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WEST VIRGINIA
COAL MIN RS
ORGAN1 (NG
WILLIAMSON, W. Va., Aug. 5 (by
Associated Press).—The campaign of
the United Mine Workers to organ
; ize the 5,000 miners in the Mingo
county bituminous coal field has pre
cipitated a situation which each side
declares it can only end when it has
won a complete victory. In the con
flicts growing out of this move 12
or more persons have lost their
lives. Wages, apparently, form a
secondary consideration, the battle
being waged around recognition of
the union and the right of mine em
ployers to employ private detectives
in and around the mines.
“The men and the operators could
get together ai^d settle this thing
were it not for the question of the
mine guards,” said Charles F. Keeney,
president of District No. 17, United
Mine Workers, who is in command of
the union forces. “But in their pres
ent temper these men are not to be
fooled with. Right now this situa
tion is a powder mill.”
There is not a mine guard m Min
go county, and there has not been
for years,” said George Bausewine,
secretary of the Coal Operator’s Asso
ciation, of Williamson. “Private de
tectives are employed as other cor
porations employ detectives for in
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telligence work in and around their
properties. They are not used for
guarding the mines.”
The question of wages hinges on
the scale paid in the Kanawha field.
The union leaders declare that the
adoption of this scale would increase
the earnings of the miners in Mingo,
while the operators insist that their
miners, under the new scale now in
’ force, are being paid more than it is
possible for the Kanawha miners to
earn. However, little attention is be
ing paid to that phase of the con
troversy. Recognition of the union is
the big issue.
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Mingo county and the mines along the
Kentucky side of Tug river, a shallow
and narrow stream which for miles
in this region forms the boundary
between Kentucky and West Virginia.
High mountains rise abruptly on each
side of the river, their sides covered
with a growth of bushes. Along the
mountain sides are the drift mines
from which comes the coal and nest
ling in the narrow valley are the
little towns where live miners and
their families.
Fully 75 per cent of the miners in
the region are native born, many of
them the descendents of pioneers
who are proud of their lineage.
Some foreign-born miners can be
found in the camps, while numbers
of negroes are employed. Often the
miner owns a small acreage, for
which in the planting and harvesting
_ season he will abandon the mines.
• In some places the miners live in
brick cottages, each having its own
garden plot and front porch. Such
a village is Bordentown, where early
this month miners were fired upon
from the mountainside while going to
work. In other villages “the houses
are of frame construction, each set
in its own garden plot, and for which
the miners pay at the rate of two dol
lars per month per room.
Williamson, the center of the
region,, is pleasantly placed in the
valley, with substantial buildings and
good stores. The Mingo county court
house is one of the best structures,
but the city hall also is a complete
office building, while there is in
course of construction a theatre cost
ing $250,000. The 8,000 residents of
the town very generally enjoy the
prosperity which has come to the coal
trade in the past few years.
Early in the year the movement to
organize the United Mine Workers
was inaugurated by President Keeney
from district headquarters at Charles
ton, and organizers were sent to
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Mingo county. They met with such
success that a demand was made upon
the operators for the enforcement of
the Kanawha scale and recognition
of the union. This demand the oper
ators refused, and the union called a
strike. The order, mine operators
say, was answered by from 1,500 to
1,800 miners, but union officials put
the figure higher.
The companies, through their law
yers, took the position that the
houses built for the miners who had
gone on strike reverted at once to
the owners.
The miners, in some instances, held
that if the companies wanted the
house of a man they must obtain pos
session by due process of law.
Numbers of miners were evicted
from company houses, and it was for
that purpose private detectives, “mine
guards” the miners term them, were
sent to Matwan, June 19, and where
in the fight which followed the evic
tion of five families, 10 persons were
killed?
Many miners, however moved from
the company houses without protest,
and the United Mine Workers estab
lished for such persons tent colonies
along the Tug river near the places
of their former employment. Here the
men and their families live in army
tents, and there they declare they will
stay until th strik has b nsttldtaoi
stay until the strike has been set
tled and they have returned to work.
MINIATURE YACHTS
KEPT CROWD POSTED
ON RECENT CUP RACE
SEATTLE, Aug. 5 (by Associated
Press).—Rigged in precisely the same
manner as the Resolute and the Sham
rock IV, two tiny models of the Amer
ica’s cup racers, suspended from
wires leading across the street from
the second story of the Seattle Times
building, kept the throngs belowr in
formed on the progress of the inter
national yacht races.
The hulls of the little yachts wore
two feet in length and painted similar
to the cup defender and challenger.
The Resolute model flew the Star
Spangled Banner, while the British
ensign fluttered from the little green
boat. They moved forward as the As
sociated Press bulletins indicated the
position of the racers.
The dires on which the models tra
veled were stretched to correspond to
the race courses, and the miniature
sloops progressed true to scale from
start to finish while their admirers
cheered and argued fervidly on the
sidewalks and streets below.
GASOLINE IS STOLEN
FROM ROCK CRUSHER
HOOD RIVER, Aug. 5.—Thieves
emptied the gasoline' tank of the
county rock crusher at Dee, delaying
road work of the district. Officials
are watching for gasoline bootlegging
operations and hope to apprehend
thieves.
The gasoline famine here remains
unrelieved, but the Standard Oil Com
pany hopes to make allotments soon
in case of arrival of car at this place.
New and Second-hand Un-called-for
Suits for sale at Peyser’s Tailor Shop.
Developing and printing for the
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Just Arrived—A shipment of the
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