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DISTRICT SECRETARY-TREASURER INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVE BOARD l\IEl\IBERS DISTRICT PRESID~ N~ ;::---rict 1 . - - JOHN KMETZ, 165 S. Franklin St., Wilkes-Barre, p.,._a_ _ _ __ _ ~rict 2___ JOHN GHIZZONI, 521 W. Horner St., Ebensburg, Pa _ _ _ _ _ __ trict 3 ..- - AUGUST J. LIPPI, 165 S.· Franklin St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa _ _ _ __ JOHN GHIZZONI, 521 W. Horner St., Ebensburg, Pa. _ _ _ _ __ EWING WATT, 106 W. Otterman St., Greensburg, Pa ____•_ _ __ WILLIAM HYNES, Gallatin Natl. Bank Bldg., Uniontown, Pa ..·--····- ·JOHN P. BUSARELLO, 938 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh 22, Pa. _ _ __ ADOLPH .PACIFICO, Room 702, 85 E. Gay St., Columbus, Ohio _ __ MARTIN F. BRENNAN, 204 United Mine Workers' Bldg., Hazleton, Pa. ELIAS DAYHUFF, Coal City, Ind,.__ I ===:::;trict 4 - - WILLIAJVI HYNES, Gallatin Natl. Bank Bldg., Uniontown, Pa.·-·-····-·-· ,.._strict 5_ _ JOSEPH YABLONSKI, Clarksville, Pa. - -- - - -- - - - - - """istrict 6..:_ ·_ PETER PIIlLLIPPI, Box 194: Cadiz, Ohio - __•_ __ __ _ _ _ __ Oistrict 7.- - DAVID J. STEVENS, Lansford, Pa. :::>istrict s__ _ WILBERT KILLION, Brazil, ma. __ 0 merec DAVID CUMMINGS, 165 S. F ra nklin St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. EDWARD SWEENEY, 521 W . Horner St., Ebensburg, Pa. EWING WATT, 106 W. Otterman St., Greensburg, Pa. MICHAEL HONUS, Gallatin N atl. Bank Bldg., Uniontown, Pa. JOHN SEDDON, 938 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh 22, Pa. RONALD 0. OWENS, Room 702, 85 E. Gay St., Columbus, Ohio DAVID J. STEVENS, 200 United Mine Workers' Bldg., H azleton, P a . ARTHUR LINTON, Route 5, Brazil, Ind. JOSEPH KERSHETSKY, 508 Dime Trust and Safe Deposit Co. Bldg. Shamokin, Pa. SAM NICHOLLS, Box 299, Renton, Wash. RALPH DAY, 301 N. Eighth S t ., Terre Haute, Ind. EDWARD GIBBONS, United Mine Workers' Bldg.,. Springfield, Ill. FRANK D. WILSON, United Mine Workers' Bldg., Albiaj Iowa HENRY ALLAI, Box 436, 317 Pro fessional Bldg., P ittsburg, Kans. FRED HEFFERLY, 210 Wilda Bldg. 1441 Welton Street, Denver 2, Colo JOSEPH KERSHETSKY, 508 Dime Trust and Safe Deposit Co. Bldg., Shamokin, Pa. _ _ _ __ ___ _ SAM NICHOLLS, Box 299, Renton, District lQ_ _ SAM NICHOLLS, Box 299, Renton, Wash. Wash. District 11-- LOUIS AUSTIN, 2504 N. 13th Street, ERNEST GOAD, 301 N. Eighth St., Terre Haute, Inrl,..__ _ __ _ _ Terre Haute, Ind. - - -- - - District 12_ _ JOSEPH SHANNON, 212 S. 18th St., HUGH WHITE, United Mine Workers' Bldg., Springfield, Ill. _ __ Herrin, Ill. District 13_ _ FRANK p. WILSON, 1305 S. Main FRANK D. 'WILSON, United Mine Workers' Bldg., Albia, Iowa. ..._ .__ St.. Albia, Iowa - - - - - - District 14__ HENRY ALLAI, Box 436,317 Profes- HENRY ALLA!. Box 436, 317 Professional Bldg., Pittsburg, Kans,---~----· sional Bldg., Pittsburg, Kans•- · --· _District 15__ FRANK HEFEERLY, 210 Wilda FRANK HEFFERLY, 210 Wilda Bldg., 1441 Welton Street, Denver Bldg., 1441 Welton Street, Denver 2, Colo. • 2, Colo. District 16__ JOHN L. MAYO, 35 Clark-Keating JOHN L . MAYO, 35 Clark-Keating JOHN L. MAYO, 35 OClark-Keating Bldg., Cumberland, Md. - - -~ Bldg., Cumberland, Md. Bldg., Cumberland, Md. - - - R. 0 . LEWIS, Box 1313, Char1eston, District 17- .. R. 0. LEWIS, Box 1313, Charleston, R. R. HU1\'1PHREYS, Box 1313 Charleston. W. Va. W. Va. - -- - - -- -- W. Va. - - - - - - - -- District 18__ ROBERT LIVETI, 102-103 P. ·B urns ROBERT LIVETT, 102-103 P. Burns EIDWARD BOYD, 102-103 P. Burns Bldg., Calgary, Alberta, Canada.____ Bldg., Calgary, Alberta, Canada....Bldg., Calgary, Alberta, Canada. District .19_ _ _ JAMES W. RIDINGS, Box 521, Mid- JAMES W. RIDINGS, Acting Presi- l\LBERT PASS, United Mine Work dent, Box 521, Middlesboro, Ky. _ _ ers' Bldg., 210 N. 20th St., Middles dlesboro, Ky. ·- - - - - - - boro, Ky. District 2Q__ WILLIAM MITCH, 517-522 Comer, WILLIAM MITCH, 517-522 Comer Bldg., Birmingham, Ala. _ __ _ Bldg., Birmingham, Ala. - - -District 21.__ DAVID FOWLER, 415 Metropolitan DAVID FOWLER, 415 Metropolitan Bldg., Muskogee, Okla. _ _ __ Bldg., Muskogee, Okla. - - -- District 22.__ MALIO PECORELLI, 428 Railroad ARTHUR BIGGS, North Side State J. Utah E. BRINLEY, P._ 0._ Box 272, Price, _ __ _ __ __ _ Ave., Helper, Utah_ _ _ _ __ Bank Bldg., Rooms 318-21, Rock Springs, Wyo. District 23-- ED J. MORGAN, Madisonville, Ky,__ _ ED J. MORGAN, Madisonville, Ky._ JESS LOVELACE, Box 552, Madi sonville, Ky. District 26__ JOHN H. DELANEY, 340 King Ed- THOMAS McLACHLAN, McDonnell MICHAEL HIGGINS, Box 45, Mc ward St., Glace Bay, N. S., Canada Donnell Bldg., Glace Bay; N. S . Bldg., Glace Bay, N. S:, Canada_. Canada District 27__ W. A. BOYLE, Box 1257, Billings, R. J. BOYLE, Box 1257, Billings, R. J. BOYLE, Box 1257, Billings, Mont. Mont. Mont. District 28__ CARSON HIBBITTS, Box 311, Nor- CARSON HIBBITTS, Box 311, Nor- · CARSON HIBBITTS, Box 311, Norton, Va. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ ton, Va. • ton, Va. - - -- -- - - - - J. CARL BUNCH, Secretary-Treas District 29 ___ _ GEORGE J. TITLER, Chilson, Ave. GEORGE J. TITLER, Chilson Ave. urer, Box 511, Beckley, W. Va. at Raleigh Rd., Box 511, Beckley, at Raleigh Rd., Box 511, Beckley, W. Va. - - - - - - , - .,,.: - - - - - W. Va. - - -- - - - -- - SAMUEL H. CADDY, 1408 First District 3Q __ SAMUEL CADDY, 1408 First· Natl. Natl. Bank Bldg., Lexington, Ky. Bank Bldg., Lexington, Ky. --- - District 3L_ CECIL J. URBANIA:K, Box 312, CECIL J. URBANIAK, Box 312, L. CLYDE RILEY, Box 312, Fairmont, W. Va. Fairmont, W. Va. _ _ _ __ _ Fairmont, W. Va. - - -- - 0. B. ALLEN, l,435 K St., N.W District SQ__ A. D. LEWIS, United Mine Workers' A. D. LEWIS, United Mine Workers' Washington 5, D. C. Bldg., Washington 5, D. ·C - - Bldg., Washington 5, D. C'va--- !!District 9_ _ JOHN J. MATES, 125 Tunnel St., Williamstown, Pa _ __ _ _ __ '.. INTERNATIONAL AUDITORS V. WOODS, Norton, Va. UJ]jton, Pa. INTER:NATIONAL ':!'ELLERS JOSEPH WOODS, Scranton, Pa. CLYDE W. RUNIONS, Lochgelly, W. Va. UNITED MINE WORKERS JOURNAL JUSTIN McCARTHY, Editor REX LAUCK, Ass'lstant Editor 1437 K Street, N. W. Washington 5, D. C. �ec,al A,·ea Represen-;-atives ' Thanks to the votes of coal area Congressmen-Dem:ratic and Republican-the House of Representatives on rngust 9 defeated legislation to force Federal construehon and operation of atomic energy plants to produce ---.:;nectr icity for commercial purposes. The action was a victory for adrnipistration forces. ~t str ipped from the 1958 Atomic Energy Commission a ut horization bill a Democratic program calling for the oexrpenditure of $55 million to build such nuclear reactors. "The administration pr ogr am calfs for private construction of atomic power plants with ~ome assistance from t he government . ~ ~ I This Is A Brainy Story ; Sen. Robert S . Kerr (D., Okla.) seems to be quite pleased with himself for saying that President Eisenhower doesn't have any brains. He · now says that nothing he has said before has provoked such ·widespread and enthusiastic public response. "The reactions by telephone, telegram and letters have definitely reinforced my convictions against aclministr;ition fiscal policies," Kerr stated. In an exchange on the Senate floor with Sen. Homer ,Capehart (R., Ind.), Kerr said: · "No man can help Eisenhower study the fiscal policies of this government, because one cannot do that without brains, -and he does not ha\"e them." Robert E . Ho we, director, Labor's Non-Partisan League, paid specia l honor to the coal area Congressmen who, he said, "stood u p agains t a barrage of criticism and pressure from their colleagues and the Democratic l eadership." came out belatedly in favor of the Senate bill on August 13, apHowe called the Democratic "crash" construction program a . parently realizing that the position of the UMWA and the railplan to do furth er injury to t he coal industry. He said the Demoroad brotherhoods in support of the Senate bill was correct. cr atic proposal was "purely political legisla~ion." Basically, the continuing struggle in the House is between "Democrats from coal a r eas provided the necessary votes to the Democratic and Republican leadership. Rayburn wants the defeat t his extravagant and unnecessary measure," Howe said. H'ouse to accept the bill in substantially the form it was passed "The coal miners owe a deot of gratitude to these Congressmen." by the Senate. House Republican Leader Joseph Martin of The Democratic R epresentatives who defied their party lead- Massachusetts thinks the legislation should be killed rather than ership on thi~ issue are: • accept the Senate's version. Cleveland Bailey, Robert Byrd, l\'lrs. Elizabeth Kee, Harley O. The civil rights bill has also gotten entangled in the battle tagger s, all of West Virginia; Carl Perkins and Willinn:t Natcher over foreign aid spending. Some House Democrats • are reof Kent ucky; Frank Clark, Daniel Flood, Thomas .Morgan, Fran.._ ported to have suggested they might vote for higher foreign aid cis Walter, all of Pennsylvania; Winfield K. Denton of Indiana; spending-favored by the President-if Republicans would support n:cnneth J. Gra'y of Illinois, and W. Pat Jennings of Virginia. the Senate's version of the civil rights bill. The idea was quickly R epublican Representa! ives fi:om coal. mining districts who rejected by· the Republican leader in the Senate, Sen. William led the fight against the "crash" progr~ are · John P. Saylor, F. Knowland. Ivor D. Fenton, James E. Van Zandt, all of Pennsylvania; WilThe President has been putting the "heat" on Congressmen liam G. Bray of Indiana, and Arch Moore of \Vest Virginia. to prevent furt1'er cuts in his nearly S4 billion foreign aid proThe legislation, as approyed by the House, provides $336,- gram. He has urged Congress not to cut the program below 851,000 for the AEC-minus the $5!5 million to build pow~r $3.4 billion. • plants. The -0nly feature of the Democratic program left intact was Senate Approves Foreign Aid a $3 million authorization for design work on a large-scale reThe Senate, on August 13, voted in favor of the $3.4 billion foractor ·t o produce plutonium for w.eapons and possibly for useful eign aid program. This is the authorization bill that had been heat. . worked out by -a conference committee of the House and Senate. What action the Senate will take is a question. But if it • It provides about $500 million less than the President requested. restores the Democrats' "crash" program the legislation could ~ouse approval of the $3.4 billion bill was expected. With House die in c·o nference or be vetoed by President Eisenhower. approval the bill ·will go to the White House for the Pi·esident's It is now predicted that Congress will adjourn by Septem- signature. ber 1. . There will then be another battle over the question of actually The principal issue that is holding up things now is the de- appropriating the money · as proposed in the authorization bill. bate in the House of Representatives on the Senate's civil rights There are predictions that further cuts in the program will be bill. ( Read editorial on Page J 0.) made in the appropriations bill. The bill approved by the Senate provides $1.6 billion in military The proposed legislation is still a political football. Republi- aid to friendly nations, $700 million in economic aid to bolster alth str cans in 'the House are arguing that ey want a " onger•: bill lieu armed s~ngth, $517 million in technical assistance and.othe~ -knowing full well that if the Senate's jury trial amendment special programs. It also makes a start on placing economic::=:::l is removed the legislation will die in a filibu ster by Se.n ate Dix- aid on a loqg-range loan basis by creating a loan fund with au iecrats. House Southern Democrats are arguing th at th ey "can- thority to make loans for the next two years. not" vote for any eivil rights legislation. The Coal Research Subcommittee of the House Interior an Efforts to break the deadlock failed on August 13. An at- Insular Affairs Committee was still haggling over the Inngua~ tempt was made to send the bill to a conference comm~ttee of ~ to be used in a report prepared by subcommittee staff personn~ the .two Houses but this requires unanimous consent which was Rep. Saylor, who initiated the program, told the Journal not obtained. An effort also was made to send the bill back to subcommittee ,vas arguing over proposed recommendations E:::j the Senate ,vith a so-called comp_romise amendment that would carrying out what he hopes will be a sweeping research and = - - - i have limited the jury trial provision to voting rights cases only. velopment program for both the bituminous coal and anthra This was blocked also. industries. The legis.lation ·was referred to the ;I'Iouse Rules Committee The Harris Natural Gas Bill, which is opposed by the following ··the effor~· to -get some direct action on it. The com- industry and the UMWA, appears to have been success[ mittce is sharply divided on the ma~ter. Another roadblock is shelved for this session of the 85th Congress. Supporters of the fact that the all-powerful Rules Committee is headed by Rep. legislation, which would free the gas industry from all Fe Howard Smith (Dixiecrat, Va.) who doesn't want any civil rights . control, apparently have decided they don't have the votes u·_ __j leg islation. However, if House Speaker ·sam Rayburn (D., Tex.) House to get the bill approved. By putting a vote over unt· can bring enough pressure to bea17 it is believed the Senate ver"'--~-slon_o second session in January, the bill's supporters \Vill afford th - - - ' h bill.has a.~c-~h=an '""=c'--""-'o=f,._.__a""s::.:s:.::;a"'gc;;e..;..- - ~ - - ~ --~ - ~- ~~ur _ a..,.l.,,s;~a--s 2~~b;',.:~1!:al, mon~ to _"work" ,?n oppon~nts. �u nuea 1v1 n i l! w orllers_Journal Augusfl 15, 195,,_,,_, r5J unfair competition from the gas industry. The industry has source which New York has." Harriman also noted t hat with been dumpin,g gas at cut-rate price:> into coal's m~rkets, whe:·e it is modern equipment power can be produced from coal in Pennsylbeing used as boiler fuel. The industry also 1~ conductmg an vania at a lower cost than power tra nsmi tted from t he Niaga;. 1 all-out drive to bring Canadian natural gas into coal m arkets. River. _ . -~ i On this latter point, Rep. George Huddleston, Jr., (D., Ala.) There will be no action on the tax front in this sess ion of said on August 14 •that the Canadian gas importation would bring Congress as far as working people are concerned. The H ouse widespread unemployment tq coal miners, impair the national did clear a ta,x reduction bill on the night club tax- cutting it security and subject gas consumers to prices set by foreign pro- from 20 percent to 10 percent. Supporters sa id th is would be a ducers and transporters. boon to jobless musicians. He noted that the U.i\iWA has "unselfishlv accept ed" me_chanMeanwhile, House Demorrats agreed .to consider incom e tax ization' in the coal industry and added : "To a sk tJ1cse hard- cuts at the next session of Congress. Next year is an elect ion working Americani:; t-0 sacrifice jobs unnecessarilr by bringing year for all House members and a t hird of the Senate so it is to this country a fuel that is not needed would be cruel and in- obviously politically expedient to talk about tax cuts as close sufferable.'' to election time as possible. That the administration's half-hearted effort t o get the interThe Senate has passed and sent to the House a bill that would national oil cartel to restrict foreign oil imports is faili~1g is in- sharply limit the fast corporation tax writeoff program for t he dicated by the flat refusal of some major companies to go a long next two and cihe-half years and then ki ll it entirely. In t he with the program. past seven. years of t his program, thousands of rapid amortiza tion But ·the administrator of this so-called pr ogram , Navy Ca pt. certificates have been issued covering $23 billion wor th of new M. V. Carson, Jr., is still viewing the sit uation thr ough roseplant and equipment . Under this pro-big-business program part of colored glasses. He thinks it will work. the cost of new fa cilities judged essential for defense would be Proposals for depressed areas legisla tion wil! not be a cted on wr itten off· against Federal taxes in five years instead of the in this session. But hearings on pending bills are being set for usual 20 years. the second session. \ Any restrictive legislation against welfare funds appears to The Senate, ·on August 9, passed and sent to t he House t he dis- have been shelved in this session of Congress. H oweYer, it is exputed bill to permit .the Tennessee Valley Authorit y to issue pected that the McClellan so-called rackets investigation com $750 million in revenue bonds to expand its coal-lmr ning power mittee , will include restrictive proposals on welfar e funds in any facilities. One important item in the bill requires TVA to pay the legislation it proposes in the next session of Congress. Treasury Department at least $10 million annually to r~duce the appropriations investment in the a gency. Re presenta tives II»on't W an~ 'l!))osd~sl811'<a 9 Meanwhile, another vacancy has occw·red on the TVA board The House of Representatives, which has been busy chopping of directors due to the death on. August 7 of Dr. Raymond Ross Paty. His death leaves only one active member on the three-man the administration's budget, balked recently at the idea of a cboard, retired Gen. Herbert D. Vogel. Arnold R. . Jones, who counting for the traveling e>qienses of its own m embers. The proposal to require Representatives t o account for t heir has been assistant director of the budget, has been nominated by the President to fill the vacancy left by retirement of Dr. Harry spending of foreign currencies while a broad was embodied in a n amendment to the foreign aid bill. It was defeated by a s tanding A. Curtis. But the -Senate has yet to confirm.- the nomination. • The Senate, on August 12, defeated a silly proposal by Sen. vote of 148 to 86. Effect of the amendment would have qeen t o requir e comJoseph S. Clark, Jr., (D., Pa.) to bring hydroelectric power from mittees using counterpart funds to budget such m oney t he same the Niagara River power project into Pennsylvania and 9hio. For some mysterious reason Clark contended that sending as other money when seeking their annual appropriations from Niagara po,ver into Pennsylvania would hf!lp the coal industry. the House contingent fund. No recor ds now are kept, or at least not available for publJc scr utiny, on spending of foreign i unds He argued that by taking the hydroelectric power away from are by traveling legislators. New York state--where it is sorely needed-New York would It might also be ·noted that the House Labor Committee is have to use more Pennsylvania .coal to make up the difference. Clark said this was "a matter of simple arithmetic." It apparently - seriously considering legislation to force de.taile_d disclosure of d id not occur to him that the reverse alsu is a matter of simple welfare fund expenditures. arithmetic. If more hydroelectric power is brought into Pennsylvania and Ohio it is quite obvious that those states will use U. 5. Corporations Have $1 06 Billion ~ less coal to produce electricity. ' The ~ecurities and Exchange Commission r eports that net Gov. Averell Harriman of New York earlier had rejected an working capital of Amer ican corporations on March 31 was .$106 appeal by Clark for support for the Clark amendment. Harriman, billion, a rise of $1.6 billion during the first quarter of 1957. Corwith considerable logic, told Clark in a telegram that Penn- porations reduced their holdings of cash and government securisylvania "is fortunate in having a rich natural resource in the ties by $3.4 billion during the first three months of the year to a form of coal while water is the only power-'produ9ng natural re- total of $49.9 billion. \,,:;~ I COAL COl\li'~TTEE- This is the coal research committee of the House of Representatives which is expected to report to the House in ~he nea.r future on results of cross-country hearings on the coal research bill held eu.rlier this year. Seated (left to right) are John P. Saylor (R., Pa.), author of the resolution authorizing the study; Ed Edmondson (D., Okla.), chairman; and Wayne N. Aspinall <»-, Colo.). Standing nre J. Edgar Ohenoweth (R,, Colo,), William A. Dawson (R., Utah), Stuart L. Udall (D., Arlz.), Olm Engle (D., Oallf.), and Lee Metcnlf (D., Mont.). �A Note Of Thanks To The Journal Albert T . Allen of Los Angeles · writes to ~xpress his anks to t he Journal for the articles printed concerning President John .L. L ewis' statements _to the Senate and House Labor Committees on the question of proposed wel· fare fu nd l egisla tion. Alien, who is 75, is a member of L ocal Union 2971, District 6. "Readin g t he s tatements," Allen writes, "we thought of what a difficult pos it ion Mr. Lewis faced. We thought of what a great r esponsibility he had to protect lc,J.bor's welfa re fu nds- not just for his own UMWA but for all labor. in general." Alien noted that many of the Senators and Repr esentatives are tra ined lawyers "with their m inc(s made up to create more laws to meddle with welfare funds." He said Lewi was con fronted with "many veiled questions and it is amazing how h e was so successfully able to answer them to t he ex ten t that m a ny of the Congressmen agreed there was no need fo r more laws. " It is some ambassador we have in President Lewis and our rank a nd fil e should appreciate what a ment;u giant we ha ve in our great leader." UMWA To Held Scores Of Rallies To Ce'lebrate Labor Day, 1957 UMWA Labor Day celebrations will be bigger and better than ever this September 2, according to advance information recei\'ed by the Journal from District and Local Union officials. Virtually.all Districts have scheduled festivities of one sort or anot her, and many Local Unions will stage smaller ral1ies. of their own. Typical are the big ones being staged in Districts 28 and 30. District 28 President Carson Hibbitts says that a big rally will be staged at Norton, Va., with Special International Representative Paul K. Reed the principal •speaker. A parade will precede a large variety show, a beauty contest with the contestants sponsored by District 28 Local Unions, and presentation of prizes to Local Unions with the best att endance. Chairman B. B. Bloomer, Co-chairman Matt Combs and Secretary Noble Hobbs of the District 30.Labor _Day Celebration Committee forwarded a "dodger" to the Journal announcing that the District 30 rally will feature · Sam Caddy, Jr., Secretary- Treasurer of District 30, as principal _speaker. There will be gate prizes of a 1957 Oldsmobile, a Browning automatic shotgun and fishing rod and reel, plus hillbilly and gospel singers, aerialists performing beneath a helicopter, clowns and a variety show. Other Districts and Local Unions also ar e going all-out to make L abor Day, 1957, a memorable day. Ali rallies feature speeches. Many will have parades and picnics. All w ill be held a~~ []={]a~i®~ !%@a~ ~©J~te$ i1o1: in the spirit that this is labor's day to relax, get together and cement the ' ideals that make America's labor movement the ~@@~ !fil@@~◊ 0$ ~ ~@Inl'u' A Y@ira greatest on ear th. • Typical, perhaps, is District 31 _where Northern West Virginia Ra ilroad freigh t ra tes were boosted again last week by the Interstate Commerce Commission and, as usual, the already too- miners are joining with other organizations of labor to stage a rally in Morgantown: A huge parade will be a feature--and so w ill high r at es on bituminous coal were r a ised even higher. i The genera l increases on freight rat es were 7 percent to the UMWA pensioners, who will distribute a new leaflet in their Eastern and W est ern r a ilroads and 4 percent to Southern carriers campaign against the Monongahela Power Co.'s non-union coala bove "temporary" hik es already granted by the I c;c. The rail- buying policy. UMJV A Safety Director Charles Ferguson and District President Cecil J. Urbaniak will be the featured speakroads had sough t even higher tariffs. "Hold-down" provisions were . applied to several commodities, ers at a celebration of Local Union 40/7 in Grant Town, among t hem soft coal, which was "held-down" to a maximum in- W. ·Va., where more than 1,000 miners are expected to be present. crease of 15 cents a ton over-all . The new increases amount to Other Lo~al Unions in District 31 will also stage their own rallies. Many other Districts also plan large rallies. Among them are: 5 cen ts on rail, 5 cents to tidewater and 3 cents and 2 cents on rail-water -ra il movements. An over-all increase of 7 cents a ton • District 11, Petersburg, Ind., where iJfichael F. Widman, Jr., will be put into effect on shipments of lignite. • assistant to l!MWA President John L. Lewis, will be the principal The r a ilroads have long been fighting a losing battle against speaker; t raffic declines by r a ising r ates. This pattern has been followed • • District 12, Marion, ru., where Louis Austin, International by all carriers since World War II until the present rate case Executive Board Member for District 11, will be the principal when the Southern Railway announced that it• would not partici- speaker; pate in the request for freight rate boosts but would instead • District 17, two rallies. One at Whitesville, \V. Va., will seek ways to keep its old customers and capture n·ew .ones at the feature Joseph Shannon, International Executit-e Board !,/ember then existing rate levels. When the ICC's decision was made pub- for District 12, as principal speaker. The other, a t Smithers, W. lic, the Southern stuck to its guns. It has raised rates on a few , Va., will feature a speech by Wilbert /(illion, International Execucommodit ies, but has published a long list of it ems on which rates - tive Board 1"/ember for District 8; will not be increased. The Southern's competitors in ·the South 1 • District 19, Monterey, Tenn., features as principal speaker have been forced to follow suit. Unfortunately, the Southern did Henry Allai, International Executive Board Member and President decide to follow along on the 5-cent-a-ton coal boost. of District 14; Other lines should have thought twice before submitting their • District 21, Henryetta, Okla., principal speaker, William most recent r equest for a r aise. In arguing against the boost on JJlitch, International Board lflember and Preside11t of District 20; coal, the National Coal Association told the ICC: • District 22, Price, Utah, principal speaker, John Kmetz, "(a) Since the war, freight rates on bituminous coal have International Board ill ember for District.I; been increased more than have rates on all other freight and • District 29, Pineville, W. Va., where District S. International on all freight groups except one; (b) these rate increases. have Board JJlember Joseph Yablonski and District 29 President George played a significant role in ~oal's declining share of the energy .J. Titler will speak. market and have been instr umental in the loss of considerable railroad coal traffic to competing transportation age:~cies and methods; and · ( c) coal traffic is profitable and handling costs do not justify higher rates." Raih·oads now ·carry less than half of the nation's inter-city freight tonnage. ·In 1930 they hauled more than 75 percent. CONFffil\lED - Charles R. More and more shippers are seeking other modes of transporFerguson's nontlna tion for a tation because of increased rail rates. ne,v three-year term as a Enlightened leaders of the coal industry are capturing new member of the Federal Coal markets and holding old ones by shifting from railroads to coml\line Safety Boa rd •of R e,·iew peting forms of transportation. For instance, the West Kentucky hns been confirmed by the SenCoal .Co. has opened up a market in Florida for st~am coal by ato. The Ul\lWA snfety direc'pushing barges down the Mississippi River and hauling them by tor is now scn·ing h is third tug across the Gulf of Mexico to Tampa where the _Tampa Electenn on the board, which was t ric co. has converted from oil to coal on the bas1~ of cheaply set up in 1952 under the F edproduced, cheaply shipped coal. Pitt~bur_g_l.t <;ons?l1dati?n Coal eral Coal l\llnc SnfC'ty Act. Co. is moving coal through_ a 100-mile p1pelme m Oh10. And so it goes, and so it will continue to go ~ long as the nation's railroads co~ntinue to att~mpt to solve their fiscal problems by raising freight rates. ~ ~ <9J as �Don't Look Now, But The Cost Of Living Is Up Once Again;. Other Economic otes This is probably as neWS\vorthy as reporting that a dog has bitten a man but the cost of living has gone up agajn. The Federal government's index_bounced up another .5 of 1 percent in June to its tenth record high in as many months. The increase, reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, now stands at 1,20.2 percent of the 1947-49 average, which is ·used as the base period. Food prices jumped 1.4 percent from May to June. All other prices measured by the BLS also rose. This June the index stood 3.4 ·percent higher than in June, 1956, and 4.8 percent higher than in March, 1956-the t akeoff point for an almost continuous increase ever since. BLS predicted that the July index will show another increase because of boosts in the prices of fresh fruits and vegetables. In the Senate, Sen. Albert Gore (D., Tenn.) charged t hat a dministration money policies were responsible for the continued rise. He said the principal cause is administration act ion in "pushing interest rates higher and higher, and faster and faster." Other notes ·of interest on the U.S. economy: Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks predicted that 1957 will wind up as "the best year ever in the history of our economy" although "spotty" conditions persist in several industries. He said th& total output of goods and services ("gross national product") reached the record annual rate of $431 billion in the first half of the year, up 6 percent from first-half 1956. ' Weeks said gove~ent spending . is a factor in increasing living costs and must be controlled. He also said prices and wag~s are chasing each other, and that is not healthy. 