* MAIN ISSUE IN
' WEST VIRGINIA
COAL STRIKE
W1LILIAMSON, W. Va., Aug. 6 (by
Associaed Press).—In the industrial
conflict being waged between the
mine operators and leaders of the
United Mine Workers, the question
Whether all the bituminous coal min
ers in West Virginia shall be organ
^ ized as union men is the main issue.
The miners’ leaders also demand
that the scale of pay now in use in
the Kanawha field be adopted in the
Mingo county bitumious field here.
Charles F. Keeney, president of dis
trict No. IT of the United Mine Work
ers, who is in command of the union
forces, explains the situation here by
■saying.
“There are approximately 55,000 or
ganized miners in West Virginia and
■ 35,000 who have not yet been organ
B -^feed. These unorganized men are
mostly in the counties of Mingo, Mc
1 Dowell, Logan, Raleigh, Mercer and
Wayne, all in the southern part of the
-state, The campaign to organize these
| miner is well under way and we ex
* pect to have it completed before the
snow flies.
f “The men and the operators could
get together and settle this thing if it
were not for the mine guards. They
nre depriving the men of their consti
stutional rights and that brings about
the trouble. Why, I understand the
sheriff of Pike county has deputized
some 300 men and the coal companies
are paying them, while detectives are
on the border between Mingo and
■*■ McDowell counties with rifles and ma
phlno civnci
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“What would happen if an attempt
to operate the mines here with non
union men? I wouldn’t like to say.
But in their present temper, these
men are not to be fooled with. Right
now this situation is a powder mill.
The men have no complaint when the
law is enforced by the proper author
ities. But they will oppose to the
last, the use of private armies en
listed by the coal companies.”
Harry Olmstead, of the Coal Oper
ators’ Association of Williamson, gave
*■ the other side of the controversy.
“The United Mine Workers want
to organize their field,” said Mr. Olm
stead. “and then move on to the
larger and more important fields of
McDowell. Wyoming, Mercer counties,
and what mines have not been organ
ized in Raleigb. These are the last
important unorganized bituminous
coal fields in the country, and with
these organized the union will control
the bituminous production of the
United States.
“They will then be in position to
enforce the demands formulated at
the Cleveland convention last year,
and which they could not enforce in
the general coal strike last year, be
cause our mines in this part of the
state were operating and our men
stuck to their posts. We saved the
country from suffering then because
this field was not organized.
“The Kanawha scale which the
union demands is less than the scale
»we are now paying and I don’t know
that the question of treatment or
working conditions has entered into
the controversy. It is just a question
of the United Mine Workers union
izing the mines, with all that such a
course carries. We object to that, be
cause for a matter of 20 years, we
have enjoyed peace and quiet here
in this field, and I may say that be
cause of this, we have made the suc
i— ^ —:
cess of this field possible.
“All differences have been settled
by operators and miners and settled
satisfactorily. I know of some union
men who have come in here from
union fields but they left just as soon
as the union organizers came in last
spring. I don't believe' there is any
basic union sentiment in the field, be
cause the men have alweys made
good money.
“The mines are among the best :n
the state. We have no gas and con
sequently no explosions and the liv
ing conditions in the valley are good.
“The Baldwin-Felts detectives,
about whom one hears so much are
not employed to guard the property
and in no sense are they mine guards.
In fact there is not a mine guard
in Mingo county. These men are em
ployed by the companies as any cor
poration which does not have its
own intelligence department employs
such men.”
The Mingo district last year pro
duced about 6,000,000 tons of coal
worth about $16,000,000 with the loss
of only six lives, according to J. W.
St. Clair, state mine inspector for
that district.
PRE - HISTORIC WOMEN
EW EMBELLISHMENTS
NECESSARY TO BEAUTY
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 6 (by Associ
ated Press).—Present day girls, with
their cosmetics, orange sticks and nail
powders, may be chagrined to learn
their aboriginal sisters, who disported
themselves beside the Pacific genera
tions ago, knew something about per
sonal embellishments.
A stone “powder puff” found on
Santa Catalina island, together with
a pre-historic toothbrush, is evidence
of the early day activity of the women,
according to Ralph Glidden, who made
the discoveries while searching Indian
graves on the island for the Hayo
foundation.
The toothbrush resembled the mod
ern size, shape and color. The bristles
were gill fibres from the jawbone of
the stingaree. The “puff” probably
would seem heavy today, for although
it looks like the modern bit of down,
it feels like a lump of lead. It was
used, it is said, to crush the ochre
with which the Indians beautified
themselves.
POLO PONIES PROVIDED
FOR CAVALRY TROOP
SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 5 (by As
sociated Press).—Salt Lake troopers
soon will be playing polo, it is ex
pected, as polo ponies are to be fur
nished a new cavalry troop here, ac
cording to a telegram from the war
department. The ponies, it is thought
will be from mounted schools and re
mount stations where the game was
taught.
The Ladies’ Toggery Shop—the O.
T. O.; “Out of the Ordinary,”—Lad
ies’ apparal store. Mrs. Grant Reed
Windsor Hotel. 20-tJ
Kodak finishing. Scarborough.
Ask for quality bread, the City
Bakery’s famous Cream Loaf
In a naturalization hearing before
Judge Jennings of the First division
recently five persons were admitted
to citizenship.
Your eyes fitted. Compound and
stigmatic lenses replaced. See Os
I borne.
KOREANS AND JAPS
BATTLE WITH SPEARS
OSAKA, Japan, Aug. 6 (by Associ
ated Press).—Koreans, employed in
construction of am electric line be- j
tween Osaka and Kobe, clashed with
villagers of Tachibarna. Both the
Koreans and the villagers, it is re
ported, numbered several thousand,
and were armed with bamboo spears
and sickles. Five Koreans were
wounded seriously before the police
stopped the fight. ' The cause of the
clash was not reported.
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