Evening Star Newspaper, April 1, 1927, Page 4

WOARL OVERRULES REVALLATION LAN Holds Experts Temporarily , Employed Come Under Classification Act. Plans of the Public Utilities | mission to employ valu Statisties on Closing of Bitumineus Coal Mines in Nine States By nm- Associated Press. roa affected — Central com- r@tltl\e fleld, including western Pennsylvavia, Ohio, Indiana and . Hlinois; Southwestern fields, in- cluding Kansas, Missouri, Ar- kansas and Oklahoma; Towa, whk-h is outside of the central \flnrr! lfl‘fl'(ul—llmu! 200, 000, includi linois, ; Kansas, 8, Mlmurl. Indiana, 22,000; Arkansas, l’fln"l’l\lllh, 40,000; Ml.lilolnl. .Bmfll:lm Towa, 9,000, and Ohio, withdraw funds from independent :I‘l!!‘l’ltnrl who plan to continue opera- ons. All efforts toward settlement yester- day met with failure, but several new moves were in prospect, although there was no indication #f a general conference. Both sides in Ohio have made proposals for a meeting but neither camp has replied. Operators and miners in the southwestern field planned to resume negotiations today, with some optimism apparent. W. L. A. Johnson, general commissioner of the Southwestern Interstate Opera- tors’ Association, said that a number of minor phases of the controversy al- veady had been ironed out. 40,000 Out in Pennsylvania. Union officials in Pennsylvania es- timated that 40,000 workers were af- fected in that region, and they main- name who lost his life in a mine riot at Virden, IIL, in 1898, 40,000 IDLE NEAR PITTSBURGH. Union Official Says Miners in District Will Be Orderly. PITTSBURGH, April 1 (#) —Some 40,000 union miners of the Pittsburgh district were idle today, having lett the mines when the companies for which they worked fafled to re-sign the Jacksonville wage agreement with the United Mine Workers. A few hundred union miners, em ployed in small operutions, celebrating the eight-hour day today, were pectad to return to work tomorrow or Monday. These companies re- signed the union agreement. Operators working their mines non union, including the Pittsburgh Coal to last midnight it had operated union, employing more them 3,100 men in seven mines, with an annual production of. 3,400,000 tons. The mines were closed down today and company executives said their position would be made kaown during the afternoon. Union leaders were in the field can- ducting mass meetings. They that because of the fact that the sus- pension came simultaneously with the celebration of the eight-hour day if" would be impossible to gather accu rate figures on the number of men tdle until Monday next. Philllp Murray, international vice president of the union, issued a state- ment ving the union proposed to conduef coal mining in a peaceful and orderly manner." saM? he present suspension of | would be dispersed. He ordered all peace officers to keep a watch on all meetings to disband the crowds ‘when tI © boisterous. A s R 2 Soviet Wins Mexican Trade. MEXICO CITY, April 1 (®.—Ef- forts of Mme. Al ra Kollantay, Soviet Minister to Mexico, to estab- lish commercial intercourse between Russia and Mexico are bearing fruit. The first ship from Mexico for Rus- | sia left Tampico today with a $100, 000 cargo of lead, according to EI Uiniversal, which adds that the ves- sel will bring back raw materialy from Russia. BERENS [ UNCH| for temporary periods i with its ‘revaluation acti given a severe jolt today of Controller Gen held that such empl subject to the provisic Orderly Conduct Promised. He said the union men would con duct, themseives lawfully and orderly, adding this peaceful attitude was wholly different from the policy of the Pltisburgh Coal Co.. which he clalmed “has imported large numbers of guns and large quantities of am- munition into its mining camps and armed many of its irresponsible non- union employes.” Robert Braun, sheriff of Allegheny County, took note of the mining sftua ion in a proclamation. He said t all riotous assemblages and meeting Reason for shutdown—Expi- by ration of the Jacksonville wage 1 decision agroement at midnight Thurs- McCarl. which dav. Operators say they cannot would be pay the wages of this agree- of the cl ment and survive non-union sification act ecompetition. Miners say they Earl V. Fisher. executive secretary cannot aceept a cut. of the commission, pointed out t nes inoperative — About the decision undoubtedly would great 1y handicap the commission, as it will be difficult, if not impo: the services of outside perts within the salar: prescribed for such sification act. The: Fisher said, demand from $50 to $100 a day. Co., said the union suspension had no effect whatever on thelr operations. Pittsburgh Coal reported 4,080 men at work in 18 mines. This company severed realtions with the union two | vears ago. Normally, it operated some 45 mines, employing between 13,000 and 14,000 men. Await Union Mine Decisi Both the unioh and o awaited with interest the dec the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corpo. tained that a large number of non- unicn miners also left the pits. The non-union fields of West Virginia were expected to be little affected. A strike call was issued in the northern part of the State by Van A. Bittner, union representative, but only one union mine Is in operationsthere. No statement had been issued up to midnight by the miners’ president, John L. Lewis. He planned to speak t today at Taylorville, Ill, at the un-|ration on the wage This veiling of the Bilyeu monument, [company was consid of th erected in honor of a miner of that | union strongholds in 2 626 E St. NW. 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The act provides that | in the closing of about 150 shipping the expenses of such an investigation | mines. shall be charged to the operating ex-| “Six years' experience under an | B rporation. absolutely non-competitive arvange: | K ! f | wfl\ d planned to e ment has resulted in the closing of 3 il i i luation experts ta more than half the mines of the i | i ,W “l sist it in revaluing the property . he sald (A I it l the Washington and Georgetown g Miners Just As Emphatic. 1 i lght companie: tatements came from | J ;“;‘M H lon wax requested muore |, 5 it ot et been | CThe miners will take no wage re | ductions now or later.” sald Joe o ,,vzhmh,:,"';‘,:""f;'m"fi‘ e Distrie A, | Morris, president of the Iowa. Miners' ditor Daniel J. 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Between | e i 5,000,000 and. 80,000,000 foms of b g | Bituminous coal are above ground, ac- ng to Government estimates. \HIS tract of land, about ten ! . gperators. belleved that there miles from the Capitol Build- ‘would be no need to operate mines for o O ol P 8t Jeast 90 days, and in addition a rapidly growing section. offers an fipply of fuel: was: expécted | excellent opportunity for a profit- able suburban development. | from non-union fleids. Operators Oppose Renewal. The property has a frontage of | The Jacksonville agreement, which 1.456% feet on Washington | was negotiated four years ago, covers Boulevard and is intersected by the wages and working conditions of the lines of the City and Sub- lcoal miners in the orgamized bitumin- urban Electric Railway and the fields of Western Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The , Hlinois and Indiama, an area Riverdale Station of the Baltimore ithe central competitive field & Ohio Bailroad is sbout ove- 158 of its competitive position half mile from the property. The the non-union coal proxduction in frontage on Edmondson Road is n \le':vm‘ 'I’env;-;‘wh- Alabama, West adiacent 1o the lines of the Wash- rgini rginia. ington Interurban Electric Rail- pact specified a minimmum day ot T S s scule. {0 A plat of this property and par- i e Sxige chugan o W0 ticulars concerning the terms of tors said they could not renew sale may be obtained from ille pact and umn o “with the bituminous seodu || Mercantile Trust & Deposit Co. ) luminous p) from non-union fields, which thev iimed now averages about 70 r CALVERT & REDWOOD STS. BALTIMORE, MD. 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