67 .2 MIiiion Have Jobs On the employment front summer jobs for young persons and on farms boosted total civilian employment to 67.2 million in July. This is an increase of 700,000 workers over the June total . . Some moderate job reductions were reported among adult workers in the educational services and manufacturing, which the government says is normal for July. Unemployment for the month was three million, a drop of 300,000 in the total jobless figure. • Employment of non-farm workers, including domestics, the self-employed and unpaid family workers, was up one-half million for a total of 59.4 million. Plant vacation shutdowns accounted for a drop of 300,000 in non-farm employes to a total of 52.6 million. Factory jobs dropped 180,000 to 16.7 million, more than the usual seasonal slump. One of the largest cuts was in the automobile industry. The factory work week--39.9 hours in July-was one-tenth of an hour below the' June level and two-tenths below a year ·ago. Average weekly earnings of factory production workers increased ~ cents to a total of $82.99. State insured joblessness, which does not include student job seekers, reached nearly· 1.4 million, a jump of 90,000 during the month. • The Commerce Department, meanwhile, reported an increase in June cash dividends paid out to stockholders of corporations. The increase totaled $1,679,000,000-up 3.5 percent from June, 1956. Senator Estes Kefauver (D., Tenn.) is heading a subcommittee looking into the problem of "administered price" boosts by huge monopolistic corporations. The corporations are attempting to counter the probe by blaming organized labor for price boosts. An example of what the Senator feels is an administered price boost is the recent increase of $6 a ton in steel prices, despite lowered market demands for steel that should, normally, induce lower prices. • The staff of the subcommittee reported that in 1954, 200 top manufacturing corporations accounted for 37 percent of the total dollar value added by manufacturing. This represented a seven point jwnp over 1947 figures. Several hearings on monopoly price increases are scheduled for August with business, farm and labor organizations expected to present their views. A new study by labor economists shows that wages have Social Security Disability 'Freeze' Deadline Extended To July 1, 1958 Disabled workers 50 or more years old who want to receive Social_ S~curity benefits now have until J uly 1, 1958, t? file apphcabon for the disability "freeze" to protect their nghts t<;> old-age,_ survivors, or disability insurance, according t o the Social Secw·1ty Administration. Previously t he law set a deadline of June 30 this year. The freeze is for the purpose of having the worker's r ecord f~ozen t? ~rot:ct his future right to disability paymen ts and :ilso his fanuly s rights to old-age and survivors insurance benefits. !he "~reez~~ p_r:vents those years during which a severe and mdefimte d1sab1hty keeps a person out of work from counting against him on eligibility for benefits or on the amount of his 0 benefits. Until the recent change in the law, a period of d 'sabili ty could not be determined to have begun earlier tha n 12 months before application for the "freeze" unless the applica tion has been made ~efore June 30, 1_957. For this reason, a disabled person who failed to make claun before -the end of Jun e and who had become disabled before January 1, 1955, would have lost his right to have his Social Security record frozen because he could not possibly meet the work requirements·. And without the "freeze" he might have lost future rights because at the time he died or became 65 he might not have had the required work credit. The law as now amended gives those who were disabled pr ior to January 1, 1955, until June 30 1958 to file applica tion for the disability "freeze." . ' .' Another amendment .provides that disabled veterans' S ocial Secu_i:ity benefits will not be reduced because of compensation received from the Veterans Administration for service-connected disability. • • Rep. Carl D. Perkins (D., Ky.) and Rep. Elizabeth Kee (D., W. ·Va.) are trying tQ get Congress to make the same provision for all disabled workers. - "They Are America" Exhibit Ope!iis M<;>re than ~O outstanding and -prize-winning photographs of American workingmen and women are currently on display in the "They Are America" exhibit of the U. S. Labor Department. Under ~e_cr1:tary of Labor James T. O'Connell officially opened the exh1b1t m the Labor Department building for public viewing. Among embassy -labor • attaches at the opening was Patrick Co11roy of Canada, a former vice president of U ilfWA District I 8. Coincidental with the exhibit, the department issued a report under the same title and written in a popular style which discusses . major problems facing American workers in the next decade and describes the department's role in helping to solve those problems. _ "They Are America" discusses: The ski~ P:<>blem in America; with - improving technology and expanding industry comes an ever-increasing need for skilled workers; The plight of the older worker-over 45 years of age--and what the Department of Labor is doing t.o help; Discrimination in employment and efforts to eliminate it· Training needs of youth, tomorrow's skilled craftsmen; ' The social programs which are built into our society to provide protection and security for those in need; . . The safety and health standards developed and fo§.tered by the Labor Department; , Law enforcement to protect the worker, the fair employer, and the p~blic; Foreign exchange programs of the Labor Department, and participation in the International Labor Organization; And the economic state of the nation. The book can be purchased from the Superintendent of DocUl'l'.lents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C. It. is (?O cents a copy, • lagged behind prices for the last ten years and are still trying to catch up. The study uses Federal government figures to prove its case against the corporate propaganda that labor ls responsible for price increases. A BLS report shows that labor costs in the 194756 period were lower than price rises for every year prior to 1956. - �August 15, 1057 dgew ter, Go . ~e ti111e8$ f a United iv.line Workers ·Journal D ones - • . ID hies Top coal-division honors in the 1956 National Safety Competition -have been awarded to Edgewater Mine, Tennessee Coal & Iron Division of U. S. Steel Corp., Wylam, Ala., and Goodspring Mine, Penag Coal Co., Goodspring, Pa., the U. S. Bureau of Mines announced. / Edgewater mine, near Birmingham, won the "Sentinels of Safety" trophy for bituminous mines by operating 766,644 manhours last year without a disabling injury. This is the first time in 12 years of participation that the mine has taken top honors. It was the scene of a major disaster' in 1948 when a gas explosion, which occurred during the sinking of a new. opening, cla imed the lives of 11 mine workers. Goodsprjng mine, located in Schuy~kill County, Pa., won the ant hraci te-division trophy for operating 106,162 man-hours with 14 d:c;abling injuries, ca using a total of 98 days of lost time. An injury-severity r a te of 0.923 day lost per thousand m~m-hours of e.Kposure to haza rd- the lowest of its group--earned the colliery i ts fi rst trophy awar d in the seven years it has taken part in the compe ti t ion . T)1e mine received honorable mention for second place in 1951, and for third place in 1950 and 1955. Trophies · are awarded on the basis of the lowest injury severity rate in each group. Where a number of mines operate without a disabling injury for an entire year, the top award goes to t he disability-free operation with the greatest number of manhour s of exposure. • Bituminous Mines Set Record Low Injury Rate Removal Of Too Much Coal Fi-om Pillar's Caused ,Ohio Cave-In Which 5 Survived The cave-in that held five men prisoner for 14 hours, June 26. in the Powhatan Mining Co.'s Betsy No. 3 Mine, St. Clairsville, Ohio, was "caused by removing too much coal in first mining which resulted fn a sudden squeeze" (bending or facturing of overburden), according to the U. S. Bureau of Mines. The mine 'is unger the jurisdiction of Local Union 7Jt/9, District 6. Tn its final- report -on the cave-in, the Bureau said the "amount of coal taken from the pillars as the places were advanced was in excess of the company's projected plan of mining.'' It was brought out in the investigation that the plan of mining had not been followed, and "total extractiou was in excess of that shown on the (mine) map." • The only area of the mine. accessib_le for investigation was betwj:!en the face of No. 8 working place and a point . 45 feet distant where the fall broke off. It was here that the five men took refuge, some 300 feet from the portal cut into the hig~wall of a former· strip mine. This area was rcof-bolted and timbered in accordance with the accepted plan, the Federa l repor:t said, adding that there was no evidence that the cave-in was t~e result of failure of the roof-support plan. Approximately 225 feet of the No. 8 place was caved, and two adjoining entries we e also clogged to within a few feet of the portals. An examination of the surface over the No. 8 place disclosed surface cracks r:unning parallel with it. The cracks indicated that- a squeeze and general collapse resulted because th_e pillars le'ft intact were not adequate to support the overburden. To prevent a similar accident in the future, the Bureau report said. the "face of th~ highwall and the surface area over the acti,·e panel should be examined daily, when coal is produced, fpr signs of dangerous subsidence and other dangerous conditions." The - report also called for mining in strict compliance with engineer ing projections. The investigating team entered the mine by way of the same 42-inch auger hole throµgh which the trapped mine workers had crawled to safety. The five men-unhurt-\\·ere freed on the third attempt by rescue workers to drill into the area where they were trapped. The happy outcome of the near disaster won a special tribute from Fetleral investigators for "employes and officials who g:n-e of. themselves· unstintedly in ·making the rescue of their fellow workers possible. The courage, know-how and the resourcefulness of these men, without exception, . deserves the highest praise.'' Bituminous parficipants achieved a record-low injury frequency r ate of 14.353 per million man-hours of exposure in underground mmmg. This is less thari one-third the national average last year for all bituminous operations, including deep mines and strippings. The bituminous mines ranking in the first five places all operated without €l lost-timE! accident in 1956. Coal runners-up awarded a "Certificate of Accomplishment in Safety" for earning second, third, fourth and fifth plg.ces are as follows: Bituminous-Republic :Mine, Republic Steel Corp., Elkhorn City, Ky., for working 419,324. man-hours without a lost-time injury. D. 0 . CJ.ark 7 Seam, Union Pacific Coal Co., Superior, Wyo., for operating 212,986 man-hours without a disabling injury. Labuco Mine, Alabama ByrProducts Corp., Birmingham, Ala., for working 152,202 man-hours without a lost-time injury. Labuco ' I was the bituminous winner in both 1954 and 1955 and thus re-:linquishes the trophy it held for two straight years. It has com- One Miner Saved, Another Dies Under Fall Two miners were trapped by a roof fall July 23 in the Roben:1 peted in 19 of the annual competitions. Hernshaw Mine, Electro Metallurgical Co., a division of Union No. 3 mine of U. S. Steel Corp., near Greensboro, Pa.. ,vith Carbide & Carbon Corp., for working 80,068 man-hours in 1956 heroic efforts saving one of the men five hours after the c,we-in. The rescued miner, Andrew Wydo, 36, of l\IcClellandtown. without a lost-time injury. • ' Anthracite-Pittston Mine, P. & J. Coal Co., Pittston, Pa., suffered no apparent injuries but was admitted to Uniontown for operating 59,360 man-hours with four lost-time injuries causing Hospital for obs.ervation. Jerry Sor,a, about 60, of Bitner, Fayette County, was dead 86 days ·of -disability. .. . . Loree No. 3 Mine, Hudson Coal Co., Plymouth, Pa., for oper- when rescuers reached him, about ten hours after the fall. He ating 582,517 man-hours with 58 lost-time injuries causing 1,210 was a member of Local Union 6321. days of disability. Eddy Creek Shaft Mine, Hudson Coal Co., Olyphant, Pa., for working 457,324 man-hours with 35 lost-time inj.uries causing Nat'I Safety ·Contest Rules, Entr.y Blanks 1,009 days ·of disability. Can Be Obtained At Bureau's Field Offices Loree-Boston Mine, Hudson Coal Co., Plymouth,- Pa., for working 397,342 man-hours with 44 lost-time injuries causing 1,Entry blanks and rules governing the 1957 National 114 days of disability. First-Aid and Mine Rescue Contest are available upon reOf the 525 mineral-producing operations in 43 states c~mquest at Health and Safety Offices of the U. S. Bureau or peting in the 1956 competition, 200 went through the year withMines in the nation's coal-producing areas. They may alc;o out a disabling injury. Trophies were also awarded to the outbe obtained through Harry F. Wea,·er, contest secretary, standing metal }Jline nonmetallic mine, open-pit mine and quarry. 4522 Interior Building, Washington 25, D. C. ' I The meet will be held October 2 to 4 in Louis\'ille, Ky., n t The winner in each division retains a bronze trophy and green the Kentucky Fair and &-position Center. and white "Sentinels of Safety" flag for one year. Rule1: for both the mine rescue contest and tht> lirs t-:-iid The competition, now in its 33d year-, is sponsored by ~e U.S. events have been approved and are now being d istributl'.'u Bureau of Mines. Trophies are donated by the Explosives Enamong the field offices. The "package" includes an in~ rgineer magazine. In addition to group awards, each employe pretation sheet for mine-rescue judges nnd team tra int>rs and official at the winning operations receives a ''Certificate of and a series of practice first-aid problems. Accomplishment in Safety" from the Bureau. First-aid teams competing for the national honors will work at least ten problems. Rescue teams, equipped wit h Natiqnal Safety Council studies show that more accidental self-contained oxygen-breathing apparatus durin ~ the 111.:i~ injuries result from falls than ,from any other cause except traffic euvers, will work one or more problems in a nm ck m ine s 0 ~ accidents. You can avoid most falls by keeping things neat and up in the Exposition Center's huge colosscun . 'fi ·I b not rushin about unnecessarily, by wiping up spilled �Page 8 United M i1£e Workers Journal 'Dr. August _15, 195J A.M 0 EDITOR'S NOTE: The following article appeared recently tireme.nt plan. H.I .P. and Kaiser both have approximately ·500,in the weekly magazine The Nation. It was written by Dan 000 people enrolled, and both carry on their dark mission within Wakefield. It concerns relations between the American the confines of a single state. The UMW plan has a million beneficiaries spread through 45 states, Alaska and the Dis trict of Medical Association, state and county medical organizations Columbia. It employs 6,800 physicians at a total · cos t of $17 and the UMWA Welfare and Retirement Fund. It is of interest . miJlion a year, and has built $30 million worth of hospitals. , to all members of the UMWA and their families. "Dr. Jekyll and the A.M.A." C '] V g 3 It is entitled, The dark clouds of progress hung heavily over the 106th convention of the American Medical Association as its delegates i;huttled from the Waldorf-Astoria to the New York Coliseum, confronting the dangers of radiation on the one hand and socialization on the other. The only real answer for life in our time seemed to be the one provided by the Wallace Labo'ratories, makers of l\'Iiltown, who dispensed the' lotus in generous samples from a small but always busy booth at the convention's technical exposition. The conclave, held early this month, was the largest in A.M.A.'s ·history, ·drawing 55,847 doctors and guests, employing hundreds of workers and requiring, for the operation of the Coliseum alone, five miles of electrical cable, 10,000 square yards ·of carpeting, 56,000 square yards of draperies, 300,000 I.B.M. cards- which with other un-itemized equipment, were brought by 40 baggage cars and hundreds of trucks to their destination and finally resulted at the end of the convention week in the bacchanalian total of 40 truckloads of debris, carted away at $30 a load. The magnitude of it is staggering even to the contemporary soul, and was no doubt unforeseeable by the organization's founder, one Nathan Smith Davis, a long-dead freedom fighter, who, according to the official history of the A.M.A., was "born in a log cabin on the farm near Greene, Chenango County, New York, which bad been homesteaded and partially cleared of its original forest by his father, Dow Davis, an orphan, who had, when in hisearly 'teens', run away from the cobbler to whom he had been indentured." ' ... Fighting Off Indenture A_g ain' The rub, of course, comes in the realization that for all the trappings here are Dow Davis' descendants a century later and fighting off indenture again. Their British brothers are already in chains, and here in, the new world the manacles are being n snapped not only by the Federal government, but by union and "private" health plans-such as John L. Lewis' United llfi11e Work\: ers Welfare and Retirement plan-which have swept upon the n scene to introduce "third party" elements between patient and doctor. This threatens us all, the medicos feel, with the loss of a our basic American freedoms, and it was this black issue which occupied the center of the stage for the A.M.A .. House of Delegates as it wrestled with the future. C The rumors of impending doom had begun as far back as 1933, when the A.M.A. deiegates approved a report condemning the thens existing voluntary health-insurance plans with the judgment that n "it is clear that all such schemes are contrary to sound public policy and that the shortest road to the commercialization of the ii practice of medicine is through the supposedly rosy path of insur'I ance." But the tides were moving, and by the late '40's the govern1: ment was talking of national compulsory health insurance (branded hy the A.l\i.A. as "political medicine") and the A.M.A., with the t, help of the Whitaker & Baxter advertising agency, was raising h its voice with the slogan: "Voluntary Health Insurance-the iI American Way." "The American Way," however, was delimited to bbroad and pure insurance plans such as Blue Cross and Blue Shield, and definitely did not include the sudden new evils of pribc • Yate-group plans with their own panels of doctors, such as New lo York's Health Insurance Plan (H.I.P.) and California's Kaiser Jo r'oundation plan. In 1954, the New York State Medical Society roared into the A.M.A. House of Delegates with a set of proposed amendments to the medical code which would have made m it "unethical" for a doctor to work with H.I.P., which by then had cl, 100,000 members. The house wouldn't go that far, though, and the . pc hattle was pitched independently by county medical societies, with os tracism of group-practice doctors such as took place on a long fc front in California, where the Los Angeles County Medical Sotc ciety Jed the finally futile charge against the Kaiser doctors. • But this ear he A.M.A. had to come to grips with the biggest s f, Against this monster the delegates brought five different resolutions, a supplementary report by the board of t rustees on "Suggested Guides to Relationships Between Sta te and County Medical Societies and the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund," and considerable passionate oratory. All the proposed resolutions and suggestions were unloa ded on the Co~ittee on Miscellaneous Business, and on t he second day of the convention all who were interested joined the committee in session for hearings in the West Foyer of the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf. There, where the imitation dogwood bravely climbs thr~ugh the inevitable smoke of deliberation , a standing-room audience heard the bleak details of the conspiracy and uttered hopeless war-cries-later judged impractical by legal advisors. The session got under way with less urgent tho ugh similarly threatening issues, such as continuing the annual A.M.A.-sponso~ed high s~hool essay contest on the topics, ,"The Advantages of Private Medical Care" or "The Advantages of the American Free Enterprise System." It seems that several members h ad sensed a certain futility in "essay contests," but a doctor from t he Colorado del_egation was up to tell the tale of a Denver high school class assignment on "The Advantages of Socialized Medicin e" which was opposed by a doctor's daughter who had designs on t he A.M.A. essay prize, but who could not very well fit t he tea cher's assigned topic into the competition. All saw the moral, and the resolution to maintain the contest was approved. Discussion of the main resolution against the UMW Fund and like menaces got off to a flery start with the wor ds of one of the resolution's co-authors, Dr. Everett H . Munro of the Colorado State Medical Society. Dr. Munro's resolution proposed that "voluntary participation in systems of medical care which deny patients their rights of free choice of physicians as so defined, other than as may be required by the mandates of law constitutes a violation of the Principles of Medical Ethics." u The president of the Colorado State Medical Society backed his colleague's view with the opinion that the A.M.A. had only three courses open to it, and the one embodied in this resolution was the best. A second course was to take no action at all, which would lead to the British sort of socialized medicine. The last course, which might have to be followed if the resolution failed, was the formation of a "medical guild" which would "bargain collectively with labor and management"-although this would mean the loss of dignity of the medical profession. 'Poor' Doctors Fear Loss Of Income Conditions were as drastic all across the land. A doctor from Michigan warned that Walter Reuther was about to inflict a medical-welfare plan comparable to the Mine Workers' on the toilers of Detroit. An embattled freedom fighter from Illinois reported that some doctors in his state were '1osing $5,000-$15,000 a year in private practice because of the Miners' plan." Only in Mississippi was the flame of liberty still unthreatened.' "We don't have this· problem, but we can't tell when we might," their delegate reported, and added bis sympathetic support to his colleagues' cause. Dr. Harry Mantz, an Illinois delegate back from the front, warned the troops that "the men from Colorado [sponsors of the resolution] are very courageous because they are. going to be sued. In Illinois, we can't throw out a doctor from the , state medical society without danger of a Federal suit:>'' But dangers aside, there were altogether 25 men to speak up in favor of the drastic measures embodied in the resolutions, and the only dissent had to come from the Devil's Disciple himself, Dr. Warren Draper, who directs the UMW Welfare and Retirement Fund He, was offered the microphone and quietly read to the delegates: "The task of providing medical care for the miners and their families was assumed by the Fund in 1948 because the unnecessary suffering, disability and preventable deaths due to inadequate medical care, or none at all, were shocking to all who knew the facts. The r~port .of_ a, _medical survey _of the 1 i �United lVline workers J oUt'ft(lt • in 1946, contains the statement that in some of the minin_g . communities, provisions for hea1th are 'so poor that their tolerance is a disgrace to a nation to which the world looks ~ r patte rn a nd guidance' . . . Any thoughtful person in full possession of the fac ts would know that ':vith the i~ve~tment t h e Fund has made in medical care for its benefic1ar1es the program ca nnot s top; it must go on. Petty perse~utions, such as those by certa in county m edical societies which endeavor t o prevent the Fund from providing medical care for ~ts beneficia ries by denying membership in the county medical socie ty to phys ici ans who do so, will be settled by legal means if other m easures fail. - Other petty forms of persecution have already failed." Out of t he resulting silence, Cha irman Dr. Peter DiNatalie called up one of A.M.A.'s lawyers, who could only tell his clients that the whole t hing was "not a n easy m atter to discuss." In t he end, it was discussed a t 7 :15 on the morning of the last day by A.M.A. s ta ff legal advisors, who told the mHitants of the Colorado delegation tha t t he resolu tions might be•fine in principle, but J9hn L . L ewis would ha ve them in t he courts, , there was no getting around it. They would have to be satisfied with the committee's report- a t las t a dopted- wh ich expla ined · that although the resolutions were approved "in pr inciple.,'' the organiza tion could officially do no more t han "re-emphasize the America n Medical Associa tion's a pproval of t he principle of free choice of physician and h ospital," and adopt th e Board of Trustees' "suggested guides" to rela tio nships with t he UMW. UMW l?atients Have Freedom Of Choice rug Soft Coal Miners Earn $3.03 An tfour Production workers in the bituminous coal industry averaged $112.11 for a 37-hour week-c-<>r $3.03 an hourduring April, according to statistics prepared by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor. Th is •is the highest hourly earnings figure in . the history of the industry. Weekly earnings reached· their highest point in history last December when soft coal miners a veraged $115.33 a week for a 38.7 hour week--or $2.98 an hour. There were an estimated · 218,500 production ·employes working in the soft coal industry in April. Total employm ent in the industry was estimated at 238,700. In the anthracite industry employment of production workers was 26,500, with. total employment 28,400. Average weekly earnings in the anthracite industry in April, were $92.07 for a 31-hour week--or $2.97 an hour. orfon Urges Soft Coal For Wisco nsin Use of soft coal to meet urgent fuel needs in ¥lisconsin has been advocated by Sen. Thruston B. Morton (R., Ky.). Morton made the suggestion in response to a speech by Sen. Alexander Wiley· (R., Wis.). Wiley urged that the Harris Natural Gas Bill be defeated in the interest of gas consumers in his state. Shortly thereafter, Senator Morton took the floor to state: " .. . I was intrigued by the remarks of the senior Senator from Wisconsin in connection with fuel. I invite the Senator's a t tention to the fact that the price of Appalachian coal at the face of the mine is the same today as it was in 1948. It is the only fuel which has not advanced in price. "Wages have risen considerably in the nine-year interim. Because of the ingenuity of the