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• SOME LABOR NOTES. •
A circular which was issued recently from the
headquarters of the Southwestern Coal Operators'
Association, whose members include mine owners
of Kansas, Missouri, the Indian Territory and
one or two other states, instructs the operators
to maintain the position that mine foremen, weighmen
and other employes who are not included in
the membership rolls of the U. M. W. shall do
any and all classes of work in and about the
mines that the operators desire them to do. Officials
of the U. M. W. assert that this constitutes
a violation of the existing annual agreement with
the union, because none of the employes referred
to can belong to the union, and for this reason
should not be called upon to do work that under
the terms of the contract is to be performed exclusively
by union labor.
* * *
It is announced that President John Mitchell, of
the United Mine Workers, will come to Pittsburgh
about the middle of August and spend about
two weeks in the district addressing meetings,
making plans to build up the organization and
preparing a demand for increased wages next
year, when the present wage scale expires. A
meeting of the executive board of the Pittsburgh
miners will be held next week, when plans for
the meetings in this district will be taken up. It
is expected that a general meeting will be held in
Old City hall and that several secret meetings will
be held at different points in the district. One or
two of the national organizers will also be called
to Pittsburgh.
* * *
ted Mine Workers of Illinois for the first quarter
of the fiscal year, beginning Feb. 1, showed
that the amount of cash on hand April 30 had
been increased from the first of the year from
$784,335.64 to $837,572.54. During the quarter,
$4,927.50 was expended for relief and aid and
$16,238.96 was paid into the national treasury.
* * *
One thousand miners are out on a strike at the
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh mines at Yatesboro,
Franklin county, Pa., over objections raised
by the company to the checkweighman. It is
feared the strike will spread to Punxsutawney
and Dubois. The company has announced its intention
to start the Yatesboro mines, and trouble
may result.
• * •
Utah locals 2630, 2631 and 188, constituting subdistrict
of District 15 of the United Mine Workers,
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which were suspended from that organization for
refusing to call off their strike at the command
of the national board, have applied for admission
to the Western Federation of Miners, and been accepted.
* * *
Production is being steadily increased in the
Ensley, Ala., district since the introduction of
milling machinery. Many new miners are arriving
from the north and the employing companies
are erecting exceptionally good homes for
them and otherwise looking after their comfort.
* * *
James Rhodda. of Upper Lehigh, Pa., who was
recently charged with issuing fraudulent miners'
certificates, entered a plea of guilty, but sentence
was deferred until the constitutionality of the
miners' certificate law could be tested.
* * •
Miners at Sullivan and Shelburn, Ind., went on
strike a few days ago, and both mines have been
closed. The strikes were caused by disputes over
strikes, cuts and loading.
RECENT COAL TRADE PATENTS.
The following recently granted patents of in­
terest to the coal trade, are reported expressly
for THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN by J. M. Nesbit.
patent attorney, Park building, Pittsburgh, Pa.,
from whom printed copies may be procured for
15 cents each:
Channelling machines (2), William Prellwitz.
Easton, Pa., assignor to the Ingersoll-Sergeant
Drill Co., New York; 792,287 and 792,288.
The report of the secretary-treasurer of the Uni­
Mine cage, John Herzler, Henry Henninger and
William Fenner, Belleville, 111.; 792,330.
Coal or grain distributing apparatus, C. A. Turner,
Norfolk, Va.; 793,682.
Mining tool, W. J. Furbee, Watson, W. Va.; 792,-
891.
Mine curtain, R. J. Good and G. E. Hall, Canton,
Ohio; 792,893.
Wheel, E. M. Roberts, Ashland, Ky.; 792,929.
Discharger for coke ovens, Carl Schroeter, Chicago;
793,238.
Apparatus for discharging coke, Joseph De
Brouwer, Bruges, Belgium; 793,355.
Automatic mine door, O. W. Lundholm, Des
Moines, la.; 793,452.
Coke oven attachment, D. F. Lepley, Connellsville,
Pa.; 793,668.
Mine door operating device, S. T. Bailey, Mount
Hope, W. Va.; 793,813.