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42 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
have notified dealers that orders for winter supplies
must be sent in at once, and that these must
be filled from the daily output, the intention being
to hold intact the stocks already accumulated in
the anthracite fields, and near Philadelphia and
New York. Similar orders were issued in 1900
and 1902.
Hull. Blyth & Co., of London and Cardiff, report
that tonnage is arriving a little more ireely
and the tone of the market continues steady. Best
Welsh steam coal. $3.36; seconds: $3.24; thirds.
$3.12: dry coals, $3.00: best Monmouthshire, $3.12;
seconds, $3.00; best small steam coal, $2.22; seconds.
$2.10: other sorts, $1.92.
KANSAS WAGE DISPUTE ADJUSTED.
At Pittsburg, Kas., September 19, the district
executive board of the United Mine Workers
voted to accept the proposition of the Coal Operators'
Association in the coal pushing wage question.
The proposition follows: "The company
shall pay the miners for the time actually consumed
in the work of pushing the empty car from
the switch on the main entry to the room neck
on the back entry, and in pushing the loaded car
from the room on the back entry to the switch on
the main entry; this time to be paid for on the
basis of the day wage scale, viz: $2.42 per day;
the time to which each man is entitled under the
arrangement to be determined by him and the pit
boss, and failing an agreement by them, to be
settled in the method pointed out in the contract
for adjudicating grievances or controversies."
This proposition is limited to the mines in Kansas,
and does not apply to Missouri mines generally,
where the double entry law has been in
force since 1895.
There are. however, two mines on the Missouri
side of the line. No. 8 at Minden and the slope
mine at Vernon, which are affected. The question,
as far as these shafts are concerned, will be
referred to John Mitchell, head of the miners'
national organization, who is to render a decision
to be binding to both sides. President Richardson
of the district board at Pittsburg, and Assistant
General Manager Shaw, of the Western Coal
& Mining Co., will prepare an agreement of the
facts, to be submitted to Mr. Mitchell.
And They Sprinkled The Mine With Holy Water.
Because a woman entered the Jesus Maria y
Anexae mines in Mexico several hundred miners
went on strike and refused to return to work
until the parish priest went into the mines and
sprinkled all shafts and tunne's with holy water.
It is an old superstition among Mexican miners
that if a woman enters a mine a catastrophe will
follow.
Louise Daly, in male attire, and said to be a
comely woman of 22 with the usual small children
and deserted by her husband, was recently arrested
in a camp of tramps on Whiskey Island,
Cleveland. Two years ago the wretch deserted
her and she told the court she had worked as a
man for a, year in coal mines about Parkersburg.
W. Va. It's one of those sad stories, but the
romance is slightly impaired by the combination
cf Parkersburg. W. Va.. and Whiskey Island.
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That Wilkes-Barre miner, desiring to become a
citizen of the United States, who informed the
i curt that John Mitchell is president of the United
States and governor of Pennsylvania, will have to
wait awhile for his naturalization papers, but it
should at least be seen to forthwith that he has a
union card.
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Alice Thaw. Countess of Yarmouth, will shortly
receive a copy of a Westmoreland county (Pa.)
court citation calling for exchange of some of the
Thaw coal properties, a matter of 225 acres, to
the H. C. Frick Coke Co. Certainly, this will not
estop the countess in her social affairs.
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There will be some coal mines closed near Parkersburg,
W. Va., till they are flooded with holy
water when the story of the deserted woman
working therein reaches any Mexican miners who
may be thereabouts.
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Apropos of coal yard credits: "I say. Clinkers,
why do you keep me waiting so long for the coal
I ordered?" "My dear Blinkers, do you forget
that you take eight months in paying for it?"
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Here's the way they put it in Connellsville, Pa.:
"Field Marshal John Mitchell is drilling his hosts
for another battle with the anthracite coal barons."
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It would be interesting to know the size of that
ancestor's foot who tread on the forming anthracite
beds 10.000 years ago.
ANTHRACITE DISTRICT CONVENTION.
The fifth annual convention at Lykens. Pa., September
25, of the United Mine Workers of the
Ninth district, representing 50,000 mine workers,
passed resolutions demanding an 8-hour work day
and recognition of the union. The convention
declared in favor of the election of the members
composing the board of examiners of applicants
for certificates for mine inspectors in the anthracite
field instead of the appointment by the courts.