operators and the cooperation of the United Mine Workers, coal at the face of the mine, as I have said, sells today for the same price it brought in 1948. It is still the cheapest, most efficient fuel under a boiler. "We . are now working on plans to move Appalachian coal to the fire boilers of Florida, and I think we can move Appalachian coal to the great State of Wisconsin." Al l week long, the evils of "corpora te practice" of m edicine by government, unio ns, indus t ries an d• private groups were condemned, a nd the "free choice of physician" upheld as being no less essential t o America n life tha n free enterprise itself. In a ctua li ty, m os t of t he pl ans, including the UMW Fund, provide t ha t a patien t ca n choose from a number of doctors approved by the particular organiza tion, a nd the UMW Fund itself allows t ha t a benefi ciary m ay call in any outside doctor desired and have him a pproved for work through the Fund. But the A.M.A. still - sees it as a limita tion of freedom, and a start toward the end of all liberty ;' they proclaimed tha t such ~corporate" practice "in many of its for ms . . . is indistinguishable in pract ice and e1Iect from socialization of medicine and it appears to embody all of its eyils." John F. Hollister, Former Dist. 9 Official And yet, a recent report has estimated that 40 percent of the na tion's doctors are on a full or part-time salary, and thus themselves participants in the "ethically questionable" ·arrangement . John F. Hollister, of Shamokin, Pa., who served as an official of allowing a "third party" to come between the physician and his patient in their dealings. Full-scale war on the new menace , of UiJIW A District 9 for many years, died July 19 in Geisingei· is legally and practically impossible, and- the A.M.A., having Memorial Hospital, Danville, of complications. He was 86. Mr. Hollister, active in UMWA affairs at the turn of the cenwrestled with it and postponed it in hopes of finding a secret_ weapon to smash the enemy, is now adjusted to the reality that it tury, was elected to the district executive board in 1913 from can carry on nothing more than harassment. The conv';ntion had Sub-District 4 and held the post until 1931. A communicant of St. Edward's Church, Shamokin, he was to content itself finally with such small solace as could come from affiliated with the parish Holy ' Name Society and the Moose deleting the word "welfare"-said to have horrid "pa~ern~list!c" Lodge. connotations- from all its pronouncements and replacmg 1t· with Suryiving are one daughter, lVIrs. Margaret Powell, Shamokin; the word "well-being." a brother, George, Sunbury; four grandchildren and 10 great There were those who took comfort in these hopeless swipes, grandchildren. and the business of the house was concluded with the words Funeral !lervices were held Ju}Y. 22 from the Campton Funeral of Dr. B. E. Pickett of Texas who reverently said that "al- Home, Shamokin, followed by a requiem mass in St. Edward's though we all, 'ere long, may pass from amo;1g the chil- Church. Interment was in the pa1ish cemetery. dren of men, what you ·have wrought here will not pass, but' stand as a lasting monument to progressive medicine in our time." Coming from a member of the Texas delegation the the scientific half, while the side that carries on such affairs as optimism was notable, since the Lone Star contingent, af~er were held at the Waldorf is known as socio-economic. pushing for such resolutions as a propo~al to end the U. S. mThe scientific proceedings got off on encouraging notes, with come ta.'C, might well have been depress'e d at the f!nal small sal- accounts such as those of "Hearing Restoration Surgery Reported lies the A.M..A. saw fit to make against the future. There was, 'Perfected' " and "Doctors Report Unusual Operations to SaYe however comfort to be drawn in the fact that the delegates had Man's Sight," but before the week was out we had learned that once ag~in held the line against proposals to include physicia!ls in many of our athletes were hopped up with "pep pills" and that Federal Social Security. Connecticut had pressed for a national smokers of one pack of cigarettes a day might expect to h ani referendum on the matter,. and New York had thrown out caution the weed subtract seven or· eight years from their life. At the altogether. and offered a resolution noting th_at "Doctors of Medclosing session, an Air Force colonel came to inform the doctors icine are now the sole self-employed professional group excluded that "m~crowave radiation"-em~ations of electrical energy at [from Scicial Security]; and, because .of this unfair exclusion phy- frequencies of several hundred m1ll1on cycles a second-is increassicians must pa,y $7;000 to $25,000 more for · retirement and life ing all the time with new and more powerful radar and television insurance than other citizens"; and proposing that the _doctors installations, and that microwa,·e radiation can be dange1·ous bethrow in with the tide. But principle defeated temptation and cause it can destroy by heating living tissues. "Expert opinion the House of Delegates held fast to individualism. about how much microwave radiation is safe for man is not availMeanwhile, back at the Coliseum, the other half of the A.M.A's able," the colonel reported. character was confronting more universal portents of doom. The Progress presses upon us from every direction. and who can A.M.A. as is appropriate to the times, Ms a split personality: blame the A.M.A. for wanting to return to the halcyon days of ~ ? the a~t dealin with t chnical s ts • • �1..t.U S USd ,xu, ]E]]]) @~ml§ :&IL JUSTI N i\IcCARTHY,• Editor R E X L AUCK , Asst. Editor Official Publication Unit,J Mine Workers ' of Amtriea 68th Year he AUGUST 15, 1957 nate Should Be No. 16 ~a@DTI~~ [IDfi~□ ~~'u'ce@1 Orru◊@ !L@t"J o~o□ .zoo i <.• come. Furthermore, whether Attorney General Brownell believes it or not, the ·risk will be very considerable. There will be juries in the South who will fin d their ~1•dict according to the evidence, however much they •k.i~y dislike the law; and convictions will steadily increase' with the passage of time. "It will be found difficult to make a hero of a man sent to jail by a jury of his peers; but Americans sentenced by a judge without trial by jury will be ideal material for a new martyrology." With this ~ve agree wholeheartedly! Now, there has been considerable nonsen e printed about the UMWA position by newspaper pundits whowithout examining the facts-claim t hat we r e\ ersed our position on the jury trial question. We did not. We said, in the June 15 issue of the Journal, that the House version of a jury trial amendment that would provide jury trials in voting cases only was "as phony as a $3 ·bill." And it was. Bul the jury trial amendment pas ed by the Senate goes much farther and protects the rights of trial by jury in criminal contempt cases again t labor unions among others. . As UMWA members probably know the various railroad brotherhoods joined with the UMWA in endorsing the Senate's version of the bill. • It is ridicttlous for the Eisenhower administration to argue that the civil rights bill-as passed 72 to 18 by the United States Senate--is meaningless or will damage the Federal judiciary or do a number of other things that Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Jr. claims it will do. The bill should be adopted by the House of Representatives, forthwith, and sent on to the President for his signature. And if Ike is really concerned about civil rights, as he says he is, he will sign it. It will then become the Details Of 'il'he Sen©J~ce Bm first civil rights legislation to have manuevered its way through Congress in 80 years. • A statement by G. E. Leighty, president t he Order of The bill may not be perfect; but, from the standpoint Railroad Telegraphers outlines in brief wh~t t he Senate of practical politics it's the only type of civil rights legis- bill would do: (1) Set up a Federal Civil Ri 0 hts Commission; (2) Establish a Civil Rights Division ~ t he Departlation that could be gotten through the Senate. The important things about the Senate bill is that it •ment of Justice; (3) Clarify the right of an individual to· establishes a principle of public policy, just as did section secure a Federal Court injunction to protect his voting 7A of the National Industrial Recovery Act_when it said right; (4) Permit the Federal government, wit h or \vithworking-men had the right to join unions of their own . out the consent of the aggrieved; to obtain injunctions choosing and bargain collectively with their employers. against interferences with individual vot ing rights; (5) It is the principle of enforcing the Constitutional right to Guarantee those accused under this latter procedure of criminal contempt of court a jury trial in disposing of ~~ their violations; (6) Extend the right of jury trial in cerEven the most rabid_race baiter in the Senate from a tain labor cases; (7) Reaffirm the right of citizens to Southern state did not dare to say that Negro Americans serve on Federal juries without discrimination. did not' have the right" to vote. The question, of course, . Leighty adds: "This is a civil rights measure that will is how to enforce this right. go a long way in improving the race problems with which we are confronted. It represents ' the cumulative effort House Bill Was No Good of determined men, working within the framework of our• We happen to think that the original House version legislative establishment, to produce a workable bill of the civil rights bill ·and any other bill that would have which will be a .constructive step forward. All sides have forced down the throats of Southern whites a Federal been willing to bend a little in order that the final result judge's order-without..a jury trial-would not have done . might be reasonably acceptable to the greatest numbei· anything' to enforce the right to vote. of people." Perhaps it would have given the Republican Party a It is quite obvious that under the. bill great public great campaign issue next year among northern Negroes. pressure can, should· and, we hope, iwill be brought to But, we repeat, it would not have enforced the right to bear upon Southern election officials who prevent Amervote. Rather it would have created great bitterness, ani- icans from voting because of their color. mosity and emotional turmoil between the races in the Investigations of such violati9ns ought to be carried South. And it would have made sort of heroes out of on vigorously by the Civil Rights Commission and the those white citizens who were sent to jail or fined by a Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, which judge. are established under the Senate bill. Such investigaGerald W. Johnson, veteran Baltimore newspaperman, tions and any court actions, we are sure, will receive t_he historian and free lance writer, states in The New widest possible publicity in the newspapers, magazines, Republic: • over the radio and on television because this "American "If _one Southern election official is put to the risk and Dilemma" of racial prejudice is one of the great moral trouble of standing trial, the lesson will not be lost even issues of our time. if the first one is acquitted. Mere persecution is no joke. Southern whites are a proud, haughty and many times It is bothersome and expensive, regardless of the out- misled people. But there are many, many white per' _, �SQns in the South who are ash~med of. ~he way their Negro· brethren have been and still are being treated. And the numbers bf these are constantly increasing as the -Zouth "grows" up, as rn,ore industrialization takes place, ~ more union organization takes place and as the Negro people r eceive better education and better opportunities for decent jobs at decent pay. The superb record of the UMWA in bringing about better relations between the races is a case in point. Other unions are beginning to make. similar progress in the South. The progress will continue. It will continue despite the actions of some Southern demagogues who still believe in the institution of human slavery. . It cannot , however, be done overnight. It has taken .80 years to get any kind of civil rights pill through the Senate. So, we say, give it a chance. And give the South a chance to prove its good fait h. Give the South a chance to get over its phobia on the question. But. keep the pressure on- at all times. ' 1 We think it is not t rue that no Southern jury will ever convict in a civil r ights case. Perhaps some will not convict, but t he jury t rial ·system i's a human institu"What's all the fuss about, Brother?" tion and one of the basic principles of our law-handed down to us fyom E nglish common law. Federal judges are human, t oo. We have not, for example, always agreed Fly Ash, Once A Nuisance Waste Product, with the august justices of the ·_u nited States Supreme Now Has M any Valuable Uses In Industry Fly ash-a coal residue that once was a real headCourt. Nor have a lot of otper people. ache to the multi-billion dollar electric utility industryBut ours is a nation of laws and not of men. has become a useful by-product and an increasingly Let the white light of nationwide publicity shine on important material in the construction field. , t he investigations and trials that will inevitably come The job of getting rid of fly ash in an industry that from enforcement of the civil rights bill. We think there is consuming about 160 million tons of coal annually will be progress. • was quite costly, especially for utilities located in large The UMWA, as is well known, has a large Negro cities. The Connecticut Power & Light Co., for example, membership. Just how large we don't know because we used to spend $100,000 a year -to get rid of 100,000 tons don't keep track of such things. This is in accordance of fly ash. with the Union's constitution adopted in. 1890. It says, Now the company has found that fly ash can be used in effect, that a coal miner is a coal miner no matter in three ways~ 1 In the manufacture of cinder blocks; 2 what his color or creed or nationality. In concrete, in place of cement, up to about 20 percent, .And the Constitution of the United States says that and 3 As a road building material mixed with earth and an American citizen is an American citizen no matter lime to form a surface bed for asphalt. 'what his race, creed or national hackground .. _T he Am~can Gas & Electric System uses fly ash tp So, give the civil rights bill a chance to work! Let's make concrete for its new' power plants. Utility people ·s ay that concrete made up in part of get the Senate bill through the House as quickly as posfly ash is more durable than ordinary concrete. sible and signed into law. The Detroit Edison Co. pioneered research in the use of fly ash back in the early 1930s. The, research pro• Into The M ines With Goldwater Sen. Barry M. "Barren" Goldwater, who sponsored a gram is now headed by Bituminous Coal Research, Inc. Since 1950, nine states have used fly ash in sections bill 'to permit the shipment of live scorpions through the of new road construction and BCR says initial reports mails in· the last session .of Congress, has now come up have been-·favorable. Pennsylvania is the most recent with another poisonous idea. state to build a fly-ash based road for test purposes. The Ariz~na Republican, an avowed enemy of work- A 500-foot road was laid last year in Penn Township, ing people, wants to abolish all Federal insp~tion of near Pittsburgh. The project used 67 tons of fly ash. mines. This, of course, is because the "hard rock" miners Price of the residue material varies from $1 to ~2 a in his state have been trying to get some Federal protec- ton. tion for their lives and limbs similar to that given coal Bituminous Coal Research, Inc. estimates that $1.5 miners in the Federal Coal Mine Safety Act of 1952. million -was saved in the building of the $103-million We have several suggestions about what should be Hungry Horse Dam in Montana by using 135,000 tons of -done with Senator Goldwater and his "idea." Unfor- fly ash. · .The material also has been used in a number of. tunately, most of them are unprintable in a family jour- other dams. nal. However, one that would, we are sure, appeal to A brewing company in Pittsburgh has discovered an members of the UMWA would be to retire him from the unusual use. It mixes fly ash, brewers' yeast and dilute Senate and.send him to work in a nice gassy coal mine-- sulphuric acid to clean the large copper kettles in the preferably one that employs fewer than 15 men under- brewery. ground so that no Federal inspector could interfere with These uses of what was once thought of as a waste his inalienable right to be blown ,to bits in an explosion, product are examples of what research and constant ator have his back broken in a roof fall. • tention to conservation can do for the coal indus!ry. �.... 7:lte Stor11 of Americ11 's eon! Miners A Brief H·~.<;9"'© r ry INTRODUCTORY NOTE: The follow ing-"A Brief History of the United Mine Workers of Ameri ca" -w as w ritte11 by Justin McCarthy, editor of the Journal, an d ha s bee n .distributed to thousands of librari~s, newspap e rs, UMWA District offices, students and other interested p e rso ns. It has been translated into Spanish and made a vailab le to workers in Latin American countries. It i,s reprint ed he re so that every UMWA irsember will be able to read it a nd have a copy for future reference. theU Today the United Mine Workers of America and their leaders constitute a living symbol of what free men, working together with an incomparable unity of purpo e, ca n accomplish. American coal miners tod~y arc the bes t paid industrial workers in the world ; they have comparatively good working conditions and in sickness and age they are protc ted by a wel fa re and retirement program that js, as yet, unmatched in any other industry or any other country. These goals have been wop by the uni ty of purpose of America's half million mine workers and the devotion and singleness of policy of the leader of their Much of the st9ry of the American workingman's struggle Union, working within the framew~irk of a democratic society. for a better way of life, for better wages and working conditions But it was not always tht,1s. America was a n infant nation and for the inalienable rights struggling to congu r the wil~ of life, liberty and the pursuit der11ess back in 1840s when of happiness is the story of the .coal miner of Pennsyl"There is no truth more obvious than that withAmerica's coal Jajn~rs. vani a first decided to form a out coal there could not have been such marvelous /. The reason is that Amerunion to ca rry on the fight . social and industrial progress as n;iarks present-day . ican miners, like coaJ miners ag. ~inst the intolerable workcivilization. everywhere, are men nf great ing conditions of tha t time. In ''Believing that those ~ hose lot it is to toil within dignity, great pride and gre,:\.t those days miners were among bravery. Perhaps it has been the most poorly paid workers the e::Jrth's rec~sses surrou nded by peculiar dangers best stated by the man who in the country ; safety condia_n 4 ~grived Qf sunlight and p~re air, produ~ing the has been the Pres~dent of µieir tions were deplorable; hours commodity whi~h makes possible the w orld's progof work ranged as high as 15 Union, the United Min~ Workress, are . entitled to protectioq and an eqt)itable • ers of America, since 1920. a day ; there were no days off share of the fruits of their labor, we have formed the nor holidays; the miners were These are the words of J 0/111 United Mine. Workers of America for the purpose L. Lewis: truly serfs, their lives literally of establishing, by lawful means,. the principles em"The public dQes not subject to the whims of the braced in the body of t:4is Constitution." understand, and · I thiiik: employers. The first coal miners' union never will, that almost spir,(Preamble to the Constitution of the lnternatio_nal in America was forrpcd in the itu~ feaJty that exist, pe• Union, Unit ed Mine Workers of America, organized anthracite, or hard coal region tween men who go dqwn January 25, 1890.) of Northeastern Pennsylvania. into the qangers of the In those days th~re was very mine and work togeth~rlittle industry in the United ~at fealty of understaiµI ~ . ing and brotherhQod that e?(ist_s iµ our caJJjng to a more State_s and coal was_used almost exclusively for l:g~~ting p~rposes pronounced degree than iµ qny ot:l}er i11du_stry, The and ·not for the creatipn of pqwer .o r steel or chemicals. • This early union of coal miners in ·America suffered the fate pubJic doe§ not know that a inan wh«;> ·w.o rks in a coal mine is not afraid of aJ)ything ~):cept his Gofi; that he i_s of many organizations . of p:uners that WCT!'! to follow it. They not afraic;! of injunctions, or pplitipi~n~, or threats or de- were literally forc!!d out of e~-ist~nce by the t~rroris.t tactics of nunciations, or verJ:>aJ castigation, or slander-that he does the wealthy owners of the mining companies who refused to listen to the complaints of tli.eir ·employes. F-or those were the not fear dea~." • days when it was regarded as c..on.:;_piracy. against government There are so many "firsts" in µle history of the UMW A that it would be almost impossible to accoqnt for each of theµi for men to join together and strike in protest against insufferin a brief book. One of tho most significant "firsts," and one able working condit[ops. It became obvious to the coal miners, iiS a result of these that enabled the U~n to organiz.e coal miners throughout the · length and breadth of America-North and South-can best early efforts to organize unjons, t4at they m4st form . a strong, be stated by quoting from the Constitution Qf t)le International nationwide union of miners if they were to sqcceed in winning Union as it was first adopted in 1890. The first paragraph of better conditions. The first step in this direction was taken in the section of the governing law of the U.M W A concerning 1860 in the State of Illinois by· two English mine workers who had come to America in the belief that they would find a better objectives states: "To unite in one organization, regardless of c;reed, color way of life for themselves and their families. With other mine or nationality, all work(!rs t1ligibla for m embership, employed workers from the Midwestern- American soft coal fields they in and around coal mines, coal washt1ries, coal proccslirzg plants, formed the American Miners Association. It lasted until the coke ovens1 and in such othBr industriqt ~ mf!,y ~B dt1signated Q'Y financial panic of UJ73. Meanwhile, organizational efforts ~ntlze International Executivs Board, on the American contin f'lt,". tinued in the hard coal field, E>f Pennsylvania. Various local Thus the UMWA w;u the: fint labor orgJt~ti9n in America 11nions of hard .coal min.en jouied togethel' in 1868 to try to win to i~corporate into. its Const.i~tion al!- u~q~ali?ed prohibition · -tn eight-hour work day. They .were not entfrely suc~essful but their work stoppage did help to stablllze the glutted coal market, against. racial, religious Qr natwnal ~scnmmation, �/ , During the Civil War period in America thousands of English, Welsh, Scotch and Irisq. mine workers came to the United States. Their knowledge of union organization work gave new ~jt to the drives to brlng unionism to the American mines. The first joint conference between mine workers' representatives a nd coal operators in the history of the American coal industry was held in Scranton, Pa., in the hard coal fields in 1869. A written contract based on the decisions of this confercnce was signed at Pottsville, Pa., in 1870. Among other things it provided for wages of $16 a week for the anthracite miners. At the sa me time, the coal miners were beginning their long a nd still con tinuing fi ght for safety in the mines. First efforts in this d irection were made in 1858, but it was not until 1?69 th at the Pennsylvani a Legislature passed a safety law and !his law provided only for mine inspections in one county in the ta te. I t was nearly 100 years later, in 1952, that the United Mine \1Vorkers of merica were able to get a law passed by the Fedral Congress granting authority to Federal mine ,inspectors .to lose down hazard ous mines. This never-ending battle for safer coal mines has been one of the major activities of organizcd America n coal miners from the very earliest days and _continu s today. American coal miners learned early in the game that socalled cost-of-living agreements with the employers were of no benefit to the miners. As long ago as 1870 the anthracite miners igned su ch an agreement with the coal operators. It was known as a sliding-s.cale · agrcement and tied coal wages to c~al prices. O ver-production of coal-the chronic ,ill of the American coal industry- soon started price cutting among the emplayers. And as p,riccs were slashed wages went down. The struggles of co~! miners in both the bituminous and anthracite fi elds for union organization went on during the late 1800s, but without much success. Local, state and regional organizations soon,...were wiped out because of financial and organizational weaknesses. ' The 1880s saw stepped-up efforts by the mine workers to form national organizations. Two groups were principally active, the Knights of Labor and the National Progressive Union of Miners and Mine Laborers, The latter organization was affiliated with the newly formed Americ~n Fcdcratiqn of Labor, then under the leadership of Samuel Gompers. Intense and sometimes bitter rivalry plagued the organization efforts of the two unions. It Wc!-5 during · this period in 1886, that the first interstate coal wage agreement in American history was signed by coal operators and union mine worl<ers in Columbus, Qhio. The agreement established basic wages in Pennsylvania, Ohio, InTHAT SO-CAI-L.EQ COST - OF - ,LIVING AGREE diana, Illinois, Iowa a11d West Virginia, the principal coalproducing states in the United States at that time. The mine workers soon learned that they could not succeed in their struggles for bette.r wages and working conditions with a split in their ranks between rival unions. After much negotiating, .representatives of the miners who belonged to the Knights of Labor and those belonging to the National Progressive Union met in Columbus, Ohio, and on January ~. 