan., Dec. 1, beAn
effort is being made to reorganize the mintween
representatives of the operators and miners, ing school at Brownsville, Pa., that suspended
prices were agreed on for mining the top vein three years ago because of lack of room to hold
of coal in Cherokee and Crawford counties, Kan. its sessions.
The vein is 30 inches thick. The price agreed
on for solid shooting was $1.45 per ton; for loading
after coal is machined, 60 cents per ton, under
practically the same rules as apply to loading
Because of the discharge of Superintendent of
Motors Hixon, about 400 miners at Rex mines, at
Lafollette, Tenn., went on strike, Dec. 4.
of the lower veins.
In order to combat the high cost of living. Miners'
Local No. 1358, wi'l open a butcher shop and
grocery store at Shenandoah, Pa.
At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the
Connellsville Manufacturing & Mine Supply Co.,
held recently at Connellsville, Pa., the following
officers were elected: President, Rockwell Marietta;
vice president, A. D. Soisson; secretary and
Because of a dislike to the orders that the boats
treasurer, W. H. Soisson; chairman of the board,
must tow "double headers" up and down the river,
W. H. Hugus: general manager, D. F. Lepley. The
the captains and pilots on the tow boats of tbe
following directors were re-elected: Rockwell
Vesta Coal Co., Pittsburgh, went on strike during
Marietta, A. D. Soisson, W. H. Hugus, W. H. Sois­
the fortnight. They want extra compensation
son, D. F. Lepley, Charles Weihe and J. M. Grey.
for the work*.
Earl Henry, chief of the mine department of
About 500 men employed at the Riverside col­ West Virginia, has compiled a statement showing
liery of the Scranton Coal Co. at Archbald, Pa., that there are 70,321 men employed in the state's
went on strike Dec. 3. The miners want a raise
mining industry. Of this number 32,612 are
of 30 cents on a car and when their demands were
Americans; 14,000 are negroes and 23,709 foreign­
refused they went on strike.
ers of wdiom the majority are Italians.
John G. Hayes and associates of Scranton, Pa.,
have purchased the Minooka Coal Co., Minooka,
Pa. The new owners will operate the properties
and use electrical equipment throughout. The
purchase price was $100,000.