1890, formed the Unjted Mine Workers of America. The new Union represented 25,000 coa'l miners at that time. The infant Union decided to work for an eight-hour day in the mines. Efforts to win a shorter work day from · the coal operators were unsuccessful and the Union called a strike in 1891. It failed except in a few areas where the eight-hour day was won. It was on April 1, 1898, that the UMWA finally won the eight-hour day for a substantiai number of coal miners. April 1 is an_ annual holiday in the mines throughout America in commemoration of this early victory. The struggle for a shorter work day in the mines was not finally won throughout the Am_erican coal fields until 1933 under the leadership of Mr. Lewis. • There have been two truly great Presidents of the United Mine workers of America who will be revered by coal miners as long as coal is dug. bne is the present leader, J olzn Llewellyn Lewis. The other w~ Jolzn Mitchell. Mitchell was 28 when he became the fifth President of the UMW A. He led hard coal miners in Penn,sylv~a to a gre~t Union victory in 1900. October 29, 1900, was the day when a general strike in the anthracite fields ,ended in ,a · resounding victory for the miners. Ea<;h October ~9 since th<m, the hard coal miners observe an official holiday in honor of Mit~hell. Among the evils that plagued the anthracite miners when Mitchell became UMW A President were· company-owned stores at which the miners were required to trade and which charged exorbitant prices, company cheating on the weighing of coal, ex'tremely low wages, long hours, bad safety conditions, bad housing, child labor, and no provision for medical care for sick and injured miners. Mitchell's leadership enabled the mine workers to correct many of these grievances. By 1901 the 11-year-old UMWA had increased its membership to more than 200,000. ., An infamous example of the attitude toward trade unions taken by the coal operators of that time was the statement of George F. Bae,r, then president of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co:, one of the largest companies in the hard coal fields. Baer wrote what has since become known as the "divine right" letter. He stated: "The rights and interests of the laboring man will be WAc;;ES CUT AGAIN ANO WITH SPLIT UNIONS WE CAN NOT WIN BETTER WAGE'S AND WORKING CONDITIONS! �OESPITe THE VICTORIES WON SY MITCHELL.'S LEADERSHIP THE UM WA HAO MANY HARD TIMES IN THE EARLY ,qoo's. STRIKE:. BREAKINGS SY STATE MILITIAMEN AND COAL COMPANY GUARDS. THE UNION WAS FORCED 1t> FIGHT ON ALL FRONTS AGAINST LEGAL. ACTIONS, SUITS, INJUNCTIONS, ANTI-LABOR LEGISLATION,.,. protected and cared for, not by the labor agitators but by the Christian men to whom God in His infinite wisdom has given the control of the property interests of the country and upon the successful management of which so much depends." and coal company guards and bad market conditions in the industry. The ' question that was to · split the American labor movement into warring camps in the 1930s fi rst arose in the 1911 Q The 1902 strike in the anthracite industry led to intervention convention of the UMWA. Then the Union adopted a resoluby the Federal government and the appointment by President tion calling for organization of the work rs in the mass producTheodore Roosevelt of a commission. Both the coal operators tion industries in' America into union similar to the -United and the Union agreed to abide by the decisions of this com- Mine Workers. This type of union is known as an industrial mission. The commission, after lengthy hearings, recommended ~nion ~ that it takes into membership all the v. orkcrs in a parwage increases and other improved working conditions for the t.Jcular mdustry regardless of the jobs the) p rform. All the miners. The award made by _this commission became the basic other unions in the American Federation of L abor at this time agreement between the Union and the anthracite industry. It were so-called craft unions, made up of workers in a particular was also at this time that the Anthracite Board of Conciliation trade such as carpentry or bricklaying. Later a bitter opponent of industrial unionism, William '':as established. This board, made up of miners and coal operGreen, late president of the American Federa tion of Labor ators, ,vas to settle disputes over interpretation of the contract was a strong advocate of industry-wide unions in 1911, when between the Union and the industry. If the board could not he was International Statistician of th e UMW A. H e urged "a reach agreement the matter was referred for settlement to a complete industrial syst9TI of organization." :tvfr. Green served full-time umpire selected by both sides. This board has been from 1911 to 1924 with the International H eadquarters of the in continuous existence since 1903 and is the oldest industrial UM,.YA, most of the time as Secretary-Treasurer, and was disputes settlement board in existence' in America. elected president of the AFL in 1925 after the death of Mr. UMWA Was Pro-Mechaniz:ation Gompers in 1924. Mr. Green was Mr. Lewis' candidate for It was in those early days of the Union that. the question of _- the AFL presidency although Mr. Gompers had personally policy on machinery in the mines came up. The Union decided favored M attl,ew W oil, an AFL vice president and head of -and has held to this policy ever since-that it would encourage the small International Photo-Engravers Union. mechanization of the coal industry as a means of increasing pro1912: Operators Recogniz:e UMWA ductivity, cutting produ·c tion costs and giving the miners an inThe year 1912 brought the first formal recognition of the creased chance to obtain high wages and better working conditions .. The miners took the position that increased production UMW A as such, by the anthracite operators and this helped the was the only way they could obtain these better conditions. · This Union win new dues-paying members. During the early 1900s the policy is in sharp contrast to the policy of many other unions Union also was busy trying to win new members in the soft coal fields and to maintain collective bargainina relations with in Europe and America. the bituminous coal operators in what was the~ known as the Mr. Lewis commented recently on this policy. He said: Central Competitive Field. This included the soft coal fields ''We decided that question long years ago. We decided in Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. Mine it's better to have a half a million inen working in the in- Workers' representatives and Central Competitive Field coal opdustry at good wages, high standards ·of living, than it is erators held joint conferenccs to settle their differences during to have a million men .working in the industry in poverty most of the time from 1898 to 1919 with no · national strikes and degradation." • and only a few short suspensions of work while the miners Mr. Lewis added that "in rettirn for encouraging modern- awaited the signing of ne,v contracts. • ization, ihe utilization of machinery and power in the mines The year 1913 brought a signal honor to the UMWA when and modem techniques, the Union . . . insists on a clear par- President Woodrow Wilson named W. B. Wilson, then Interticipation in the advantages of the machine and the improved national Secretary-Treasurer of the Union, as the first Secretary of Labor iµ the newly created. cabinet post. techniques." But the next year, 1914, will always live in infamy in the Despite the victories won under Mitchell's leadership, the UMWA had manf hard times in the early 1900s. In addition history of American labor. It was on~April 20 of that year that to comtant battles with the coal operators, the Union was the Ludlow Massacre occurred. The Miners' Union had been forced to :fight on all fronts against legal actions, suits, injunc- trying for years to win recognition in the-coal fields of Colorado tions, anti-labor legislation, strike-breaking by state militiamen and other Western states. They were· bitterly and brutally opI �August 15, 1957 United Mine Workers Joitrnal " posed by the employers, led by the millionaire .Jonn D. Rockefeller. Climax to the opposition to the Union came when ~olorado militiamen, coal company guards and thugs employed as private detectives and strike-breakers by the Rockefeller interests shot and burned-to · death 20 persons, including two mine .work r ' wives and 11 children. • The massacre took place during a carefully planned attack on a miners' tent colony near the Colorado town. The miners and their families had oeen ousted from their corripany-owncd houses by ' the guards and had set up their tents on public property. Not one of the perpetrators of the laughter ever was punished, but the strikers · and UMWA offi cials were imprisoned by the score. A shocked American public acted through the Federal government' which moved regula r Army troops into the area to restore Circler. ~ Such incidents were an old story to coal miners and their fam ilie • bcatin!!S, shootings and deprivation of civil liberties had been th e order of the day in. the coal fiel~s of America for generations. Because mining camps usually were isolated, the n \ spaper and general public seldom heard ·of conditions in 1:he oal indu stry. There was complete company domination of every phase of the daily lives of miners, enforced by professional gunmen such as the Coal and Iron Police in Pennsylvania and the Bald win-F Its Detective Agency in West Virginia. And the c same gu n thugs saw to it that an "iron curtain" was drawn around the coal camps to keep the public from learning of the conditions of serfdom under which miners lived. ". . . Police Had 'l>ersuaders' " '" Even interested newspapermen-.md there were very few of them in those days-found it virtually impossible to "invade" the armed camps of the coal mining areas. Strangers were not welcome and the coal police had "pcrsuaders"-in the form of arsenals of wc;apons-to keep the curious away. As the years have passed, such matters have been somewhat dimmed by time, by later successes of the Union, by Federal legislation guaranteeing to American workers the right to organize and bargain collectively, by government investigations, by recognition of unions as part of the American way of life, and by the tremendous growth in membership and economic strength of the union movement. But to the average coal miner in his 5o"s the bitter memories of these early days will never be dimmed. Perhaps this is one reason ·why _the United Mine Workers of America has been from the beginning and is today t~e most militant and aggressive union in the country. It was in the early 1900s that John L; Lewis began his long career as an American labor leader. After substantial successes -~leading · the legislative activities of ,the Illinois coal miners, Lewis worked for a time for Mr. Gompers and the American Federation of Labor. He was. born in Lucas, Iowa, of Welsh parents, on February 12, 1880, on the birthday of the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln. Lewis' early career included work in the · coal mines, metal mines, and much traveling over the length and breadth of the United States and into Mexico and Canada. His first official assignment for the UMW A was as a delegate from an Iowa Local Union to the 1906 International Convention of the UMWA. . In 1910 and 1911 Lewis worked as legislative representative in District 12 (Illinois) and from 1911 to 1917 he was assigned to the AFL by Mr. Gompers. • By 1916, Lewis had proved his ability in Union affairs so that he was named chairman of the all-important resolutions committee of the UM,v A Convention in that year. In 1917 he was named International Statistician of the Union. He rose from there to become busine_ss manager of the Union's newspaper, the United Mine Workers J orernal, Vice President of the International Union Acting President and finilly President in 1920-a position t~ which he has been reelected ever since. Thomas Kennedy Starts To Climb Another young American coal miner was starting his climb in International Union affairs in the early 1900s. He is Thomas Kennedy, who went to work in the anthracite mines in Northeastern Pennsylvania ~t the age of ten and rose to become Lieutenant-Governor of Pennsylvania, President of a UMW A District, International Secretary-Treasurer, and finally International Vice Pr sident of the UMWA-the position he holds with the Union today. · Kennedy was born in Lansford, Pa., November 2, 1887 • Still a third UMW A leader was beginning his career in the early 1900s, He is John Owens, present International Secretary-Treasurer. • Owens was born in Clydach Vale, South Wales, on October 29, 1890, and came to America with his parents a an infant. ·The family settled in Ohio and Owens went to work in the mines at the age of ten. His career with the Union has included posts as checkweighman in a local union, local secn·tary, president of an Ohio subdistrict, President of the Ohio District of the UMWA, Special Assistant to President Lewis, and now International Secretary-Treasurer. . The late Philip Murray, who directed the organization of America's steelworkers and later became president of the United Steelworkers of America and successor to John L. Lewis as president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, aLo started his career in the coal mines of America and served a · President of the Union's Pittsburgh District and for many ye:m as International Vice Pre_sident of the UMW A. There are scores of other former officials of the Ul\flVA serving the American labor movement in various capacities of leadership in other unions. THESE MINERS WONT ORGANIZE A UNION HERE,_ 8URN THEM OUT, M~N / , ----=-"-- Page 15 ., ____, NEWSPAPER MEN AREN"T WELCOME IN Tl-11S :--..-• MINING CAMP �u niled Mine ·w01·ke1'S J01,('r.1ial l UMb! lU August 15, 1957 ( The years of 'World '"rar I brought a certain amount of stability to American coal production and the UMW A made mu~ progress in its drive to build the organization. The end of the · war, however, brought depression to the industry and a concerted drive by the employers to break the union. These were hard, lean years for the U:tvfvVA and for John L. Lewis. Poverty, unemployment, low wages, long hours and violence stalked through the coal fields. Dissension in the Union's ranks, spurred on by communists " ·ho set up a dualunion organization, and the union-bustin g efforts of the coal operators brought a decline in membership from more than 600,000 in 1923 to approximately 200,000 by the late 1920s. The UMWA was one of the firs t organizations in the United .States to take · definite action against communist attempts to ~rupt the labor movement. As early as 1923 the Union's International Executive Board warned against the menace of communism and in 1927 the· International Convention amended its Constitution to prohibit members of the Communist' Party from belonging to the United Mine Workers of America. By the time of the great stock market crash in 1929, there were more than 200,000 unemployed coal miners. Operators engaged in cut-throat competition to the point where coal was being sold below production costs and w ages had been slashed to as little as $1.50 a day in -areas in the South. The UMWA sought help from the Federal government in ·the form of IegisBY THE TIME OF THE GREAT STOC.K MARKET CRASH IN 1q2q, THERE WERE MORE THAN 200,000 UNEMPLOYED COAL MINERS. N R This clause also was the key. to the organizing success of the CIO--the Committee for Industrial Organization- founded and directed by John L. Lewis in the New. Deal era to bri~ unionism to -millions of working men and women in America's gigantiG mass-production industries such as the steel a nd ' auto industries. • • .With. its great -1933 organizing driv~ in th - coal fi elds a success, the_UMWA move9, with the help of the Fed ral governmen_t, to convene a joir.t wage conference with the coal oper.ators for t~e purpose of negotiatiing a working agreement in the industry. After three months of meetings and a one-day strike as a show of Union strength the operators signed the Appalachian Wage Agreement-in effect, the fir t ational Wage ,O.greement-and a code of fair competi tion in the industry. . Wages were boosted in mines in both the orth and South. The 40-hour work week was es tablished . Grievance machinery was provided. Company stores were to be regulated. The practice of paying coal miners with scrip instead of money was abolished. And most important of all, the l\1W A was recognized by the oper~tors as the collective bargaining agency ' for the coal miners. This first Appala<:hian Wage Agreement was the basis for the present industry-wide contracts in the coal industry. The Union next conducted a sort of moppi ng-up campaign, with the first objective the recognition of the U nion in the so- A JOHN L. LEWIS MOVED QUICKLY TO REORGANIZE THE DEPRESSION-BATTERED UNION. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT'S NEW DEAL ' GAVE NEW LIFE TO THE UMWA. lation designed to stabilize the industry, but without success. Some in the Union advocated nationalization of the industry as a solution but this was opposed by Mr. Lewis and his administration. This difference over policy was one of the principal reasons for the dissension in the ranks of the Union during the 1920s. • The election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as President of the United States in 1932 and the advent of the New Deal gave new life to the UMW A. Mr. Lewis moved quickly and aggressively to reorganize the depression-battered Union. UMWA representatives were dispatched throughout the coal fields to preach the gospel of unionism. Key to the tremendous success of the 90-day whirlwind drive that brought hundreds of thousands of coal miners back into the ranks in 1933 was a UMWAinspired clause in a law passed by Congress in the early days of President Roosevelt's administration. This clause was known as Section 7A of the National Industrial Recovery Act. The clause was the brainchild of the UMW A and John L. Lewis. Efforts to get it passed in coal-stabilization legislation sponsored by the UMWA in 1928 and 1930 had been unsuccessful. But the section was -lifted from these bills which had failed to pass Congress and inserted in the NIR...\. Section 7A said, in effect, that the Federal -government guaranteed to American working men and women the right to organize into unions and bargain col, i.. __ : _ -~ - called captive mines of the steel industry. These are mines owned by the steel industry, .the coal from which is used entirely in the production of steel. The UMWA won a partial victory at this time and · later brought all of the steel industry's coal miners into the Union. Significance of this victory in the· early New Deal days was .t he fact that it was the first time in American industrial history that the steel companies ever had signe~ a wage agreement with a uniori. • •With its own affairs once again in gooc;l order, the UMW A turned its attention to the pressing problem of building the union movement in America. The 1934 UMW A Convention voted unanimous approval of Mr. • Lewis' recommendations that UMW A delegates to the AFL conveption that year press for organization of the mass-production industries. The UMWA delegates were successful in getting a resolu-. tion passed at the AFL convention authorizing AFL leaders to grant industrial union charters to the nuclei of unions that were springing up in soxlie: of the mass-production industries.. But a ·year went by without much· progress and in 1935 Mr. ~ewis ~nd some other AFL union leaders decided to take defimte act.Ion. The program proposed by them to the 1935 A'!L conve~tion was defeated but Mr. Lewis quickly called a meeting of the mterested labor leaders. This meeting established the Committee for Industrial Organization that was, within .th; next fe~ Y,ears, to mximatch~ fiyn millin _:worlic , 1 thuJliiiien nma11- �August 15, 1957 United- Mine Workers Journal production industries into industrial unions, similar in structure in 1940 in Columbus, Ohio, city of the Union's birth, found the to the UMW A. Backbone of the organizing drive was the treas- miners' organization in its strongest position in history up to that ur~f the UMW A and the exp.erienced organiz(';rs who, just time. A strong leadership, a loyal membership, a sound treasury shortly before, had successfully reorganized · the coal industry. and good contracts with the coal operators throughout the coal UMW A Vice President Philip Murray became chairman of ~elds were among the assets of the 'UMWA as it celebrated its the Steel Workers Organizing Committee of the CIO. The 5.0th anniversary. Miners' 'Union supplied hundreds· of leaders and organizers to But this convention also saw an open break between John the drive .. Nine months of intensive work by Mr. Le,-v.is and his . L. Lewis and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Irritation between aides brought victory in the drive to organize the United States the head of the CIO and the President of the United States had Steel Corp. when it signed the first contract with the SWOC. been increasing since 1937 when the President criticized both the The CIO moved quickly to take advantage of the desires and CIO and the Little Steel iz:idustry following the killing and beathopes of m illions of workers in the mass-production industries ing of a number of striking steelworkers by _company guards and for union organization. Within a short while contr~cts were state and local police. President Roosevelt had said "a plague signed in the a uto industry, in the farm equipment industry, in on both your houses." the meat p a king industry and in scores 6f other major industries •. Mr. Lewis replied: "It ill behooves one who has supped. that never b fore had dealt with unions. Some of these.indusat labor's table and who has been sheltered in labor's tries accepted collective bargaining wi!!iout too much show of house to curse with equal fervor and fine impartiality both opposition . Others fought the unions with the same techniques labor and its adversaries when they become· locked in that the coal operators had used in the past against the Miners' deadly embrace." Union. There was bloody strife in some cases in the automobile . industry and in the so-called Little Steel industry. In ~dditidn By the time of the 1940 UMWA Convention Mr. Lewis was to fighting th e employers, the CIO had to battle against the convinced that President Roosevelt should not be supported by opposition of the American Federation of Labor which, "in an organized labor for a third term. He said so in no uncertain action regarded as not in accordance with the Federation's con- terms and threw his support to Wendell ·L. Willkie, the Restitution, had expelled the C_IO unions from the Federation. pul?lican :rarty candidate. Mr. Lewis said he would resign as MR. LEWIS ANO HIS AIDES BROUGHT VICTORY IN THE DRIVE TO ORGANIZE THE UNITED STATES STEEL CORP. THAT 'MEANS ALL COAL MINERS MUST JOIN THE UMWA. THE UMWA \M'.)N ITS DEMANDS FOR ABOLITION OF THE SOUTHERN WAGE DIFFERENTIAL. BASIC WAGE WENT TO t7 A DAY. All during this period, the UMWA was building its own CIO president if Mr. Roosevelt were re-elected. That is what strength and was successful in boosting wages and bettering ' happened. · Mr. Lewis stepped down as head of the CIO and working conditions throughout the coal industry. On the legis- was replaced by Mr. Murray. _ lative front, the UMWA was able to geca bill through Congress The UMWA chief then turned ·his full attention to the regulating the coal industry's pricing poltcies to prohibit the in- affairs of the UMWA with the first objective the abolition of dustry fx:om selling coal below production cost. On the political the Southern wage differential. For years back, workers in front, the UMWA set up Labor's Non-Partisan League with the Southern United States had been paid less than workers the help of aU CIO unions and some AFL organizations. Initial performing similar jobs in the Northern states. This practice purpose of this labor ,political group was to work for the re- was based ori the employers' fallacious theory that the cost of election of President Roosevelt in 1936. E:\.-panding its own ac- living waslless in the South. The UMWA won its demands for tivities, the UMWA established District 50 of the United abolition of this differential in 1941 and basic wages throughMine Worker-s to organize employes of the by-products indus- out the cqal fields-North and South-;-went to $7 a day. Next tries of the coal industry, such as the chemical industry. the UMWA successfully carried on negotiations to win the union In 1938 the Committee for Industrial Organization's 33 shop for workers in the steel indi.{st:ry's captive mines. unions met in Pit~burgh to form a constitutional organization . In an effort to heal the split in the American labor moveto be known as the Congress of Industrial Organizations, re- ment, Mr. ,Lewis proposed a return to the AFL of all CIO taining the initials C~O, which had become a symbol of a better unions, with the matter of jurisdictional differences between way of life for millions of factory workers in America. Mr. Lewis, unions to be settled later. Nothing came of the proposal. • who had been chairman of the Committee for Industrial OrAmerica's entry into World War II saw the government conganization, was elected first president of the new Congress of vene a Labor-Management Conference in an effort to try t,c, Industrial Organizations. wq_rk out a formula for labor-management stability during the The year 1939 found the UMWA battling for and winning war. Labor was asked to give up its right to strike but managea union shop in the coal industry. This made it mandatory for ment representatives were unwilling to make any concessions. all coal miners to join the UMW A. Mr. Lewis declined to agree to the so-called labor-management Golden Anniversa Convention of the UMWA. held nearP. fommhi fnr thic: 'N":lc:nn �United iVline Workers Journal Differences· between Mr. Lewis and Mr. l'vfurray over this and other matters I~d to Murray's removal as Vice President of the UMWA and a short while )ater to the withdrawal of the UMWA from the CIO. . Meanwhile, collective bargaining between management a11d labor was replaced by government directive, the practical effect of which was to freeze wages at 15 percent above the level that had existed in January 1941. The Mine Workers were among the first to rebel against what they regarq,cd as an arbitrary formula which they felt did not take into consideration their problems brought on by sharp increases in the cost of living. • Efforts to_ make adjustments in coal miners' wages in 1943 met with flat rejection by the coal operators who d ecided to depend on the government to see to it tha t no \\ age increases were granted. Protest strik~s- by the miners led eve ntually to government seizure of the soft coal industry, gove rn ment-sponsored negotiations and the winning of improved conditions by theUMWA. World War II; Miners Worked Hard For the next two years, from 1943 through 1945, the miners more than made up for the slight loss of production during the 1943 strike by_working nine hours a day and six and sometimes seven days a week to supply coal ,to the American military machine and to America's allies. The first formal proposal for the creation of a welfare fund for America's coal miners was made to the coal operators by the UMWA in 1945. It was an old dream of the Union dating back to 1925. Nothing came of the proposal that year and the Union settled for improved wages and work_ing conditions. But 1946 saw determined UMWA set out to win welfare benefits for the nation's nearly half a million mine workers and members of their families. To the proposal that the coal industry should make some provision to ~are for the sick, injured and aged of the nation's most basic industry th'e coal operators · turned deaf. ears. A strike to win the welfare demand led_ to seizure of. the industry by the ·Federal governrneni once again. Mr. Lewis finally was able to negotiate a contract with the government, calling for the payment of a 5-cent-a-ton royalty by the industry for the establishment of the United Mine Workers •of a 0 • America Welfare and Retirement Fund. America's coal miners will tell you that if John L . Lewis never had won another benefit for them he would be remembered with greatest affec.tion for his winning of this _Welfare Fund. • Years· of hardship and suffering by the men who worked in the accident-ridden co~I industry with<;mt fi.- August 15, 1957 nanci~l help, 'medical care, retirement or death benefits protection for themselves and their families had come to an end. Today the Miners' Welfare Fund is in s.,.tnd financial shape, well administered, and more than a million persons, the crippled, sick, injured and aged of the coal industry and miners' widows and orphans, have received benefits. The Fund now provides $1,000 death benefits, $100-a-month' pensions after a miner has reached the age of 60 a'n d has worked for 20 years in the indus ti·y, and medical care for the accident victims and the sick of •t~e in?u_stry, including miners' dependents. • In ~ddition, the W elfare Fund span or d th building of ten mo~·ern hospitals in coal areas where in adequ ate or no faci li ties for hospita) care prcvious)y existed. The winning of the industry-financed W elfa re Fund by the coal miners set a pattern that other large unions wer oon to follow. Today a majority of union members in th e nited States are protected by some form of welfare arrangement that provides protection for them over and above the meager al lowances provided by the Federal and state governments. The basic philosophy of the Mi ners' Welfar F und, as expressed by Mr. Lewis, is th at "the cost of caring for the human equity in the coal industry is inherentl y a vali d as the cost of replacement of mining m a chinery, or the cost of paying taxes, or the cost of pay ing interes t inqebtedness or any qther factor incident to the production of a ton of coal for the consumers' bins." 1947: Taft-Hartley Passed The year 194 7 •brougnt the passage by the 80 th Congress of the Labor-Management Relations Act of 194-7, the so-called Taft-Hartley Act, which Mr. Lewis called "t!t e first 11glJ1, sa vage thrust of fascism in Amedca." Bitterly opposed by organized labor, the law, however, has remained on the books a nd its repeal is a goal of all unions in the United States. Th e Miners' Union has b~en in the forefront of opposition to the sta tute a nd to this day Mr. Lewis has refused to compromise his position of demanding outright repeal of the law. Provisions of this law and of a similar law that preceded it led to the fining of the UMW A for contempt of court on two occasions for refusal of the members to obey injunctions to return to work. The men were striking in protest over unfavorable working conditions and felt that that was a basic right in America. The two fines of $710,000 and $1,4-20,000 were the largest ever assessed by the American courts. Despite the fines and the legal actions taken against the Union under the Taft-Hartley law, the UMWA was able to win still MR: LEWIS NEGOTIATED A CONTRACT WITH FROM J't43 THROUGH 1q45; THE MINERS WORl<ED NINE HOURS A DAY, SIX AND SOMETIMES· SEVEN DAYS A WEEK,,,, THE GOVERNMENT CALLING FOR PAYMENT OF A 5"-CENT-A-TON ROYALTY 6'( THE INDUSTRY FOR THI: WELFARE MEDICAL CARI: TO SUPPLY COAL TO THE AMERICAN MILITARY MACHINE ANO TO AMERICA'S AL IF~ . FUND. , �THE CAPTAIN OF A MIGHTY HOST. T E UMWA MADE STRONG APPEALS To THE FEDERAL CONGRESS 1t) ENACT SAFTY ENFORCEMENT LEGISLATION IN EFFORT it> PREVENT ·METHANE THIS LAW Now· AUTHORIZES FEDERAL MINE INSPECTORS To ORDER THE CLOSING OF 'HAZARDOUS MINES. And .the men of the coal industry are confident in their own fu rther improvements for the coal miners in contracts negotiated ability to fight for a better way of life and in the leadership of after the war. . Bu t th ma tter that continued to be of most vital concern . their president, John L. Lewis, who has said to them: to the coal miners and their Union was the question of mine ·u1 have never faltered or failed to present the cause safety. , hilc the government was still in control of the industry or plead the case of the mine workers of this country. in 1947 one of the worst disasters in mining his,tory occurred I have pleaded your case from the pulpit and from the a t Centralia Il l. when a. methane gas and coal du.st C.'\.'Plosion publio platform; in joint conference with the operators killed 111 men. T he great number of deaths 'centered public atof this country; before the bar of state· legislatures; in t ntion on the matter, although the history of the industry showed the councils of the President's cabinet; and in the public that on a day-by-day basis nearly 1,000 coal miners had been press of this nation-not in the quavering tones of a killed each year and nf arly 50,000 injured. Once again the feeble mendicant asking alms, but in the thundering UMW A made strong appeals to the Federal Congress to envoice' of the captain of a mighty host, demanding the act aicty enforcement legislation in an effort to prevent such rights to which free men are entitled." di~asters. D espite the appeals the Congress failed to act at that tune. It was not until anoth·e r such disaster occurred on Pecem.A New Miner-Illustrator, J. O. Asbury ber 21 , 1951, at another Illinois mine at West Frankfort, that the Congre s fin ally acted. In this West Frankfort disaster 119 coal miners lost- their lives while working underground on the last shift before Christmas. Once again methane gas and coal dust explosions were responsible for the slaughter. And once again investigations proved that the disaster could have been prevented if the coal operators had used . proper ventilation and other safety measures. The ·UMWA had failed in its long efforts to get the individual mining states to pass adequate safety laws to prevent such accidents. But the Union finally, despite much opposition from reactionary segments of the coal industry, was able to get .a bandatory safety law p'assed by th~ Federal Congress. This law now authorizes Federal coal° mine inspectors to order the closing of hazardous mines in which 15 or more men are employed, such as those at Centralia and ,¥est Frankfort, . ' and provides punishment for coal operators who refuse to abide by the regulations. The Union feels that the law should substantially aid in reducing the death and accident rate in the coal industry. • In the . hope that the action would spur unity in the labor JAMES OTIS .ASBURY-A SS..yenr-old member of UMWA movement and heal--the breach that had existed since 1935 between the AFL and CIO, the UMWA returned to the AFL in . Local U11ion' 6023, Havaco, W. Va., Is the artist who drew the 1946. But refusal of the AFL to conduct an all-out fight against'_ illustrations for the preceding "Brief History of the United lllinc 'the Taft-Hartley law in 1947 led to the withdrawal of the Min- Worlce1·s of A111erica." Asbury lost a Jeg after being struck by n ers' 'Union -from the Federation in that year. Since that time hit-and-run driver nlmost five years ago, and Jo the process of the UMWA-has not been affiliated with either the AFL or CIO. vocational rehabllltatlon by the UMWA }Velfaro nod Retirement There are signs of some economic readjustments to be made Fund and the State of West VkgtDla was sent to New York Olty in America in the next few years, but the leadership of the to a.rt schooL Now b~k. at work In the mines as mecbanlc, Minei:s• Union f01;esees a prosperous luture for the coal indu~try Asbury hopes to make nrt his career noel bas sold drawings to with stepped-up production, increasing efficiencies and safer the lVes·t Virginia Department of Conservation and the UM\\· working conditions. Journal. • t> ' �- 40 an, tht Mor Without ::.::··.::-:·: .:·;::-"•::::~ t,,::<'~ UJ la}. of . ' , .. ' :, ha th m le: Ill d, w g, • SC tl n 1 s C £ t l l •j ~=..... / i,:~~;~~~ HOLMES AWARD WINNERS-Here are pictures of more Ul\lWA members who won awards recently from the Joseph A. Holmes Safety Association. They all have worked In the coal fnd05try for 40 or more years without a. lost time accident. In the top row (left to right) are William Bean, Local 2174, Rock Springs, Wyo.; Frank Bittance, Local Union 2828, Superior, Wyo.; An~L Behring, -Local-Union 8078, Stansbury, Wyo., and John Lee Local Union 2335 Hanna, Wyo. In the middle row (left to rlg~t) are Thomai:_~~~!:...lW.Jler, Local Union 2328, Superior, Wyo.; Thomas Hudson Smith, Local Union 2174, Rock Springs, Wyo.; Pet.er Staklch, Local Union 8078, Stansbury, Wyo., and Joe Vesco, Local Union 2328, Superior, Wyo. In the bottom row (left to -right) are Haydn Fulton Williams, Local Union 2174, Rock Springs, Wyo.; Fred Schrock, to·cal Union 2246, l\farsteller, Pa.; Oscar Wingo, Local Union 5829, Praco, Ala.., and L. L. Chance, Local Union fi829, Praco, Ala. The first nine men pictured work for the Union Pacific Coal Co. Schrock is retired. Wingo and Chance work for the AlabllDla By-Products Corp. �ourna Plll{E! I THE CIT A TION-This is n. reproduction of the citation 1>resen ted by the American Na,, tlona.I R etl Oross to President John L . Lewis, the UMWA and the 01\IWA Welfare and Retirement Fuml on June 25. Work And ti>lay MERRY POINT, Va. (PAI) -He's not growing wealthy, but a man of Litwalton, near here, has a rare job where he can com):>ine business with pleasure. . He operates a ferry from Merry Point to Ottoman, across the Corotoman River. While the gasoline engine pushes the two-car ferry along, he trolls for fish. • CHARLES R. LUCAS - of Washington, Ind., is a. veteran of the coal mining industry, an old-time member of the Ul\lWA nnd n. ·pensioner of the UMWA Welfare and Retirement Fund. Luca.s has written the Journal: "The Lord and John L. lewis and the rood people of t.he earth have given us old mlnera n. way to live and get medJcal 1 ar " ·Soft Coal Output To Reach 506 Million Tons In 1957~ 'National Coal--Ass'n Says The production of bituminous coal .in 1957 will exceed last year's output, despite a softening of •industrial production,· and after allowing for a slowing down in some of coal's important markets, the Committee on Coal Economics of the National Coal Association reports. Looking I:1eyond the end of 1957, the committee in its regular quarterly forecast also predicted a further gradual rise in production in the 12 months ending June 30, 1958. Output'in calendar year 1957 is estimated at 506 million tons, and for the 12 hlbnths ending June 30, 1958, is estimated at 510 million tons. Th~se compare with 1956 production of 500 million tons. Broken down by industry groups· the estimates ·in millions of tons are as follows: • Calendar 1957 1956 Official 155.018 Electric Utilities - - ----,--- 165,0 Coking coal _ __ _ _ _ _ _ 107.0 105.830 5.100 · Steei & rolling rnllls 5.2 , Cement mills .. 10.0 9.224 Railway fuel ____ ., 8.5 12.308 95.650 Other industrials 95.0 • 49.125 Retail dealers 41.0 432.764 . Total U. S. 431.7 , 20.632 Canada 21.0 47.892 Overseas exports 53.0 500.0 . Production · _,.,_... 506.0 A Cool $64,000 The "~64,000 Question" and similar fabulous giveaway shows have served to dramatize' the huge tax bite taken by Uncle Sam-and triggered a lot of . financial figuring by those so inclined. One calculator has it figured that a person \vith an income of $4,000 a year \vould have to win a cool $448,711 to take home $64,000 from a quiz program. The government would take $384,711 in ta..'Xes. Anticipated 1957 production would compare· even more favorably with 1956, the committee said, except that last year was one of active stockpiling by coal's customers, to the extent of sl!>me ten million tons. • • Illinois Has New Compensation Law District 12 President Hugh White has reported to the Journal that a new compensation law bas been passed by the _Illinois legislature calling for unemployment benefits ranging from $30 a week for single persons to $45 -a week for persons with four or more dependent children. 'rhe former range was $28 to $40 a week. White ls a member of the Governor's Advisory Board on Unemployment Benefits. The UMWA actively supported the new oill in the form in which it was enacted. I - ~• --- 50 'f'EARS OF l'\IARRIAGE -were celobrotcd recently b:v lflr. a11d lflrs. J. P. Wiley of Centro.Ila, DI. Wiley, 72, ls n retired coal miner, a membt'r of UM.WA Local Un_ion 52, and has lived at Centralln. for 4 7 years. Mr. and l\In. WUey ha.ve three chll~n. ee,·en grnndchlldren and four gl't'ntgrnndchlldren. nN.a rntnf..l.Jen._ nrr Tn nnn �august lo, 19a, DISTRICT 22 CONVENTION-Delegates, guest·s and friends are shown in this picture tu.ken at the convention of Ul\I\VA District 22 which was held at the Newhouse Hotel, Salt Lake City, Utah. District President J. E. Brinley presicled :rncl rousing speeches were delivered by guest orators Henry Allai and John Kmetz. •Allui is Intemationul Bon.rd Illember for Dlstrict 14 and Kmetz is International Bou.rd Member for District 1. Reports were given by District 22 officiais including International Board :l\lember l\,lalio Pecorelli, Secreta.ry-Troasu.rer Arthur Biggs, Vice President Frank Sacco, and Edward Sheya, attorney for the District. Other guest spealcers were: Donald McFarland, supervisor of the Pensions Department of the UMWA Welfare and Retirement Fund; Dr. William A. Dorsey, Welfare Fund area medical supervisor in Denver, Col9., and l\llss Acla Kruger of the Denver Welfare Fund Office. That One Vote NEW BUFFALO, Mi-ch. {PAI) - Who says -one vote doesn't count! Frank A. Castelluccino, 23, a law student, knows that it does. Castelluccino received an absentee ballot for the ·Michigan spring elections and saw that no one was running in his township as highway commissioner. The University of Detroit freshman decided to write in his own name. His one vote-the only one cast for the job -stood up. He's - now New Buffalo's new highway commissioner. A leading utility executive who anticipates some "gradual" loss by the .coal :industry to nuclear fuel , has said he believes "on balance, even the atomic energy scales will be tipped in favor of coal for at least 10 to ..:., 20 year~-" Utilities Burn 12.6 Million Tons Of Coal In May: Highest Consumption On Record Coal consumption by electric utility power pl~ts was 12,599,829 tons in May, the highest May coal consumption on record and an increase of 4.6 percent over the -12,048,573 tons consumed in May, 1956. This is according to the latest statistics from the Federal Power Commission. The May, 1957, total · was .8 percent above ·the 12,496,533 tons consumed in Apdl. Twelve months consumption of ·coal by the utilities totaled 160,377,105, an increase of _3.9 percent as compared with totals for the 12 months ending May, 1956·. • The indicated May rate for combustion of coal was .92 pounds per kilowatt hour compared with .93 pounds a year earlier. Coal stocks on hand at electric utility power plants on· June .1 tptaled 48,558,395 tons, 12 percent above the 43,056,275 tons in stock a year earlier and 4.1 percent above the 46,659,620 tons in stock at the beginning of the previous month. In terms of days' supply, based on the rate of consumption for May, there were sufficient stocks of coal on hand on June 1 to last 119 days as comp~red with 112 days a mol)th before and 111 days a year ~arlier. . . • • Fuel oil consumption· by the electric .utilities increased -41.3 percent in May, -1957;- a_,; . compax:cd with May, 1956: The May consumption of fuel' oil was 2.5 percent below that for April, 1957. • Consump~ion of gas dropped 1.7 percent during May, 1957, as compared W1th May, 1956. May, 1957, gas use was 10 percent above that of April . It's A Rarity Bn 'iiexas Lumps of anthracite were in demand with -a contingent of Texans at the recent Valley Foi:ge, Pa., national jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America. Swaps of just about every character were a favored passt i m e-and . opportunity for making n e ~~ friends...:._arnong the thousands of Scouts who represented many couhtries be: sides the U.S. Frank Walsh, Scranton Times correspondent, reported anthracite lumps were traded for horned toads in a deal between some Pennsylvania Scouts and the Texas boys. During . the 18 months between October, 1954, and March, 1956, electric utility companies burned· more than 218 million tons of coal for power a tonnage equal to nearly haif of 1955's total bit_uJ?linous production of 470 m1lhon tons. �Au~st 15, 1957 ' United Mine Workers Journal I Screenings 'ii'ranquilizer Modern fa milies don't worry about the wolf any m or e. They just: feed him in installments.- S urvey Bu lletin. Some Fact~ About ~if~ Missing Wealthy people miss one of life's greatest thrills-paying the last installment. -Sunshine Maga zine. All women are convinced:. That they weigh too much. That they are busier than anybody in the CoouDill'ioned R.eflex This Can Lead To Socialism? whole world.. • A Marine officer and his family were· on Khruschchev thinks our grandchildren a bus in San Francisco, en route home to That nobody realizes how hard they work. Minnea polis. H e was reading a newspaper. That nobody else's house gets as messed- will be socialists. He is. smart to skip our ~hildren who, judging by the way they up as theirs. • . His wife was tending the baby and their r owdy small son was cavorting in the aisle. That their husbands and children are not pursue their fees for grass-cutting. dishwashing and baby-sitting, are unshakeco-operative. Just then a n earthquake hit. . / able capitalists. -Portland Oregonian That men are impractical. •.· . Without even J9oking up from his paper, the Marine yelled a t the kid, "All right, · That they do not "have · enough clothes. That men are not interested 'in anything Mariners Count you, cut t ha t out !" important. . - Minneapo{is Tribune. A small girl developed a disconcerting That thsir houses need re-decorating. . habit of running into the neighbors' houses That tliey , do not get· -th'e consideration unannounced. The other day a neighbor f.12lo wel/' 01 'ii'hought they deserve. asked her, "Suzanne, why don't you knock Art Linkletter was interviewing some or ring the doorbell instead of just walkkindergarten children on hi.s show one All men are convinced: ing in?" after noon. That nobody realizes how hard they work. "Do you like school?" he asked one. "Because,'' explained Suzanne patiently, That nobody's wife is as fussy a house"Yes," said the tot. "Except when we're "my mommy told ~e not to go around keeper as their;;. ringing people'.s doorbells." naughty and get sent to the thinking That women talk too much. ta ble." That women are extravagant. "Oh," said Linkletter, "a,nd what do you That this year's fashions are the craFest Promotion think about at the thinking table?" yet. Head of the White House Secret Serivce "We think," was the answer, "about not That they know the one spot in the whole detail in F.D.R. days, Mike Reilly, tells hitting anyone." , . country where the fish bite best. of Secret Service man Tommy Callaghan I That women are not interested in anything calling on top boss Frank Wilson to ask Escapist important. for a raise. "Why do you think you deA young man who complained of his That nobody realizes how much they have serve a raise?" asked Wilson. "From dreams was being reassured by his psyon their minds. • what I hear you spend most of your time chiatrist. 'That t hey do not get the consideration in Chicago in third class saloons." Re"Stop worrying, son," the- doctor conthey deserve. • plied Callaghan, "That's just it. I need a soled, "it's perfectly normal for a fellow That women bave no sense· of humor. raise so I can spend more time in first class like you to dream he is being pursued saloons."-Eagle. • by beautiful girls. There's nothing wrong All children are convinced: in dreaming that lovely girls are chasing That their parents are stricter than anySmall Comfort you." , body else's. From the New Yorker, which eve!ly sum"But doctor," the youth moaned uncon- That everyone gets a bigger allowance mer swears off after printing a couple of soledly, "I keep getting away." than they do. "camp classics,'' comes ·t his story of an That everybody else gets to stay up later 11-year-old girl's first written report· to We Nominate For So~ething thEl.n they do. the home folks. Seems her parents had The woman who drives 9 miles to save Tqat they don't get as good report cards 29 cents on groceries, and stops enroute to as they deserve because the teacher has been after her for some time to behave less like a tombo)' and more like a proper it in for them. • purchase 69 cents worth of ice cream cones for the kids; the man who plays golf to That nobody else has .to do as many chores young lady. "Dear Mummy and Daddy," she \'\>Tote, as they do. keep thin but hires a boy to mow the lawn; "your worries are over. I am really growthe wife who scrimped for years to buy That their parents are ·very old-fashioned. ccirpeting for the living room a_n d now That they will someday be rich and fa- ing up. I am in a tent with older girls and all we talk about is boys and stuff. mous. won't let · anyone ·walk on it; the husbanql who lies awake all hours of the night but That· grownups are not interested in any- Love, Linda. "P.S. Please send me some more jacks snores all through the preacher's sermon thing U"llPOrtant. --Jane Goodsell, PAI. and a water pistol." on Sunday.-The Furrow Praise Inflation "How did you do at school today, dear?" asked the little ' lad's mother: "All right, I guess," was the answer. "Teacher said I was a regular little beaver." "She did?" exclaimed the parent proudly. "That goes to show what a hard-worker you are!" Joe E. Lewis was bemoaning the high cost of living. "Do you 'realize," he told a pal, "it's gone up another $1 a quart? 0 "We-1-1, not exactly,'' said the boy. "It was really for chew- illn 11 1nnnll Officials at the big Whamclitre colliery at Barnesley, England, have agreed to start the work day one hour earlier so that mine workers can get home in time to ha,·e a _glass of beer, watch television and see their children before they �Page 24 United Mine Workers Journal By Margaret Moran August 15, 1957 Simple Sea~onings Fresh green vegetables· need Give Vegetables A LJft not take! on a wasfied-out look when cooked properly. If they Bit:; of crumbled, crisp bacon are ·cooked until' tender but or salt pot k, or a Uttle left-over still slightly crisp, and cooked ham, make a nice .addition under cover, they can lookto cooked -vegetables. Fin e and taste-good enough to chopped onion or onion juice bring calls for second helpings. adds a peppy touch.· • For boiling, use lightly salted Try a ' dash· o{ Chinese soy water-~{! teaspoon salt ana ½ sauce 011 chard, spinach, or to one cup water, depending broccoli. A tablespoon or t wo on cooking time. Bring the of green pepper or parsley does water to a boil before adding wonders for snap beans or the vegetable.. After adding summer squash. Cook a few the vegetable, cover the pan. mint leaves with peas. Try a When the water boils again, pinch of herbs or spice in the reduce heat. Some green vegwater when cooking .lima beans. etables, such as shredded cabA little vinegar and sugat' bage or - spinach leaves, may heated together, with or withrequire as little as three minout a few_tablespoons of cream, utes to cook tender. Green is a popular dressing for snap Hrna beans may take 20 to -30 beans or cabbage. • Try a dash minutes, snap beans i5 to 30 of nutmeg in cream sauce for minutes. 64 I ~P_} .t,:--:}, vegetables. When boiling leafy greens, "Let's see, now ; what'll I have?" such as spinach . and beet ~oint· up flavor of cooked greens, the water clinging to v.egetables by seasoning with the leaves after washing them flavorful fats-bacon drippings, may be all the water needed in cooking. Cor·!t Clwwde,· table. fats, or salad oil with lemon juice,. Put the greens into the pan, adding salt horseradish or a whisper of garlic. in layers throughout. Reduce heat after ~f you ~se b,acon drippings, add b\tS of Two slices bacon, diced, ¼ cup-chopped steam begins to escape and cook slowly to onion, 2 cups fresh corn cut off cob, 2 cups crisply fried bacon. These are especially prevent sticking. • boiling water, 1 quart milk, 1 ½ cups good with spinach ·or other greens. Serve the' vegetables promptly. Flavor mashed potatoes, 1 tablespoon salt; ½ teaBut go easy. with these seasonings. Their will suffer when they are allowed to stand. spoon whole marjoram leaves, •crumbled, pungency easily overshadows the delicate . ¼ teaspoon ground pepper, 8 saltine crack- flavors of vegetables. ers. Batter·-Coated Squash Rings Fry bacon until crisp. Remove and add Baked Summer Squash onion. Saute until limp. Add corn and One pound summer squash, 1 cup panwater. Cook for 10 mµiutes. Stir in milk, ' Six small summer. squashes, .boiling cake flour, 1 cup milk, fat for frying. water, ½ teaspoon minced parsley, Wash squash and cut in ¼ inch slices. potatoes and seasonings. Heat. Crumble salted teaspoon salt, ;i cup grated' Parmesan Mix pancake flour and milk in a small a cracker in each bowl . and pour in soup. ½ cheese, 1 cup cream cheese, 1 green onion bowl, beat until smooth with rotary beater. Garnish with crumbled bacon. minced, 1 tablespoon heavy cream, ¾ tea~ Melt fat 1-inch deep in heavy fry pah. Casserole Of Vegetables spoon pepper, dash of paprika, grated ParDip sq41sh_slices into batter and fry in mesan cheese, milk. hot fat, a few at · a time, until golden One cup diced potatoes, 1 cup· diced Cook the whole squashes in boiling brown, about 3 minutes. Drain on brown celery, 1 cup green peas, 1 cup lima beans, salted water. Drain. Scoop out the cenpaper, sprinkle with salt and keep in· slow 1 medium onion, chopped, ¼ cup rice, 1 oven until ready to serve. Yield: 6 serv- cup cooked tomatoes, 1 teaspoon salt, ¼ ters, leaving a substanti.a l wall. Mix the scooped out pulp .with parsley, salt, ¼ ings. teaspoon pepper, 4 bou_illon cubes, 2 cups • cu;> grated Parmesan cheese, cream cheese, boiling water, 1 to 2 tablespoons butter or omon, cream, pepper and paprika. Sprinkle Scalloped Green Vegetables substitute. , • with grated Parmesan_cheese and refill the Dissolve the bouillon cubes in the boiling shells. . Place in · a' well greased shailow Start with any cooked vegetable. Try water and combine with rest of ingredients baking pan, pour in the milk and. bake two or more together. Asparagus with except butter. Turn into a greased cas- in a moderate oven about 20 minutes. cabbage-snap beans with ~ut-up broccoli . serole, dot with butter, cover and bake -lima beans with one of the green leafy in . a slow oven about 2 hours · or until the (;auliflower. W(th ·cheese Sauce vegetables-are three of many good com- vegetables are tender. I . binations. One medium head cauli:flower,1 ¼ cup Two cups drained cooked green veg- Cucumber In Sour Cream butter or substitute, 1/.1 cup flour, 1 teaetables, 1 to 1 ½ cups medium white sauce, spoon salt, 1 teaspoon. dry mustard, 2 cups salt to taste, pinch of dry herbs, ¼ cup With Fresh Dill : milk, F cup grated American cheese, 1 dry bread or cracker c~bs, 1 tablespoon cup soft bread crumbs, 2 tablespoons butter or substitute. Two cucumbers, about 8 inches long, 1 . melted butter. Combine vegetable sauce and seasonings cup thinly sliced onion rings, ¼ cup sour Remove leaves and stalk from cauliin a . greased baking dish. Mix crumbs cream, 1 tablespoon yinegar, 1 tablespoon flower. Separate into flowerets. Rinse in with the butter and sprinkle over the water, ½ teaspoon salt, ¼ teaspoon ground cold. running watf:!r. Boil uncovered in vegetable mixture. Bake in a moderate white pepper, 2 tablespoons fresh dill, large kettle of boiling, salted water about oven until sauce is bubbling and the top- finely chopped, two hard-cooked eggs, 10 minutes, or until tender. Drain. Melt ping slightly browned, about 30_·minutes. sliced. . butter, blend in flour, salt and mustard, For variety: Put the vegetable and Wash cucumbers, wipe dry and score gradu~y add milk. Cook over boiling sauce into the dish in separate layers, down the sides with · a fork. Slice thin water, stirring constantly until thickened. with a sprinkling of grated cheese or :finely and combine with onion rings, sour cream, Blend in cheese. Ar.range cauliflower in chopped onion or parsley or cooked mush- vinegar, water, salt, ground white pepper individual baking dlshes. Cover with rooms between layers. Use ½ cup smrul and dill. Toss lightly. Turn into serving sauce. Toss crumbs with melteg butter. Garnish with hard-cooked egg Sprinkle on cauliflower. Bake in a hot bread cube;; in place __ of the. crumbs, and bowl. w15° . -----...- � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Union Pacific Collection Description An account of the resource This collection is made possible in part by a generous grant from Wyoming Humanities. 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THOMAS KENNEDY, Vice President United Mine Workers' Building Washington 5, D. C. INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVE BOARD l\IEI\IBERS DISTRICT PRESIDENT JOHN OWENS, .Secretary-Treashrer United Mine Worlcers' Buildi 1g Washington 5, D. C. DISTRICT / SECRETARY-TI~EASUR~it d' District L - JOHN KMETZ, 165 S. Franklin St., AUGUST J . . LIPPI, 165 S. Franklin - DAVID CUMMINGS, 165 S. '?rank-· · _ _ _ _ __ Wilkes-Barre, Pa_ • Jin St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. j .. , St., Wilkes-Barre, Pc<..."'- -·_ __ District 2___,_ ,JOHN GHIZZONI, 521 W. Horner JOHN GHIZZONI, 521 W. Horner EDWARD SWEENEY, 521 WI. HorSt.. Ebensburg, Pa _ _ _ _ __ St .. Ebensburg, Pa. _ _ __ __ ner St.. Ebensburg, Pa. f District 3_ _ EWING WATT, 106 W. Otterman St., EWING WATT, 106 W. Otterman St., EWING WATT, 106 W. Ottei man St., Pa__,, _ _ • _ _ _ _ _ Greensburg, .., Greensburg, Pa. Greensburg, Pa: _ _ _ _ _ __ District 4...,___ WILLIAM HYNES, Gallatin Natl. WILLIAM HYNES, Gallatin Natl. MICHAEL HONUS, GaHatin Natl., Bank Bldg., Uniontown ; Pa. Bank Bldg., Uniontown, Pa ...... _......... Bank Bldg., Uniontown, Pa ......- .....:... District 5---· ,TOSEPH YABLONSKI, Clarksville, JOSEPH YABLONSKI, 938 Penn JOHN SEDDON, 938 .~Penn Ave.,: Pittsburgh 22, Pa. Ave., Pittsburgh 22, Pa. _ _ __ Pa.-- - - - - - - - - - District s__ _ PETER PHILLIPPI, Box 194, Cadiz, ADOLPH PACIFICO, Room 702, 85 RONALD C. OWENS, Room 702, 85 E . Gay St., Colu1J1bus, Ohio Ohio • E. Gay St., Columbus, 0hio.....- ....·-·District 7--· MARTIN F. · BRENNAN, 204 United MARTIN F. BRENNAN, ''204 United CORNELIUS O'DONNELL. 200 United Mine Workers' Bldg., HazleMine Workers' Bldg., Hazleton, Pa. Mine Workers' Bldg., Hazleton, Pa. 0 ton, Pa. District g__ \VILBERT KILLION, Brazil, Ind...... ELIAS DAYHUFF, Coal City, Ind..._ . ARTHUR LINTON, Route 5, Brazil, Ind. District 9_ ___ .TOHN J. MATES, 125 Tunnel St., JOSEPH KERSHETSKY, 508 Dime JOSEPH KERSHETSKY, 508 Dime Trust and Safe Deposit Co. Bldg., Trust and Safe Deposit Co. Bldg., Williamstown, .Pa.-"-----Shamokin, Pa. _ _ _ _ __ _ · Shamokin, Pa. •District 10-- SAM NICHOLLS, Box 299, Renton, SAM NICHOLLS, Box 299, Renton, SAM NICHOLLS, Box 299, Ren ton, Wash. Wash. · -------Wash. - - District u___ LOUIS AU,STIN, 2504 N. 13th Street, ERNEST GOAD, 301 N. Eighth St., RALPH DAY, 301 N. Eighth St., Terre Haute, Inn...__ _ _ _ __ Terre Haute, Ind. _ _ _ _ _ __ Terre Haute, Ind. District 12__ JOSEPH SHANNON, 212 S. 18th St., HUGH WHITE, United Mine Work- EDWARD GIBBONS, United Mine ers' Bldg., Springfield, Ill. _ __ Wo~kers' Bldg., Springfield, Ill. Herrin, Ill. District 13_ _ JOHN A. HUFTON, United Mine JOHN A. HUFTON, United Mine JOHN A. HUFTON, United Mine Workers' Bldg.. Albia, Iowa Workers' Bldg., Albia, Iowa ----·----· Workers' Bldg., Albia, Iowa-· -- -· District 14-..... HENRY ALLAI, Box 436, 317 Profes- HENRY ALLA!, Box 436,317 Profes- HENRY ALLAI, Box 436, 317 Pro, sional B_ldg., Pittsburg, Kans ............... _sional Bldg., Pittsburg, ·Kans. ___ ..... fessional Bldg., Pittsburg, Kans. District 15_. FRANK · HEFFERLY, 210 Wilda FRANK HEFFERLY, 210 Wilda FRED HEFFERLY, 210 Wilda Bldg Bldg., 1441 Welton Street; Denver Bldg., 1441 Welton Street, Denver 1441 Welton Street, Denver 2, Colo'. 2. Colo. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ 2, Colo. District 16. JOHN L. MAYO, 35 Clark-Keating JOHN L. MAYO, 35 Clark-Keating "JOHN L. MAYO, 35 Clark-Keating Bldg., Cumberland, Md. _ _ __ Bldg., Cumberland, Md. Bldg., Cumberland, Md. • District 17~. R. 0. LEWIS, Box 1313, Charleston, R. 0. LEWIS, Box 1313, Charleston, R. R. HUMPHREYS, Box 1313, Charleston, W. Va. W. Va. - - - - - - - - - W. ,Va. - - - - - - - - - District 18__ EDWARD BOYD, 102-103 P. Burns EDW ARD BOYD, 102-103 P. Burns WILLlAl\1 URE, 102-103 P . Burns Bldg., Calgary, Alberta, Canada........ Bldg., Calgary, Alberta, Canada........ Bldg., Calgary, Alberta, Canada. District 19__ JAMES W. RIDINGS, Box 521, Mid- JAlvIES W. RIDINGS, Box 521, Mid- ALBERT PASS, United Mine Workdlesboro, Ky. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ dlesboro, Ky. ers' Bldg., 210 N. 20th St., Middlesboro, Ky. District 20 __ WILLIAM MITCH, 517-522 Comer WILLIAM MITCH, 517-522 Comer Bldg., Birmingham, Ala. _ _ __ Bldg., Birmingham, Ala. _ _ __ District 2L- DAVID FOWLER, 415 Metropolitan DAVID F0\1/LER, 415 Metropolitan GEORqE GRIFFITHS, JR., 415 MetBldg., Muskogee, Okla. _ _ __ Bldg., Muskogee. Okla. ' ropohtan Bldg., Muskogee Okla District 22 __ MALIO PECORELLI, 428 Railroad HARRY MANGUS, Room 20, Oliveto Ave., Helper, Uta'h...,_______ Office Bldg., 23 So. Carbon St., ARTHUR BIGGS, 318-19, N~rth Slde · State Ba!1k Bldg., P.O. Box 920 Price, Utah · Rock Sprmgs, Wyo. ' District 23__ ED J. MORGAN, Madisonville, Ky, __ ED J. MORGAN, Madisonville, Ky...,.. JESS _LOVELACE, Box ·552 Madisonville, Ky. • ' District 26__ JOHN H. DELANEY, 340 King Ed- WILLIAM · MARSH, Commercial ward St., Glace Bay, N. S., Canada Bldg., Glace Bay, N. S., Canada -·-· MICHA:EL HIGGINS, Box 45, Commercial Bldg., Glace Bay N S Canada ' • ·1 District 'Z1--· W. A. BOYLE, Box 1257, Billings, R. J. BOYLE, Box 1257, Billings, R. J. BOYLE, Box 1257 Billings Mont. • -·====---Mont. District 28__• CARSON HIBBITTS, Box 311, NorMont. ' ' CARSON HIBBITTS, Box 311, Norton, Va. _ _ __ __ _ _ __ CARSON HIBBITTS, Box 311 Norton, Va. - - - - - -- - - District 29....•_ ton, Va. ' GEORGE. J. TITLER, Chilson Ave. GEORGE J. TITLER, Chilson Ave at Raleigh Rd., Box 511, Beckley J. BUNCH, Box 511, Beckley, at Raleigh Rd., Box 511, Beckley; W. Va. _ _ _ _ __ _ __ W. Va. ' District 30-CA~SON HIBBITTS, Box 50, PikeCOMBS, Box 50, Pikevillet ville, Ky,::::=--:-::-:-- : - - - - District 31- CECIL J. URBANIAK, Box 312 Fairmont. W. Va.. ' CEC~ J. URBANIAK'. Box • 312 ' ' L. Fairmont, W. Va. . ~E'!, Bmc- 3~2. _F ~irDistrict 50__ A. D. LEWIS, ·united Mine Workers' A. D. L~WIS,'_{!nited ' M ine Wei-};~ Bldg., Washington 5, D. C......... ... JOHN J . •BADOUD •1435 Bldg., Washmgtcin 5, D; c· - - · .. . . ··--- -...... _, ·washington 5;· n.' c. KSt,,~.W., INTERNATIONAL AUDITORS l~TERNJTIONAL TELLERS . .. .. • ~ E V. WO,ODS, Norton, Va. CL J<;)SEP,H WOODS, _S cranton, Pa. . . • UNIT~D l\lINE WORKERS JOURNAL . ?~§~E l\t· vVl:UTE, West Frankfort, Ill. YDE W. RUNIONS,_Lochgell~,. w .. Va. .. . .. :· JUSTm McCARTHY, Editor . R&"'{ LAUCK; Assistant Editor• · • · • ·· · • 1437 K United Mine Workers Journal m 1 1 W Street, N. W. • • - $~t ~1: . m~£W I ! i l I I l I I' I I /I I I �./ :_ ~ ~fpte~nber 1, 1;5~-- United' Mine workers Journal Page ·3 ' I t-~---------------------=:::..__ :{;/that's 'Up' On 1-he Hi/I ,-..,'·• . . . • talled! @ Failure of Congressional conferees to agree on final session of Congress. It was a slim hope. If a bill is passed it was wordi~g of tl?e Labo>" Strangulation Act of 1959 resulted sure to be a bad one. House of Representatives conferees · are Graham Barden in mov:es by Senate members of the j9int committee to (D.,The N.C.), Phil Landrum (D., Ga.), Carl Perkins (D., Ky.}, Frank take the matter before the full Senate for instructions Thompson, Jr. (D., N.J.), Carroll Kearns (R., Pa.), Robert Grifon August 31, as the Journal went to press. fin (R., Mich.) and William H. Ayres (R., OhioL. • Except for Perkins, from a Kentucky coal area, and ThompAfter nine days o~ meetings, the 14-man conference from industrial New Jersey, the House conferees favored the committe~ reached a deadlock over the language to be son, tough Landrum-Griffin bill. used in three parts of the proposed legislation. The disThe House Rules Committee and the Senate Interior and Inputed sections of the bill deal with so-called secondary sular Affairs Committee were expected to act favorably before boycotts, picketing for organizational purposes and so- Congress adjourns on a concurrent resolution calling for creation called no-man's land labor-management disputes not cov- , of· a National Fuels Policy. The resolution has been introduced in the House by 22 Representatives and co-sponsored ered by either state or Federal law. • individually in the Senate by 41 Senators. House of Representatives conferees, plugging for th!i tough House-passed ~ andru1;1-Griffin bill, were reported to have won Why ihe Anti-Labor Bill Us Sialled The resolution would establish a joint Congressional committee of eight Senators and eight Representatives to "make a full and complete investigation and study . . . of the available fuel reserves of the United States and the present and probable consumption thereof." The joint committee would "formulate proposals for a National Fuels Policy to assure the availability of fuels adequate for an expanding economy and for the security of the United States, taking into account the investment necessary for the maintenance of efficient and adequate fuels and ·necessary related industries and the necessity for maintenance of an adequate force of, skilled workers." The committee would report to Congress its conclusions, including any .recommendations for ·legislative action to effectuate its proposals. • • The disputed proposals that have caused a stalemate between House and Senate conferees considering anti-labor legislation seem, to t he non-legal observer,· essentially to concern the question of Congress' trying to restrict freedom of speech \Vhich is guaranteed to Americans by the Constitution. A so-called secondary boycotf amounts to action by union • members to inform , the general public that a company, not directly involved in a management-labor dispute, is, nevertheless, doing business with the struck firm. An example would Commission Would Report Tw~ce A Year be a department store that advertises in a struck newspaper. . The House was expected to approve, shortly, legislation to creThe striking union would regard the department store as "un- ate a Coal Research and Development Commission. House and fair." Whether Congressional action to restrict such union Senate conferees agreed on August 19 on an amended version of activity is constitutional would have to be decided by the the legisiation. The conference bill, which passed. the Senate, courts. ·, would create a three-member independent agency to carry on reOrganizational picketing involves the action o~ union J?em- search leading to the development of new uses for coal, ·improve bers in refusing to work for a company that declines to sign a existing uses and work toward the reduction in the cost of procontract, claiming that the union does not repre_sent its em- duction and distribution of coal. ployes. Again the Constitutional right of the uruon members Reports of the . commission would be submitted twice a ye~ to inform the public of the company's position is involved, through the Secretary of the Interior to tpe _President and ConThe no-man's land question, to some extent, involves the • gress. The conference bill authorizes up to $2 million fo'i.- the comquestion of interstate commerce and whether sta~e agen~es mission to carry on its work during the first year and such sums should have jurisdiction over management-labor disputes if a as may be necessary, thereafter. • Federal agency declines to intervene. _ . West Virginia Senators and Representatives were backing The first two questions could and probably, would involve Dean G. Ralph Spindler of the· School of Mines of the University the UMWA •and there is a possibility that the no-man's land of West Virginia· to be a member of the commission if it is matter might involve the UMWA also. . created. , • rt would appear-that no matter how the ~ree dispute~ (!,UesHouse action was expected shortly on a ·compromise proposal • tions are resolved they will seriously restrict the traditional to solve the Federal highway financing program. The matter rights and privileges of organized labor. was before the Rules Committee which .was expected to vote the bill out. The proposal called for a 22-month, 1-cent a gallon inabout 90. percent of the arguments in conference. Apparently, • crease in the Federal gasoline tax. If enacted, the financing prohowever, the Senate conferees finally balked on further conces- gram would enable the 41,000-mile, interstate highwa~ I?rogram ~o continue in the neoct fiscal year at a rate of $1.8 billion and m sions. ) h. · :fil d. th 1 t· Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R., Ill. , w o e e reso u 10n 1962 at a rate of $2 billion. Money for the program that does not asking the Senate to instruct its conferees, asked the Se~ate to tell its conferees to accept the House language on the disputed sections. The other Senate Repllblican conferees are Barry Gol~Brief Discourse On Civil Rights Of Peanuts water of Arizona and Winston L. Prouty of Vermont. . . Sen John Kennedy (D., Mass.), conference committee ~h~- • Just how silly legislators ~an get in the August heat in man ~d s okesman for the four Democratic Senators compnsWashington is illustrated by the charge that a New York in the ma]ority for the Senate, was to make a counter propo~al Senator is trying to destroy the civil rights of boiled peanuts and of the Southerners who grow and sell them. tog Dirksen's Kennedy's resolution called for the .Seni:te to m~ The charge was made by Sen .. Olin Johnston {D., S.C.), struc~ its representatives t~ goc~~!e::~=tri:i~~ who presented boiled (ugh!) peanuts to each Senator in the 0 Senate dining room and spoke about the matter on the ~:~\;::r~~!s!~;~~/ Th: ·o.tphetr p~m~~::r~a; ~n:~ge: Senate floor. • are Wayne Morse of Oregon, _a ~1~ • The controversy arose because Sen. Kenneth Keating (R: and Jennings Randolph of West.Yrrguua. h hH N.Y.) tacked a <;ivil rights bill onto a peanut bill as o~~ The Kennedy "compromise" accepted mu~ of t e t?ug amendment. . language on boycotts, picketing and no-man s land _dISp~t~ts u Senator Johnston charged that the Keating amendment added some language designed to protect existing ~o~~j be 'apwas designed to emancipate boiled peanuts from Federal It was expected that Senator Kennedy's propos ~ttee would restrictions but that it would not accomplish that purpose. proved by the Senate and that the conference co th nly hope ~aybe Con ess just ought to give up and go home, ~:.i~:: an �Scpteiµber 1, 1959 United JWine Workers Journal Page 5 ~~my Districts /Plan Rallies -fO©Jy I EDJTOR'S NOTE: Following is the complete text of a Labor Day statement by A. D. Lewis, International Executive Board member and President of _UMWA Distrid 50. d Labor's own holiday this year falls on September· 7 and the UMWA, as usual, will lead.the formal celebration parade on Labor Day. Many Districts have planned rallies and the one set for Pikeville, l{y., will probably draw more than 50,000 persons. District President Carson Hibbitts has announced that District 30 will stage the Pikeville celebration, and that District 28 will hold its annual rally a~ Clintwood, Va. The approach of Labor Day 1959 again finds the nation's ~tilabor forces riding high. The House of Representatives, havmg disposed of the Shelley so-called labor · "reform" bill, which no one W.- A. (Tony) Boyle, Assistant to Preside,rt John L. Lewis and but George Meany wa nted, and having passed in its stead the labor-shackling Landru m-Griffin bill, which · not even George Intemational Board Member, District 27, has beep invited to speak at both events. Th~ speeches will take ·place at Clintwood Meany wanted, has sent it for at 10:45 a.m. and. at Pikeville at 2 p.m. conference with t he Senate, , Entertainment at the Clintwood· rally will feature Merle which previously had passed Travis, author of.the famed coal miner's song, Sixteen Tons, plus another "reform" bill sponsored Jimmie Hetzer's Big State Review, a beauty contest and door by Senator Joh n F . Kennedy prizes. Similar entertainment will be provi_ded at the Pikeville (D., Mass.). • rally, according to Hibbitts. What will emerge is anyMichael F. Widman, Jr., Assistant lo President John L. Lewis body's guess. But, whatever it and Director of the Research and Marketing Department, will is, we can be sure that t he sitbe the principal speaker at a Labor · Day rally in Murphysboro, uation bodes labor no good. The Ill., which is being staged by · the Tri-County Labo.r·Day Associaanti-labor campaign for which tion. This rally is a tradition in Southern Illinois and District the McClellan committee in12, along with other labor organizations in the area, participates vestigations have served as a in the celebration. • . backdrop, has borne lush if bitDistrict 17 Local Untons have completed plans for a Labor ter frui t. Despite the fact t hat Day celebration to be held at the Comfdrt, W. Va., Recreation the commit tee unearthed nothPark at the mouth of Joe's Creek. Miners from Raleigh, Boone, ing against ·1a bor comparable to Logan and ·Kanawha counties will participate in this celebration. r ecent disclosures -of CongresJohn Profan of Local Union 1123, District 17, was made general sional payroll irregularit ies, not • chairman of the program with John Estep, of Local Union 4735, to .mention the sordid "kicka·s vice chairman. The rally will feature an all-star boxing show A. -D. Lewis back" disclosures of 1944-when and musical entertainment presented by the Grand Ole Opry. a page boy's ·m other testified it . George J. · Titler, President of UMWA District 29, announced was not unusual for Members of Congress to make deductions such as had been taken from her ov.'Il son's salary-;-the public has . that a big Labor Day celebration will be staged in Pineville, W. Va. Speakers will be Titler, Roy Lee Harmon, Beckley newspaperbeen duped into believing that racketeering is rife in .the labor man and veteran member of ihe House of Delegates from Ralmovement. eigh County, and Rep. Elizabeth M. Kee CD., W. Va). Both HarAi; a result of the 1944 disclosure's, Reps. J. Parnell Thomas mon and Kee are long-time friends of organized labor and the· (R., N.J.), Andrew J. May _(D., Ky.) and Walter E. Brehm (R., . Ohio) all drew convictions. Thomas was fined $10,000 and sent- UMWA. The Pineville event is being sponsored by the UMWA in coenced to from 6 to' 18 months io prison for collecting "kickbacks" ; May spent 9 months 13 days in jail for accepting $53,000 in "kick- operation with the Pineville high sch?ol band. . !he band _will :backs" from Henry and Murray Garsson, wartime munitions play for the festivities. It is now sellmg advertismg space m a makers; and Brehm drew a $5,000 fine and suspended sentence program for .the event. All program profits will go to the musical organization. . . . on a "kickback" conviction. The annual Labor Day celebration in Northern West Vrrgirua Certainly, for ah the loose allegations that have been made against -union leaders-and it is noteworthy th8:t not one of the1;1 will again •be held in Morgantown. As in the past, District 3.1 and made against Jimmy ·H offa has been proved m . court-:-there 1s District 50 will participate. District 50 members will also celebrate all over the land. The no more reason to assume that the labor movement 1s racket ridden than to assume that Congress is. Indeed, there is far less. biggest rally will be held at Hopewell, Va., long known as a. "D!sYou will undoubtedly, at your Labor Day celebrations, hear trict 50 town." There will be a parade and speech~s by D1stnct these matte~s discussed at length, so it is un~ecessary for me to 50 Vice President Elwood Moffett and Seth Brewer of the Fedburden you with details . here. But I should like to call your at- er~} Mediation and Conciliation Service. New York City, the birthplace of the first Labor Day parade tention to a very important statement made by Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, when he app~ared, Au~ust 10, on the Mutual network to ask support for a -mild labor bill. Speaker Rayburn warned that "powerl'ul interests" are backMake Labor Day A Safe Holiday! ing the drastic Lan?rum-Griffin_bill, and :ic~used them of attemptThe primary aim of every UMWA member who uses a ing to use this bill to cripple decent umomsm_ and alter the balcar on Labor Day weekend should be to stay alive. That is ance of power between management and labor. Mr. Rayburn, the gist of a message to coal miners from Charles Ferguson, remember, is• a Texas Democrat, a~d can hardly be regarded director, UJlfJV A Safety Division, who is spearheading oras an "extremist." Consequently, his words •are all the more ganized labor's campaign against slaughter on the nation's worthy of heed. . highways. The success of the vast anti-labor campaign that has acThe ·National Safety Council predicts that 400 persons companied the klieg-light hearings on Capitol Hill at~ests the · will die in traffic accidents during the three-day weekend power of the ." interests" mentioned by Mr. Raybu~. It is hardly September 5-7. Ferguson, who is chairman of the to their credit, but they are-even n?w-b_oast':11g that they Council's Labor Section and past chairman of the Coal never could have· passed the Landrum-Griffin bill Without the_ perMining Section, says: "Accidents ?V~r the Labor Day h~li'sonal intervention of President Eisenhow~r; and that the President day are a tenible waste of th~ ~at1on s manpowE:r. An;e:1ca never would have spoken on the air in support of that meas~re is not just a body of land-it IS people. To kill or l.l'lJUte had not Robert F. Kennedy, brother of the Senator, and chief wo •kers is to_rob this _co!!ninr .of jt_s mo~t yit!!Lre§_O).Jrce." �. ./' September 1, 195 9 United iv.line Workers J ottrnal A DJ /L~wis: Labor Day Stah~wu~ni ,..-:->. in the United States in 1882, ,will be the scene of a _revived Labor • • (Continued from Page 5) , Day parade this year. More tban 100,000 union members are 1:ess demanding labor reform. It . is ·expected to march in solid ranks up famous Fifth Avenue. The show for letters to C-~ngthe committee's title-Le., The Select parade will start at 26th Street and Fifth Avenue in the garment note~'.~rthy th~t,. d~sp~: Actions in the Labor or Management district, and end at 65th Street beyond St, Patrick's Cathedral Committee on !mpi 0~ ory revelations against ma nagement made and Will be reviewed by prominent officials fi:om a stand in front Field-and despi~e tuns~; has displayed no interest in management 1 of the New York Library at 42nd Street. Many Labor Day statements have been issued. One of the best before the corruru~ eet 1·m from the outset has been to pave the "reform." · Its ~ad ~n ti~ labor-shackling legislation, and t hat purwas sent to American workers by Hans Gottfurcht, assistant way for furthe1 ias h' ved ears to have ac 1e • general secretary of the International Confederation of Free Trade pose rt now ap~here is something -degrading in t_h e spectacle of a Unions. He wrote: Yet, t? us, ittee's general counsel stooping to an a ppear. "On the occasion of. Labor Day, 1959, it gives me great pleasCongressional cdommrate comedy show in behalf of a par t isan political ~ agaln to send the warmest greetings of the ICFTU to our onAft a secon d" ·ty • •• htl t b ance • North American affiliated organizations and to all the workers of 1ssue. · er aJI , a certain amount of 1gm 1s 1 ig Y o e exthe United States and Canada. In doing so I am sure that I of Congi:u·cels1s.the J"udgment ·of t~e American people may have voice the feelings of trade unionists of the whole free wodd, pecHted owever m the recent campaign - - agamst • Ia bor, and 1t - can who ·see in the powerful North American labor movement the b d by t t " t· d swaye 1 vanguard of the workers' struggle for ever higher standards of t een . thf II be said that the "powerfu m eres s, men 10ne by Iu u YRayburn, "pulled out all s t ops " m • the·n. campa -ign to living. Speaker "We of the !CFTU share ,vith you your continuing concern discredit and thus weaken, the Amencan labo~ movemert, the about the economic outlook and the failure of governments in their reai thr~at to the American system of government co_m es, not from duty to maintain full employment. We all know t hat prosperity, "big labor," but from immensely wealthy corporat1~ns, man~ of like peace, is indivisible, and that the recent recession, starting in them with interlocking dlrectotates. It has been said tha t: All tbe United States, had world-wide re_percussions and particularly powei· co1•rupts, and absolute power corrupts a bsolutely." We~th disastrous effects on the living standards of the workers in some is p·ower, a11d with immense wealth power becomes a bso_lute. of the economlcally underdeveloped countries which are still However regrettable, it is none the less true, t hat m most ma.inly dependeilt on the export of raw materials. That is why state legisfatures, and even in Congress, there are men not above we welcomed the active part played by our friends from the wearing corporation liveries. USA and Canada in our recent world economic conference which There is, indeed,. but one force in this nation today able and sounded the alarm and pointed the way towards economic and willing to oppose the constantly augmenting power of the corporasocial progress for all tbe workers, eyerywhere. tion. 'rhat force is the trade unions. Des troy them, and "governICFTU Helps In Fight Against Shackles ment of the people, by the people and for the people" will, most ''We are at one with you, too, in your stubborn fight to pre- certainly, vanish from this pnrt of the earth. These are t houghts vent the reactionaries filching hard-won labor rights. We wish Worth bearing In mind on Labor Day. all success to the AFL-CIO and the United Mine Workers in In other words, as Edmund Burke said : "Public life is a situa- , their campaign to thwart the big business interests which are tion of powe1· and energy; he trespasses against his duty who trying to exploit a few isolated cases .of labor corruption ·in or- sleeps upon his watch, as well as he that goes over to the enemy." der •to introduce punitive legislation for hamstringing the whole My very best Wishes to all District 50 members in t he United trade union movement. In the case of Canada we have shown St\ites and Canada for a profitable and enjo:v,able holiday. our practical sympathy by sending a token donation from the International Solidarity Fund to help the sttiking Newfoundland loggers, brutally deprived of their most elementary trade union thing in their power to weaken and destroy our trade union . movement." rights. 11 ''On this ~bor. Day 1959 we cannot do better than to reaffirm David A. Morse, dlrector-gen~ral of the International tathe aims of the ICFTU: bor Oflice-"Labo1• Day 1959 has an added significance for the 'To achieve ftlll employment and an end to the tragic waste . ILO. The 40th anniversary of the organization falls in this year, '.15 does the 25th anniversary of Uriited States membership of the world's human and material resources: ''To harness modern science and technology to the needs m th~ ~O. We can look back with pride upon much shared accoi:nphsll;nent. We can look ahead with confidence to an of the whole people, not tbe selfish interests of the few; · "To provide adequate economic aid to the developing coun- e~a m which_our common ideals of social progress for all men tries, together with fail' prices and markets for their primary ' ~ le!ld !heir great meaning to new endeavors in the cause of social Justice and world _peace." prodUcts; ~ The Very R,ev. 1\lsgr. George G. Higgins, director, Social 'To reassert the right of the workers to be heard on all Action Department,_ National Catholic Welfare Conference-"The_ matters affecting their economic and social progress; "To give all the dependent peoples the right to decide their ~:~~ af~~ate solution to the crisis currently cohfronting us in the own destinies and, in particular, to put an end to colonialism d O • ·t or-management relations is a profound renewal of moral in Africa; ~le:piri ur values, which, of course, will never come to pass "To oppose all dictatorships, and in the ..first place finish of Gosd ;~!e~_?,rkers throw themselves on the mercy with that of-France who. clings to power thanks in large part to the connivance of leading democratic powers; • .AFL-CIO Executive Ooun ·1 "L b · t . ci a_ 01· Day should be 'supper "To free the peoples once and for all from the nightmare the Steelworkers da , low unionists in steJ to display a1m •m-arm solidarity with felof nuclear warfare through agreements on the banning of • • It sh_ould_mark a day when labor can weapons of mass destruction within the framework of general pause not onl to t • st0 itself to pro~ess ~\~ ck of past gains, but also to rededi~ate and controlled international disarmament. r1utur~' by a renewed sphit of unity be"ln all these aims we know that the North American trade hind the strii{ing Steele wor{ers o Federal Council of Ch • • W unions are solidly behind the ICFTU. We are confident we can urc!1es of_ Christ in America-" e count on your whole-hearted support in the gr~at task of organ- call upon the churches t 0 then· own contribution toward izing the world's unorganized; that we can rely on yow- unflinch- the needs and functio . reexamme st 5 ing opposition to communism, as to all forms of totalitarian op• "V!e urg!'! 011r churche/;~g ~f rong and responsible labor unio~ t,on of the legitimate a~~omote among their people an apprec1~pression." Other statements, briefly excerpted, were made by the fol- our free society, Free I bnecess_ary role of organized labor in peoples in today's world." a or umons are important to all free lowing: • AFL-CIO President George Meany-''Today, labor faces another kind of warfare-a cold war deliberately invoked against Vermont Kills 'Right-to-Work' the whole trade union movement by the big business interests of The Vermont legislature b the nation. move for a referendum on • Y an overwhelming vote, quashed ,a "The spokesmen for these interests--such as the National daunted the National R' a work law. This, apparently, hasn t Association of Manufacturers and the Chamber of Commerce- claiming "Vermont Cam ight to Work Committee which is propay llp service, of c»urse, to the unden!a:ble fact, that unions have . The committee admft~gn Moves Ahead." . • done a great deal to improve the Amencan way of life and that tnuslastlc grass roots su ed !,hat there was "an absence of e1;1· I 1~1Ri::i~ 0 l �'\. September 1, 1959 ourna .t'age 7 41 West Virginia Mine Inspectors Named; 1'1,===~=2=3=fFA=T=A=L=BT=l::ilES=::zlN ca l!.IZ3=J=U=L=Y===1~ Wilson Asks Board To Hold Another Exam State Mines Chief Crawford L. Wilson of West Vitginia has ' T~e nation's coa l mines claimed. 23 liv.es in July and recorded a fatality frequency rate in the "disaster rarige," although the asked the State Mine Inspectors' Examining Board to consider . annual vacation shutdown reduced both man-hours and produc- holding an additional examination to replenish the list of eligible • • t ion to the lowest levels of the year, according to the U. S. Bu- candidates for mine inspectors. r eau of Mines. F atal accidents occur red at a frequency .of · 1.28 • ' Under provisions of the 1958 mining act, Wilson must use perdeaths per million man-hours of exposure, double the rate for sons found qualified by the board to fill 51 mine inspectors' positions. A -list of 53 eligible candidates resulted from a prior exam-May and June of this year. • The cumulative toll of fatal accidents stpod at 175 for the ination. He said '41 appointments had already been made, includyea r, ·compared to 177 fatalities in the year-ago period. The ing 30 inspectors appointed on a permanent tenure basis and 11 seven-month fa t ality freq uency for bituminous mines, .92 per. ' others on one-year probationary status. He said he would make m illion man-hour s, was slightly less than the year-ago figure of an additional eight appointments within 60 days, and that would 1.00 per million man-hours. The anthr/;lcite frequency, however, leave only· two positions to be filled from four remaining eligible was m arkedl y more severe, 1.69 per million man-hours compared candidates. Wilson, who has certain disc_retionary authority in ·selecting to a 1958 frequency of .98. For all coal mines the average fatality . frequency was thus essentially unchanged from a year. ago, .99 personnel from the list the board recommends, expressed a desire per million man-hours for the first . seven months of 1959 com- to have a larger number of qualified persons from which to make the remaining selections. pared to 1.00 last year. • A major m ine disaster pccurred in both months, January and Meanwhile, an opening event in the "Miner's Day'' celebration March, t hat claimed more lives and recorded higher fatality in Beckley, August 22, was the swearing in of six new inspectors. frequencies tha n J uly. The J anuary frequency, swollen by the 12- Wilson charged the new inspectors with the responsibility of man death toll of the Knox Coal Co. floo d disa's ter in the anthra- organizing efficient, safe districts where the mining laws are- fully cite region, was 1.39 per million man-hours ; a second major dis· enforced.. Uppermost in their aims, he said, must be the health aster, a . gas explosion in a small Tennessee mine t~at wiped out 'and safety of the mine workers. the entire nine-man working force, is reflected m the March Receiving the appointments, for a one-year probationary period, fatality rate of 1.36 per million man-hours. • were Lawrence Snyder, Shady Spring, formerly a foreman at T he first te n days of July fell within the annual vacation shut- Stotesbury No. 11 Mine· of Eastern Gas & Fuels Associates in down. Coal output as a res ult dropped to a total of 25 million ·Helen; H iram P. James, ·Peytona, formerly transit man with .tons for t he month from the year's high of 38 million tons pro- Acme Engineering Services, Charleston; Vernon W. Lawson, duced in J une and man-hours dropped to 17.9 million from" 27 Sophia, formerly at Stotesbury No. 8 Mine of Eastern Gas; Edm illion. The J'une toll of fatal accidents was 18 lives. ward Jarvis, Scarbro, formerly assistant foreman with the OgleRoof fa lls claimed 12 lives in July, making a' cumulative roof bay Norton Coal Co., Summersville; Delmar T. Darnell, _S ophia, toll of 75 for t he yea r to date. Other underground fatality assistant foreman of Stotesbury No. 10 mine, Eastern Gas, in causes in J uly were: rib fall, 1 ; haulage, 2; electricity, 2; ma- Helen; and Norman Ratliff, W:elch;formerly with the Island Creek chinery, 1. Surface facilities at deep mines had 4 fatalities from Coa_l Co., at ~olden. these causes : haulage, 1, and "miscellaneous" accidents; 3. S_trip Gov. Cecil H. Vnderwood was expected to -name a successor mines r epor ted 1 fa tal accident that was caused by machinery. • soon for the unexpired portion of an eight-year term being vacated Four of the roof deaths, or on~-third of the month's .total, ?C· by one of 'the two employer representatives on the. five-member curred in small mines, the so-called' Title I operations employ!ng examining bpard, H. E, Mauck, general superintendent, Olga Coal _ • fewer than 15 • men underground. A single accident in: a small Co., Coalwood, who is leaving the state. Other board members Tookland, Va ., pit caused two of these deaths. are G. R. Spindler, director, School of Mines, West Virginia UniThrough July this year 15 states had reported one or- mo~e versity, who is board , chairman; · Raymo11d O. Lewis, President, coal mining fatalities , as follows·: West Virginia 53, Pe1:nsylvan1a District 17, U./1:fWA, Charleston; Roy F. Hayhurst, of Local Un52 (bituminous 25 anthracite .27); . Kentucky 21, Tennessee 14, ion 1058, District 31, lampman, Christopher Coal Co., Osage, and Virginia 14, Illinoi; S, Alabama 3, Indiana 3, Iowa 2, Ohio 2, Utah Joe L. McQuade, pr~sident, Tioga Coal Co., Richwood. 2, Colorado 1, Maryland 1, Missouri 1 and _Oklahoma 1, ' PRODUCTION. OF COAL AND NUl\'IBER OF FATALITIBS • DURING FIRST SEVEN MONTHS OF 1959 1 Tolnl Pcnnsylvnnll\ Anthrnclte Bituminous Production Production Production Killed (shor_t tons) Killed (shorl tons) ( short tons) January ··-- 35,730,000 24 2,194,000 February .. 33,760,000 19 1,5/57,000 March ___ 34,820,000 35 1,508,000 April - -·-·· 34,460,000 19 1,503,000 May 34,860,000 15 1;388,000 June _.... 36,470,000. 15 1,683,000 July ........- - 23,970,000 21 1,140,000 TOTAL ..... 234,070,000 148 10,973,000 Jan.-July'58 221,161,000 158 11,887,000 1 All fitturts arc subjec.t to revision. • alysis, U , S, Bureau of Mines. Killed 15 37,924,000 39 2 35,'317,000 21 1 36,328,000 •. 36 2 35,963,000 21 2 36,248,000 17 3 38,153,000 • 18 2 25,110,000 23 27 245,043,000 175 19 ::r· 048,000 177 Tablp prcparod by D, .. of Ac(ident A11- Electric Power Plants Increase Coal Use An increase of 15.2 percent in the consumption of coal by electric utility power plants was recorded in May compared with the same month a year ago, according to the latest report of the Federal Power Commissiop. The utilities burned 12,946,425 tons • for the month as compared with consumption of 11,~41,213 tons for May, 1958; May's con~umpti_on was .7 percent higher than the 12 850 247 tons burned m April: 'Fu~l oil consumption by the utilities increased_ 21.1 perc~nt this May compared with May, 1958. Consump~1on of gas mcreased 28.7 percent in May, 1959, as compared with May, 1958. For a 12-month period the utilities burned 161,952,4?7 tons of coal, an increase 9f 3 per~nt for _c_o'!-1 as . compared with correspondlng totals•for the 12 months ending May 31, 1958. There was a 21.5 percent increase in the use of f_uel oil for the same ~u. .,,.,:i ,., 8.5 nercent increase m the use of gas. as A recent e·s timate places total United. States bituminous reserves at nearly two trillion tons, which, with current methods and rates of recovery, would last almost 2000 -years, points out .a recent Twentieth Century Fund study. Two-thirds of the reserv~s lie west of the Mississippi. Enter The World's Series Of Safety! The World's Series of Safety-the 18th National FirstAid and Mine Rescue Contest-will be held in Buffalo, N. Y., October 6-7. Now that many state and sectional contests have been held, entries are expected by contest officials to pour in. In 1957, 60 first-aid and mine rescue teams competed in the colorful event at Louisville, Ky. Contest officials hope for at least 70 entries this year and urge company officials, or team captains who wish to enter, to submit their entries as soon as possible. Entries should 'be sent to the contest secretary, H. F, Weaver, Ohief, Division of Coal ].\line Inspection, U. S. Bureau of l\Un\ls, Washington 25, D. C. The mine rescue contest will be held on Monday, Oof;o.. ber 5. The first-aid contest will commence the following day, at which time the contest wllt be officially opened by its genera,! chairman, l\Iarllng J, Ankeny, Director, U. S. Bureau o~ Mines, and the confostants will be welcomed to Buffalo by Mayor Fl'ank Sedita. The usual award banquet will be held the night tl\e contest o)oses, October '1, and each participant will be presented wit-h .a memento symbollc of his interest in safety In America's coal Jnlnes. Buffalo ls altuated on Lak~ Erle at the Canadian border, approximately 20 miles from Niagara Falls. �September i, 1959 '-'-- Page 8 United Jliine Workers Journal- lfmann Team Wins Firsf-Aid Confesf I H □fr Beckley 'Mi By a Journal Cqrrespondent BECKLEY, W. Va.-With George J. Titler, Presi• Correspo11de11t dent of UMWA District 29, James Leeber, Jr., District 8Y a Journal A 32-year-old miner employed by the scJfety director, and other UMWA officials lending their BECKLEY, W. Va.- 1 ted as "Young Miner of the Year" full cooperation, Miner's Day in Beckley .Saturday, Au- Sla1: For~ C~al Co. w~t:~i~~ here on August 22. gust 22, was the most successful event of its kind in the during . Mmer s D1· a Soak Creek, who has worked more tha n 8 He 1s Jesse 8 • igg ' 12· years in the mines a nd done history of this coal area. just about everything t here is The Beckley Chamber to do in connection with a mine of Commerce; Beckley Junoperation. ior Chamber of Commerce, He has operated a cutting management, labor and lomachine, a . shuttle car, worked as a roof bolter and worked cal business firms pooled in the tipple, in addition to be- their efforts to make the ing a wireman and a brakecelebration outstanding. man. The fun started at 1:30 Riggs was presented a plaque in the afternoon-although by Donald Wise, a Beckley Junior Chamber of Commerce the city took on a holiday member, at the Raleigh County air early in the day. At Memorial Building. H e also 1:30 the beauty contestreceived a watch from the Beckants, talent contestants and ley Chamber of Commerce. those vying for the young- . Riggs recently passed a stat e 4 • ?ZJJ.iiiill• miner-of-the-year award examination for assista nt mine BeClllty Queen Lois ll!axey reported at the Memorial foreman. He is a member of Jesse B. Riggs UMIVA Local Union 6108, DisBuilding in mid-town _Beckley. trict 29. He has also taken a Out of a field of seven comely beauties, JJfiss Lois .111axey, of state first-aid course and has never had an accident du ri ng his MacArthur, was crowned as the beauty queen. Joyce Gilbreath, years in and around the mines. Linda and Cathy Webb and Vicky Jordan won prizes in the talent Riggs owns his .own home and has had a year of night courses contest. at Beckley College in addition to taking an International CorJesse B. Riggs was chosen as the young-miner-of-the-year. • respondence School course in mining. He has also completed the He lives at nearby Soak Creek. ( Read story in adjoining column.) West Virginia University extension course in mining. -At 4:30 in the afternoon a parade was formed and moved . . A member of the Sophia Methodist Church, Riggs has been in• through the mid-town section, ending up at the Woodrow Wilson itiated as a first-degree Mason. He also is assistant advisor of · an Explorer Scout troop at Sop)lia. High School athletic field, scene of the first-aid contest. While all other events were highly interesting, the Fourth Annual Raleigh-Fayette-Wyoming, or Tri-County First-Aid League, James Ri~ton and Arthur Houchins. These men belong to UMWA ~ first-aid contest .was nothing less than spectacular. It attracted Local Union 7209. 35 of the very best first-aid teams in the nation. • . I:ourth honors ·went to the Pocahontas Fuel's Bishop (Va.) Safety Director Leeber announced that ·t he meet is now the Colliery team, captained by Clemon Grindstaff. Other team memlargest sectional event of its kind in the nation-and second ~~h are: larence Crigger, Reese Riley, Early Cruise, Paul Goad, only to the National Meet, which will be held this year in Buf_a a~ 1 haley, Fred Thomas and Jack Vance. It received the .. falo, N. Y., October 5-7. Br~~usgtOpe~tor's trophy, presented by George Trevorrow, While five problems were slated on the regular Pl'9gram of 0 as_ n on, • C., BCOA safety director. The members of competition, it was necessary to stage two extra ones before the the t_eam belong to UllfWA Local Unio11 6025, District 29. ' winners could be determined. fro!ifth place went to the U. S. . Steel Corp.'s No. 3 Mine team The Pocahontas Fuel Co.'s Itmann Mine team from Wyoming ·memb~:sry~:,V· Va. 1lber! Wagers is captain of this outfit. Other County took top honors and was awarded the Mine Safety Ap- Otis Ilall Reu Q~t':n Dillon, John Dickinson, Gordon Walrod, pliances trophy by Henry Carter. Carl Parks captained the win- the Natio~al ~iel A uru_e _'.1nd llfax Webb. This team was given . _ a ssociation plaque. ning crew. The following men are team members: William ll1ct Individual awa.rds als O Coy, Ralph Green, Jolin Salters, Howard Cox, Harold Carte and teams, and •the fir w~n to every man on the top five .lames Cook. These men are members of UMWA Local U11ion · Beckley business .J~~l~ce h~nners received $300 in cash from 9690, Di8trict 29. In fact all of'the five top-winning teams except 0 for the national meet. e P defray team expenses to Buffalo one hailed from District 29. It was an ideal night f0 th • . . Second place went to the Island Creek Coal Co.'s Holden in the 70's, after a day whi ~ e conte~t, the te~perature be~ng • Division team from Logan County in District 17. This team, where the mercury rarel c :was wamush for this plateau region is made up of Captain Harrison Porter, Clinton Spry, Clyde Spry, A crowd of a ro - Y passes the 80 mark in midsummer. • .lames Hall, Dewey Thompson, John L. Davis - and Dewey Craft. ceedings. PP xunately l,500 persons witnessed the proIts members belong to U111 IV A Local Union 5817. It received the T' included Geo National Mine Service trophy, presented to the team by Otto eralSpeakers men v.rho rank high - ~~ itler,_ representing labor, and_ sevBrown. cl)ief of the West Vir .11:1 e coal industry. Crawford L. Wilson, An idea of just how terrific the competition was may be gained and_Wilson also presenf1~ ~h D:artment of Mines, spoke briefly by the fact that the team _now holding the nati?n~l champions~ip . Four high school ba~ • _e t~-place team with its trophy. ·· ,, squeaked into third place m the local meet. This 1s the Wyommg Band from Woodrow W~o incl~dmg the famous "Flying Eagle Mine crew. The Wyoming Mine is owned by Island Creek Coal The Woodrow Wilson High School, were in the parade. Co. the contest and played ~sicians .remained at the field during George J. Titler made the presentati9n to this team, giving meet opened. he National Anthem just before the it the UMWA's International Union plaque. , Joshua Smith of Mount H The Wyoming team is made up of Captain Willard Graham, Aid League, act~d as gene~ \>Pe, _head ·of the three-county First.____ _....:..;~ ....;..---=,n : Ad O Slbnrt latli.am Dalton. Flpud Barnette, 1 f rn ~-- �" September 1, 1959 United Mine · Worke.rs Journal Page .9 ' -~~ TALENTED l\IISSES-Winners in the talent show held in connection with l\'liner's Day in Beckley, \V. Va., August 22 were (left to right): Vicky Jordan, 8, who won third place with a· rock-and-roll dance; Linda Webb, 121 and Cathy \Vebb, 13, first place winners who ilid a tap dance, and Joyce Gilbreath, 15, who copped second place honors with a modern jazz dance: TITLER, LEEBER OBSERVE-qeor;: ,,·; :,:;~;ie; (left), President of UMW'A District 29, antl James Leeber, Jr., District 29 safety director, watch as 35 teams compete in the first-aid contest which climaxed Miner's Day in Beckley on August 22. Titler described the 1959 first-aid meet as the most successful in the history of the District. noon. At five instruction was given team captains and judges by the chief judges. At 5:30 an appetizing dinner was served team m embers, judges, special guests and officials. • From 5:30 to 6:20 there was music by the Woodrow Wilson band, under the direction of Glenn Sallack. Opening remarks were made by General Chairman Joshua Smith and then came the national anthem by the· band. The invocation by the Rev. James W, Witherspoon followed. Cecil L. Miller, recently elected mayor of Beckley, delivered the address of welcome, as did David Abrams, general chairman of the Miner's Day celebration for the Chamber.· of Commerce. Response was by Titler and S. Austin Caperton, president of the Smokeless Coal Operators' Association. • Various others spoke · during the evening, including Crawford Wilson,. James C. Westfield and William R. Park of the U. S. Bureau of Mines; James B. Benson, safety director, Southern Coal P roducers' Association; Harry Gandy, Jr., safety director, National Coal Association, and George Trevorrow. Chief judges for the meet were F . J. Furin and J . S. Ferraro, It was a big day in Beckley-and.' a great day for mine safety. And it's a safe bet some of these teams will be heard from in th'e national meet in Buffalo, N. Y : Coal Miner Outstanding In Utah Legislature Frank Memmott, freshman member of the Utah state legislature, is a young man-32-who led the fight for repeal of the "right-to-work" law in that state. . He is the son. of a coal miner and worked in the mines many years himself, mostly for the Independent Coal·and Coke Co. at its Castle Gate No. 2 mine. He was a member of UMWA Local Union 5916, District 22. As a graduate 9f tJ:ie University of Idaho he received his de'.gree in engineering and later went to the University of Geneva in Switzerland as a Rockefeller exchange student where he received a Master's -Degree in foreign affairs. He was told while he was in Switzerland that he was the. first -American coal miner ever to study at the University of Geneva. Memmott is now in business .for himself in the mining machinery field and is considered an expert on modern mechanized mining methods. • In his maiden speech to the ·Utah legislature he pointed out that although the coal industry in the Rocky Mount{lin area is depressed it has a great future and the state of Utah would do well to take steps to see that the coal mining :industry would never be lost to the state's economy. Later, he arranged for all the legislators to visit the Castle Gate No. 2 Mine, an ~xperieIJce most of them said they would never forget. His object was to display the advantages of unionism and to point up the ever present need for coal mine safety. Congressmen Seek More Food For Jobless I ' Legislation that would assist the more than six million now unemployed or pn relief rolls to get more adequate food has been introduced in the House of Representatives by two Pennsylvania Democrats, Elmer Holland and John Dent. Their bill would require the government, through the Commodity Credit Corporation, to set aside and process and package for human consumption peanuts, red beans and oats. Holland and Dent point out that we do not hesitate to suppo~ programs that will feed and nurture the under-privileged children throughout the world, a program with which they are in a_ccord. But, they feel that we should also take care of our own people as well. "Out of every ten pounds of peanuts, we can have nine pounds of peanut butter, a got>d nourishing food. Out of every two pounds THE WINNERS COLLECT-Pocahontas F)lel Co.'s Itmann of oats, one pound of rolled oats can be processed. The red oeans 1\Iine first-aid team (above) took first honors in-the fourth annual need only to be_packaged. , Raleigh-Fayette-Wyoming County safety meet held August 22 at "We feel the time is certainly here when we should care for our .Beckley, w. Va. The meet was conducted , in connection with own people and add these items to those now on the surplus food Miner's Day celebration, the largest sectional event of its kind In lists," said both Congressmen . This bill is the· result of a series of conferences held by the . the United states. Henry Carter of l\iine Safety Appliances Co,, • Bluefield, is shown presenting the trophy. Others in the picture, left two Western Pennsylvania Congressmen with various groups into right, first row: John Salters', James Cook, Howard C~x; back eluding representatives of unemployed steelworkers-PAI. row: Captain Carl Pa.r lts (accepting trophy), Hnrold Ca.rte, WU., _ _ u - a- •• n.~1-1, r.rAAn~d H ff Moor0eh) 'JTI\IWA l&cM__Sil._Q.....NlrurnI..i Falls! Enter the Natlonnl Flrst-.{\id_n_1.1\l ~lin('I �Page 10 - September 1, 1959 ; , United Mine ·w~rkers Journal Mexican Farm Labor Agreement Extended; California Begins Crackdown On Abuses As negotiation of a two-year extension of the U. S.Me~can migrapt labor agreement was being concluded in Mexico City in August, California was starting a longawalted crackdown on abuses in the system of importing Mexican farm labor. • • The U. S.-Mexican agreement, which extends the program to June 30, 1961, was altered in only relatively minor respects and provides no wage increases for the poorly paid "braceros" imported ·to harvest crops on corporate farms in California and other southwestern states. About 450,000 farm workers were imported from Mexico last year. LABOR CONFERENCE-These are the officers a nd chairmen of standing committee of the Labor Conferenc~ of the National Safety Council.- In the front row (_left to right) , a r ~ Rodger Coyne, International Union of _Electr1c~l Workers, cham1;1an of the awards committee; G. G. .Grieve, National Safety Council, conference secretary; John R,. Kumpel, Rubber Workers, congress program committee cha.irman; Floyd ,Van Atta, Auto \:Vorkers, ·state labor departments committee · chairman, a.nd Lloyd Utter, Auto Workers member of the NSC board of directors and immediate past ~hairman of the Labor. Conferer:tce. In the back row: J. George Eichhorn, Machinists, publications committee chairman; Charles Ferguson, Director, Safety Division, U1UWA, chair- · man of the Labor Conference aml member of the N SO board of directors; P. t. Siemiller, l\Iachinists, vice president for labor and member of the board; Elwood D. Swisher, Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers, chairman of the membership committee. . American labor, through the U. S. Section of the Joint U. S.Mexico Trade Union Committee, with which the UMWA is affiliated, boycotted the negotiating sessions held .in Washington and Mexico City in protest against being· denied consultative status by the Labor Department. In California, meanwhile, a high-ranking state employment officer was dismissed for alleged corrupt practices and the state farm placement service announced a full-scale investigation of the Mexican farm labor program was underway. The state attorney general's office also was making an inquiry, according to The New York Times. The San Diego area farm supervisor later resigned under fire and labor importation permit of a large Coachella Valley rancher was revoked for discrimination against domestic farm workers. . Rock ,ems IForenum Day After Mine ©pens The California director of employment, John E. Carr, \Vas reForeman Jolin Lepto, 49, one of three men including the opported in California newspapers to have said that "state farm placement aides have deliberately and illegally kept Mexican erator who worked underground, was killed August 11 by a roof nationals on farm jobs to which domestic farm workers are en- fall during_the second day of mining operations in the 09 Mine of Duran Coal Co., Mount Hope, W. Va. • titled." •_Lept~ was alone in the mine at the time. He was only reBetween 100,000 and 150,000 "braceros" are brought in from Mexico annually to work •on California farms. An even larger ~ently hired as, foreman of the mine, which opened August 10. number are employed in Texas, and Arizona, New Mexico and Its three entries pierce the highwall of a former strip mine Federal mine inspectors reported the foreman's deatl~ was Arkansas also import large numbers of Mexican contract workca_use~ by "a fall of inadequately supported roof." They said coners. • The Mexican contract program, an outgrowth of the man-' tnbutmg factors were "failure to properly evaluate an impending power shortage in World War II, has been under incessant crit- roof-fall hazard and to install crossbars in the area of rolls and icism of organized labor and, -more recently, other organizations. surface cracks." Roof in the entry was known to be loose, Major criticisms are that it deprives domestic fafm labor of em- drummy. and crac½ed, but only two additional posts were set to ployment, has been used as a device to depress wages of domestic support Duran. it earlier m the shift• ,according to Mi ne operat or John farm workers and has led to exploitation of the Mexicans themselves. tha!t;~er present iaw, as a Tit~e ~- operation employing· fewer Last year Congress extended until 1961 the act, PubUc Law 78; , t mfetyn undergr?lmd, the mme is exempt from Federal mand a ocy sa e regulations. which authorizes the importation of Mexican braceros. Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell has named a: four-mah committee to make a study of the program and report to hiin, probably betore Mitchell Tc Hold Hearing On Migrant Labor the end of this year, their recommendations dn its future. Major • Secretary of Labor Jam p 1M"t es • 1 chell •has announced he will questions to be considered are the program's effect on the ag'~ hold a ptibiic hear· S ricultural economy and domestic farm workers, should the pro- proposals to amen~;h ~ptembe~ 10 and 11 in Washington on his gram be made permanent, what admipistrative · or legislative ployment service supplteteg~lahons under which t~e public e~mi!5ra1;t workers to fanners. He sa1d changes are necessary in operation of tb.e program and inter- the purpose of the am national relations aspects. The study grotip is composed of Ed- ported facilities in und~~~~~t! is to p~vent the use of tax-sil~O ward Thye, former U. S. Senator from Minnesota; Msgr. George tions and transportation r pr_evailmg wages, working cond~G. '.Higgins, director of the social action department, National workers from out-of-stat!' ac 1_ces .m a.re~s where farmers recrmt Catholic Welfare Conference; Glenn E. Garrett, chairman of the vited to attend and give t t~ources. All interested parties are inul . es unony. Th Texas Council on Migrant Labor, and Dr. Rufus B. von Kleihs. . . . . e r_eg ations to be amend d d mid, chancellor, University of Southern California. ers, not nnported workers e eaI with domestic farm work· ~mployed on Southwester such as the Mexfoan "braceros" widely Packinghouse Workers Explain High Meat Prices 500,000 persons make u n ~orporate ~arms. :13~tween 400,00Q and CHICAGO (PAI)-Speed-up, automation and heavy layoff~ force, according to the L!borh;eAmerican nugratory farm labor marked 1958 for ·the packing house workers while "sensational Thes: workers as well as soni partmep~. .. 3 profits" marked the year for the packers, according to reports or full-t~e for: wages on u. s. f e •5 million o~h~rs who wo~~ part by the United Packinghouse Workers. . fnost soc1al legislation such • . a1;11s arf ou_ts1de the protection of In its current bulletin, Facts & Figu-res1 the union notes that wa~e and Unemployment in:s workmen .11 compensation, miriitntiin Armour & Co. rolled up $9 million in taxable profits . during 1958 curity program was expande~\ance. Only recently the social se-. 0 as compared with only $1.8 million in 1957. Wilson's profits for • cover farm Workers. the year were so good that dividends were increased from $1 No Brickbats For The B . kl · , · a share to $1.40 while Cudahy profits went up 29 percent as com. . r1c ayers pared ~th 1957. • . ~!,N~EW¥7Y~O~R~K{t(;iP~AUJ)j":~;:-~Asking how much profits could be made during a year when - wealthy slick ma . - The impossible has ha d I A big the packers were claiming the loss of profit margins, Facts & Fiu- ' Union ,:puts no li~me has _finally conceded 't hat f~e~ : kl ers: ures said: . day." on the nwnber of brick e ~IC ay . r · ''The answer lies in automation lmocldng packinghouse workThe Suiurda . s a man can lay pe ers out .of their jobs and in higher prices tor meat products (often favorite anti-un~ E-:_:ininu _Post Pulled the rug O t f l'n d . a i fa irt ) with the ad ed a o·n i n egution in captions acco u _ro un ebrl ·rkl,wh,~ __ , . _mpanymg a dou e~ ., f ~;;;~==~:___j �United illine Workers Journal September 1, 19_59 Jenkins· Appointed Admiriidrafor .Of ,W hit~sburg (Ky.) Memorial° IHospihal ' P~ge 11 Rose $peaks On John L. Lewis EDITOR'S NOTE: Russell W. Rose a member of UMWA Charles D. Jeni.ins, Jr., has been appointed Administrator of the Whitesburg Memorial Hospital, .Whitesburg, Ky., effective Local Union 9878, District 12, recently took a college exSeptember .15, 1959, it has been annou~ced by John Ne.zpdorp, tension course "Principles of Speech." One of his assign1"1.D., Medical Administrator ments was to talk about someone he felt worthy of for the Miners Memorial praise. He chose "What O~e Man Thinks of John L. Hospital Association. He Lewis." Rose got an "A" on the · course and we feel succeeds Joseph J. DoTJeY, Jr., who has been Adminthat his ·oration printed below will demonstrate why. rr istrator of the hospital since its opening in March, 1956. ':: In ·this great land of ours, there are many great leaders; but Jenkins has been associthe field of labor organization there is one leader who has no ated with . the three-state in peer. chain of ten hospitals servFirst, let me point out that he is a man of great intellect. A ing beneficiaries of t h'e United Mine Workers Wel- man tjiat was a frequent advisor to President Roosevelt from fare and Retirement Fund 1932 to 1936. A man lauded by an honorary law degree from • since July, 1955. He was a prominent university. A man I have many times heard disfirst Administrator qf the cussed as "the world's greatest living orator." Secondly, he is a man of high principles. A man of such McDowell, l(y., Memorial Hospital and later trans- morals that, recently, Congressmen have complimented him on ferred to the /If emorial lit ed- the conduct of his office, Neither have they _found any graft ical Center in South William- in the administration of . the multi-million dollar finances of the son , where he was Assistant UMW A Welfare cind Retirement Fund. And, as his fraternal Administrator under William brother and sub-ordinate in the UMWA, I can say that the only perfection required of his associates is loyalty. In return he ~i B. Esson. • @ A graduate of the Univer- gives loyalty-complete loyalty. Third, he is a man of unflinching courage-a man who seldom J sity of Richmond, and holding a Masters Degree in Hos- yields except to strike a hfl:rder blow. ProJ:?ably his greatest pital Administration from the compliment is the profound respect with which his antagonists Charles D. Jenkins, Jr. • Medical College of Virginia, regard him. Internal struggles among divergent factions for . supremacy he served as an ' administrative assistant at the University of Virginia Hospital in Charlottesville and was an officer for the U. S. within the Union in.the early years; and unceasing battles with op.. Air Force Medical Service. This past summer, Jenkins was one . pressive employers have earned him many enemies. Some of of 18 students selected. for the hospital administration develop- them quarrel with his methods. A few have even questioned his ment program at Cornell University. He holds membership in the motives. . But not even his bitterest critic can deny that, lastly, he American Hospital Association, the American Public Health As- is a man of wide accomplishment. sociation, and the Kentucky Hospital Association. He is also He has organized over four milliop workers into the CIO and a member of the Williamson Kiwanis Club and St. Paul's Episco- the UMWA and pioneered them to such_ higher wages that it has pal Church in that city. reflected to the benefit of all labor in the nation. One of his inJenkins with his wife and two young children, will take up stitutions-the UMWA's•Welfare Fund-has cared for many disresidence i~ Whitesburg in the ·near future. • abled -and aged Cover one million beneficiaries) and has built ten • The present · Administrator of th~ Whitesburg' _M emorial Hos- hospitals·. Even most of the newspapers (which oft-times in the pital, Doney, has been in the employ of MMHA smce 1954, serv- . past 'used him as a whipping-boy) now usually freely admit that ing first in the central office in Washington, D. C., and then as both he, personally, and the1 editorials in his United llline Workers Administrator upon the completion of construction of the hos~ Journal have been among the strongest and most effective suppi_tal. He has been selected by the International Coop~ration ~ of much good legislation; such as Social Security, unemAdministration Public Health .Program to serve as an adviser. to ployment compensation, veterans' benefits, mine safety codes, the system of ·national hospitals in the Central American country aid to schools, etc. of Costa Rica and will be stationed in San Jose, its capital and To sum up then-intelligence, courage, integrity, loyalty, and principal city.' • accomplishment-all of these qualities would be treasured in any leader; and they describe a great and remarkable American. Truly, he is "something of a man." 1 Thomas Davis 01 pistrict ~O • So for myself and my family-a better life; and for my old age-a security far beyond any other present vision; yes, and Thomas Davis,-Assistant to UMWA District 50 President A. D. for things greater than myself: For every youth better educated Lewis, died August 19 in Williamson, W. Va., of a heart attack. on wages he has helped to gain; and for every home lifted from He was 63. ' • • the economic delinquency of abject poverty; and for every miner's Mr. Davis was an Indiana coal miner and became an or~an- life and limb that has been saved by safety legislation he has izer. for the CIO during the late 1930s. _When the U~A wit~- fought to get; for all the disabled and the aged that his United drew from the CIO he became an organ~ze~ for the (!m~e~ Con- Mine •Workers Welfare Fund has benefacted; yes; and for every struction' Workers, serving ·in Indiana, Illmo1s, West Virg1ma, and hospital built and, in them, for all the suffering ~nded and broken Northern Virginia. . , ,. . bones mended again to usefulness-For all these things, .t hen, In 1946 he was named a District 50 regional d~ector with which he has greatly affected, thank God for the leadership of. headquarters in Johnson City, Tenn., and :was appo1~ted a_s as- Jolin L . . Lewis. Truly, he is quite "something of a man." sistant to A. D. Lewis on Sept. 1, 1948. Smee that time bis assignments have been mostly i~ the So~th, although he often , Interior Department Honors Inspector Young served on special assignments m the Midwest and North, Harry C. Young, ,a Federal coal-mine inspector with the U. S. Bureau of Mines at Birmingham, Ala., until his recent death, has Soft Coal Production Up For Year The National Coal Association, on August 28, estimated been honored' posthUmously with the Department of the Interior's Commendable Service Award and Medal, the Department anbituminous coal production for the week ended ,August 22 at nounced· in Washington, D. C. The award was presented to his approximately 7,105,000 tons against 8,223,000 tons !or the corresponding period ~ast year. Production for the week ended August, widow, Mrs. Ru~h T. Young, now residing at La Canada, Calif.· A native of Alden Station; Pa., Young joined the Bureau at 15, was 7,145,000 tons. Soft coal production from January through August 22, 1959, Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1947, being transferred to Jellico, Tenn., soon was · 254 926 000 tons compared with 246,863,000 tons from Jan- afterward. In 1951 he was· transferred to Birmingham, where .,,1~> r ~ ' i '.j I �Page 12 ·United Mine Workers Journal UNI'I'ED MINE Womrn· § JOURNAL 06ielal Poblkatio• Unite/{ Mlrt11 Wor/,~ al. America 70th ~~ . -----....... /' Sept.ember 1, 1959 JUSTIN McCARTHY, Editor REX LAUCK, Asst. Editor . SEPTEMB);:R I. 1959 , No. 17 'We Told You So' About if ·~ @~~Gu~ Landrum-Griffin Vote Prove§ ll~[ Probably nothing pleases an editor as much as to be . able to say: ''We told you so!" This m~es us feel as -though this business of soothsaying about politics and the multitude of other subjects about w1?ch .we _are · supposed to be experts really is •· worthwhile, after all.· Well, . we told you so about the 86th Congress last November 15. •That was right after the election of the new Congress. .Among other thing$ we said: " ... ~t•a not Qe kidded for one minute into thinki_ng that this election was a great victory for organized labor. ''Tbe same Southern Democrats in both _Houses are going to hold the balance of power in the 86th Congress. And most of them are by no means friends of labor. · • ''Y'e_'re 1:1ot foolish epough to . go around crowing, as the a/L-cio is domg, that everything is fine now that the Democrats have lil.lbstantial majorities in both Houses. "Organized labor' is going to have to continue to tight every inch of the way for any benefits for worlpng people that it may be able t.o beat out of the new Con~ss. "And organized labor ~n•t going to get anyplace by com,. promising on basic issues, We still stand for outright repeal of the Taft-Hartley Law, in contrast to the a/l-cio-which once again is talking about revising it. And we still are opposed to so-called "labor reform" legislation being called for by the pseudo-intellectual nitwits of the afl-ci.o .••" So, what happened? 'The Most Vicious Of The Three' ning around _the country advocating the passa?~ ·of ant_ilabor legislation.· _They have bee~ comprom1smg th~~ principles trying to curry favor with and appease men who want no part of union labor, never .have and never will." I Howe who is one of the most experienced legislative representatives on the Hill, said it was a foregone conclusion that if the anti-labor forces in Congress were given a chance they would come µp with some of the most vicious legislation possible. . He said that Congressmen who had _been told by afl-cio representatives that some so-called labor "reform" legislation was needed and all right .to support were left with the choice of voting for what was offered on the floor of the House or trying to explain to a public that didn't understand the issues w}'J.y they were voting against "labor reform" and thus breaking a campaign pledge. The vote in the House was a political victory for the National Association of Manufacturers, the Chamber of Commerce, Minority Leader Charles A. Halleck (R. Ind.), Rep. Howard W. Smith (Dixiecrat, Va.), chai;rma~ . of the House Rules Committee, and the whole GOPDixiecrat. coalition. Their strategy worked bea1,.1tifully. The coalition was well disciplined. Ninety-five Democrats voted with 1_34 Republicans for the Landrum-Griffin bill. One h~ndred eighty-four Democrats and 17 Republicans voted against it. Legislative represe~tatives of organized labor who were over-confident about the infl.µence of House Speaker Sal? Rayb111:1 (D. 1 Texas) in swinging votes against the Landrum-Griffin bill had the shock of their political lives when Mr. Sam was able to get support from only seven So1;1thern Democrats. Rayburn had been expected to swm~ 35 _t~ 50 Southern votes with his nationwide radio and telev1sion denunciation of the Landrum-Griffin bill: 0 ~e South '~ usual 110 votes, only seven were loyal to thf . e emocrat1c Party platform and the party lead . . , ersh1p. 0 'It Was A S·ad Day For l abor' . anlio;::e~sati? day for labor, for the Democratic Party a on. agl~tfin!i:~~ ~~t~~ bill was 229 for passage and 201 Well, the climax was reached on Thursday, August tives from coal minin t.es ~ere those of 74 Representa~ 13, when the House of Representatives voted on the "wrong," or for the gbtstr1~ Of this group, 23 voted Landrum-Griffin bill, H. R. 8400, the most vicious of the against the bill Of th 1 • ty-one voted "right," or three anti-labor bills being considered by the people's so- by the UMW.A onl end orsed for election last year Eugene Siler CR KY eps. Ivor D. Fenton (R., Pa.), called Representatives. The entire campaign against this union-busting bill Ala.) voted "wr~ng~/• fdrtyGe~rge ljuddleston, Jr. (D., was characterized by ineptness, bumbling, fumbling and receiyed the endors~ment° f th epresentat~ves who had a both-feet-in-the-mouth approach (which still continues) election voted "right.'' ~ . e UMWA m I~st year's by the alleged leadership of the af Trcio. . . • The following li~ts sho h The activities of the representatives of the af Trcio on voted, from the UMWA w . ow coct!--area Representatives Capitol Hill and at the federation's headquarters left Griffin bill and on th POmt of viow, on the Landrumfriendly and pro,-labor Congressmen completely up ip the the legislfition. e later motion to recommit (kill) air as to what organized labor's position really was. As Robert E. Howe, Director, Labor's Non-Partisan 0 e A , Those coal area Re :- : • ' League, put it: "lt is a. sad commentary on labor politics that 12 years against the·Landrum-c~~e~~tives who voted "right," ill,L are: after the passage of the iniquitous Taft-Hartley Act and Jan Carl Albert (D.., 0 ,.,_ am.) Wa; • . (D., W. Va•) urnmfao; Aspinall (D., Colo.), CJeveless than one short year after labor was heralded as hav- N : l\~_Balley 1 (D., N.D.), ste;e~ V te G. Bray (R., Ind,), Quentin ing made gigantic political gains, we are being saddled (D·• ';:a. )ck , Merwtn Coad (D • Oar r (D., Iowa), Franl( M. Clark with anti-labor legislation that makes Taft-Hartley look Johnc:• Dent (D;, Pa.), WlnftJ:~>DeRobert J. Corbett (R., Pa.), ~r like labor's Magn~ Chart.a. I son ., Okla.), Daniel iJ Flo James G. Fult,on (R,, Pi:_), nton (D., Ind,), Ed Edmond· -:!!n~;:/t>, John R.•Foley (D., Md.), • Gray (D., IU.), Denver D, �September 1, 1959 United Mine Workers Journal Page 13 , Byron L. Johnson (D., Oolo,), Elizabeth Kee (D., w..Va.); Robert ~ - Levering (D., Ohio), Peter F. Mack, Jr. (D., DI.), Don Magnuson (D., Wash.). I Others are : Walter H. Moeller (D., OJtlo), Joseph M. .Montoya (D., N. M.), Arch A. Moore, Jr. (R., W, Va.), William S. Moorhead (D., Pa.)_, Thomas E. Morgan (D., Pa.), Morgan M. I\'loulder (D., Mo.), William H. Natcher (D,; Ky.) Oarl D. Perkins (D · Ky) Melvin D. Price (D., Ill.), Stanley A.'Prokop (D., Pa.), William 'J'. • Rnnclull (D., l\lo,), Ralph J. RJvers (D,, ,i\laska) Byron G Rogers • ())., Oolq.), John, P. Saylor (D., Pa.), George E.' Shipley (D., III.), John M. Slack, Jr. (D., W. Va.), Neal Smith (D., Iowa), Harley O. Staggers (D., W. Va.), Tom Steed (D., Okla.), Frank A. Stubblefield (D., Ky.), Thor O. Tollefson (R,, Wash.), James W. Trimble (D., Ark.), James :E. Van Zandt (R., Pa.), Francis E. Walter (D., Pa.), and Fred Wampler (D,, Ind,). Those coal-area ~epresentatives who voted "wrong," for the Landrum-Griffin bill, are: • Howard H. Ba1'er (R., Tenn.), Frank T, J:!ow .(R., Ohio), Claren~~ Cannon (D., MQ.), J. Edgar Chenoweth (R., Colo.), :Robert B. Ch~pertield CR., Ill.), Henry Aldous Dixon (R., Uta,h), Joe L. Evins (D., Tenn.), Ivor D. Fenton (R., Pa.), James B. Frazier, Jr. (D., Tenn.), Leon H. Gavin (R., Pa.), John E. Henderson (R., Ohio), Geor~e Huddleston, Jr, (D., Aia.), W.R. Hull, Jr, (D., Mo.), Thomas G. Morris CD., N. M.), Richard H. Poff (R., Va.), B. Carr oll Reese (R. , Tenn.), Edward H. Rees (R., Kans.), Armistead I. Selden, Jr. (D., Ala.), Eugene Siler (R., Ky.), .Richard M. Simpson (R., Pa.), and Keith Thomson (R., Wyo.), Those who voted "right," to ·recommit (kill) the bill, are: ' Carl Albert (D., Okla,), LeRoy H. Anderson (D,, Mont.), OleveIand M. Bailey (D., W, Va.), William G. Bray (R., In\l.), Quentin N. Burdick (D., N. D.), Frank M. Clark (D., Pa,), John H. Dent (D,, Pa.), Winfield K. Denton (D,, Ind.), Daniel J. Flood fD., Pa.), , John R. Foley (D., Md.), Kenneth J. Gray (D., Ill.), Denver D. Hargis (D., Kans.), Wayne L. Hay1:1 (D., OhiQ) t Elmer J. Holland (D., Pa.), Elizabeth Kee (D., W. Va.), Peter F. Mack, Jr. (D., Ill.). Others : Don Magnuson (D., Wash.), Jo~eph 1\1, Montoya (D., N. l\l.), Arch A. Moore, Jr. (R., W. Va.), William S. Moorhead (P,, Pa.), Thomas E. Morgan (D., Pa.), Carl D. Perkins (D., Ky.), Melvin Price (D., Ill.), Stanley A, Prokop (D., Pa.), Ralph J. Rivers (D., Alaska) ,- George E. Shipley (D., DI.), John M. Slack, Jr, (D., W. Va.), Harley O. Staggers (D., ~- Va.), Francis E. Walter (D., l'a.), Fred Wampler (D., Ind.), Johll P. Saylor (R., Pa.), and William J. Randall (D., Mo.). _ . September 7-13 Is Union Label Week; . Insist On Union Products, Servi.c es • - • This is a reminder to UMWA members and their ~amities that the week of September 7 to 13 is Union Label Week, observed annually by the Union Label & Service Traci~· Department of the AFL-CIO. It is a reminder that union men and women can do much to help their brothers in the labor movement and to maintain ,American standards of wages and working conditions by year-around adherence to the slogan: "Buy Union." The Union Label & Service Trades Department is observing its 50th anniversary this year and the UMWA joins with other American unions in saluting the work Those who voted "wrong," against recommitting the of the department and its dedicated secretary-treasurer, bill, are: , • Joseph Lewis. Wayne L. Aspinall (D., Colo,), Ii:ow~rd H. Baker (R., Tenn,), . The department's principal function is to call to the Frank T. Bow (R., Ohio), Clarence Cannon (D., Mo.), Steven V. attention of the buying public the high quality of union Carter (D,, Iowa), J. E!'fgar Chenoweth (R., Colo.), Robert B. ,, Chiperfield (R,, Ill.), Merwin Coad (D., Iowa), Robert J . Corbett _ label merchandise and the excellence .of uhion services. (R., Pa.), Henry Aldous Dixon (R., Utah), Ed Edmondson CD., The union label on a product mean~ that that product Okla.), Joe L. Evin~ (D., Tenn.),.Ivor D. Fenton (R., Pa.), Jam7s is made under decent working conditions by men and B. 'Frazjer (D., Tenn.>, James G. Ful\on (R., Pa.), Leon H. G8:vm (R., Pa.), Ken Hecltler (D., W. Va.), John E. Henderson (R., Ohio), women who are paid a good union wage. As AFL-CIO George Huddleston, Jr. (D., Ala.), W. R. Hull, Jr. CJ?,, Mo.), W. President George Meany •said: ''The union label is the hallmark of decency in the marketplace,!' Pat Jennings (D., W. Va.). _ • • . • • Others: Byron L. Johnson (D., Colo.), R?bert W. Levering (D., Ohio), Noah M. Mason (R., nt.), ~therme May (~., Wash.), Robert H. Michel (R., Ill.), Wa~ter H. Moeller (D., Oh10),_ '1:homas G. Morris (D., N. M.), ;Morgan M, Moulder (D., Mo.), William H. Natcher (D., Ky.), Richard H. Poff (R., Va.), B. Carroll Reece CR, Tenn.), Edward H. Rees (R., Kans,), Byron~- Rogers (D., ~olo.), Armistead r. Selden, Jr. (D.; Ala.), Eugene Siler (R., Ky.), Richard. M. Simpson (R., Pa.), Neal Smith (D. 1 ~owa), Tom Steed (D., Okla.), Frank.A. Stubblefield (J;)., Ky.)., Keith Th~mson (R., Wyo.), Thor c. Tollefson (R., Wash.) _and James W. ';l'rimble (D., Ark.). • ~eadline Of The V{eek Department I From tne AFL-CIO News Service of, August 20: 'WE MUST DO MORE WORK IN POLITICS,' •MEANY SAYS, · · The crown of all.;..·f-a-cul_ti.... es.,_1_s_co_mm_on sense. •It fs not enough to do the rlgbt thin~, it m~ Lb:_d~1:: :~~ right ~! Take It Easy! "The poor earnest American spends· his day importuned to keep to the right, to curb his dog, move to the rear, watch where he is going, dim his lights, throw trash here, not smoke there, fasten his seat belt, face the front, not stand ill this place or park in that; he is asked to remember the blind, the helpless and Pearl Harbor. . He is tempted. with fattening foods and warned to watch his weight; he is urged to think this and told not to think that; he is solicitiously invited to go into debt to pay for a car, a TV set or a vacation-and urged to be thrifty. He is asked to consider the Jews, reminded of Arab refugee~, cautioned to be kind to minorities. And he is also asked why he doesn't relax!" -Tkoma,s Griffith in. the .Wa,ist-Higk Cultiirc ,f"f.,.__,.,J__ ,a..,......,..., I • _ ___,,:,__.! �Page 14 United .Mine Workers Journal S ep tember 1, 1959 The Day hen Teddy Roosevelt Visited Wilkes-Ba rre Reca lled As Most Colorful By a Journal Correspondent WILKES-BARRE, Pa.-An estimated 250,000 persons-the largest assemblage ever to congregate in this hard coal region's long and colorful history-converged on this city more than half a century ago. It was August 10, 1905, to be exact. The stage for the mass meeting was set when Tho11Z;as D. Nicholls, first President of UMWA District 1, presiding at the District's 7th Annual Convention (July 17 to 22, 1905), announced to the assembled delegates that the rally was to be held in Wilkes-Bal.Te on the 10th of the following month. Disclosure of the rally itself and the date it was scheduled were not significant facts in themselves. For the forthcoming meeting was but one of a series of 36 that were to be held that year throughout the region. But when Mr. Nicholls told the convention that the President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, h ad accepted an invitation of the District 1 executive board to be the •principal speaker for the affair, the press announcements that followed created widespread interest in the event-the magnitude of which never before nor since has been equalied in the anthracite region. The visit of the Chief Executive was to be his first in the ' region-about whose basic industry, its people and its problems he already k;new much. For it was through "Teddy" that the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission was created. The commission played the major role in the settlement of the famous 1902 strike. Roosevelt, elected the 26th President of the United 's tates in 1901 at the age of 42, was the youngest man ever to assume the highest post in the land. He was serving as President when John Jllitchell, a personal friend , was International President of the UMWA. l\llitchell was elected bead of the Union in 1898 at the age of 28. Cardinal Gibbons Another Visitor August 10, 1905, was of dual significance for Wilkes-Barre and the Wyoming Valley. It marked the date of the miners' rally and the 35th annual convention of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union, ~ hose sessions were addressed by no less a church dignitary of the times than His Eminence James Cardinal Gibbons. The hard coal industry, with approximately 168,000 employes, found mi.Jie workers accompanied by their families, from every nook and corner of the anthracite region, heading for WilkesBarre for the big rally. This contingent was supplemented by people from outside the coal fields coming t_o this Luzerne County seat on special excursion sections of steam and electric trains from as far as 200 miles away to see and bear the President of the United States. An hour before Roosevelt's scheduled arrival at 3 p.m ., about 10,000 men and boys, headed by M. J. McLaughlin, grand marshal, marching to the martial music of 50 musical organizationsincluding the famed Catholic Protectory Band of New York City which had led Roosevelt's inaugural' parade-had disbanded after the largest demonstration ever held in this region. When the President arrived, the first man to greet him was President Mitchell. Others were Mayor Fred C. Kirkendall, Rep. Henry Palmer, Philadelphia's Mayor Weaver and the Rev. Father J. J. Curran. Following the exchange of greetings at the railroad station, the Presidentr-aided by regiments of extra police from Scranton, Philadelphia and other cities in the hard coal. area-was escorted to the South River Common where he addressed the massive gathering. . . Roosevelt, in his first talk face-to-face with the mine workers of the anthracite, praised them for the period of labor peace that prevailed following settlement of the long 1902 suspension. He also singled out the great influence which the CTAU represented in building individual character among men. Others who addressed the mass rally were Mitchell, Cardinal Gibbons, Father Curran and Mayor Kirkendall. • Roosevelt, who was accompanied on his trip to the area by a number of his cabinet members, his son Kermit, and nephews : J'Y.n;_.~-.f>Oulil tahn,-._pvnert '' Hnw~ ::ij:_kc:. --1.P.a ancier in } with the added a omg 1 i WED 50 YEARS-Mr. and l\Irs. Clifford W il on of l\Iu hlenl}erg .County, Ky., recently celebrated thoir golden wedding anniversary. He is n. member of UMWA District 23. Th e ,, il ons have six children, 12 grandchildren and four gren.t-g ra ndchildren. One of the children, l\lrs. Patrich Spicer, writes that sh e h ns n e ye r seen n. picture in the Journal of anyone she !mows . Her a.re your parents, Mrs. Spicer. • State Civil Rights Laws Improve . NEW Y~RK (PAl)-~reat strides in passage of state civil nghts laws m the first six months of 1959 ar e reported by the National Labor Service. Four · states-Colorado, Massachusetts, Connecticut an d Ore go~-passed. laws prohibiting discrimination . or segregation in pnvate housing, the first such laws enacted at the s tate level in the United States. California passed a statute proh ibiting discrimination in publicly aided housing. California and Ohio join ed 14 other states which have effective Fair Employm ent Practice laws. Maine joined 22 other states which have civil r ights laws prohibiting discrimination in places of public accommodation, resort or amusement. In•addition to these major achievements, Connecticut strengthened the powers of its Civil Rights Commission by giving it authority to initiate complaints in cases involving discrimination in public accommodations and to issue affirmative relief orders in all types of cases under its jurisdiction. - California broadened its civil rights statute by making it applicable to all business establishments and to professional and vocational schools. Sanctions available to the New Mexico •Fair Employment Practice Commission were strengthened somewhat, and Missouri enaeted a ~tatute prohibiting discrimination in state employment, but provided no punishment for · evasion. Missouri also made its temporary Human Rights Commission a permanent agency of the state. Washington prohibited discriminatory inquiries in connection with credit applications. Idaho, California and Nevada repealed their prohibitions against interracial marriage~. At the monument grounds, the President was reported to have. been particularly impressed by the ranks of nearly 100 Grand Army of the Republic veterans who acted '.as a guard of honor. He paused long enough to converse with Cot C. . Bow Dougherty, whom he hailed as "comrade," and also Zebulon Butler, direct descendent of Col. Butler who commanded the forces at the Battle of Wyoming. After placing a wreath of roses at the base of the monup1ent, Roosevelt and hls party contlnµed on into Pittston where his ~ain awaited to take h.im to Lake Chautauqua where he was to deliver an address the following day. Credited with being instrumental in getting the Presid_ent to the area-because of personal friendsbip'.--was President Mitchell. Roosevelt served as President from 1901 to 1909 and Mitchell - ~ -- -- �' Scptetnbcr I, 1959 United Mine Workers Journal Page 15 Bituminous Coal Research To Study Use Of. Radioisotopes In Coal Produetion JE l\IORIE OF 1949-1950-Pictured above 'are Mrs. J. D. Bran ch antl h r fa it hful cow whic11 su11plied her and her famliy f fh· with mi lk a nd butter a nd brought in $40 a month from milk a le during t li'e time when the UlUWA had no contract with th na tio n' o(t coa l produce rs and the Ul\l\VA W elfare and R tirem nt F untl was forced to suspend pension payments. l\Irs. Brn11 •h' Jiu band, J. D., is a. r etired member of Ul\'lWA District 29. CC <OJfi'd©J~o@lii IL©J ~©ir fug~fs 3csck Against a·oss' IE'fR1@5"'M'S i@ !Hl©1msfirill'ilg Unions By Legislation OTTAWA, O tario (PA I) - Canadian labor is striking back hard at efforts of t he Canadian Manufacturers' .Assoclation to hamstring unions along the lines now being fbllowed by American bu iness and industry. President Claude Jodoin, of the Canadian Laoor Congress, has bluntly charged that the Canadian ~arllifadurers' -Associati<;>n is obviously trying "to weali,:en the role of trade unions_ ih their efforts to obtain for their membersliip a fair share of indtistry's profi~~ , Referi'ing to proposals that the m!mu(acture~s ~av~ m~de t? the Canadian government fo regulats labor umons, Joffoiri declared ! • , "The ' picture which the CMA paints of manufacturers being the victims of big labor unions is factually false. "Figures which the CMA quotes with 'regard to the financiai strength of unions show the workers' organizations to be extremely poor beside the wealth of corporations, many of 'Which are the backbone of the CMA." The CMA, Jodoin charged, has now "placed itself firmly _on record as seeking so-called 'right-to-work' laws of the type which were rejected by United States voters in five of the six states in which they were an issue" in the recent election. "These laws are simply a prohibition against an employer and his empioyes mutuaily· entering into a contract which is based on the democratic system of sharing responsibilities. . "This is the same system as that which governs ou,r taxation. If the CMA is sincei·ely concerned wlth what it describes as the 'fundamental human right 1 to work, it might better devote attention to the present gi'owing unemployment resulting from many of its members laying off empioyes." • At the same time United Steelworkers Canadian Director William Mahoney in a statement on the proposais charged that tlie CM.A "with typical arrogance," confuse.cl 11 tiie economic interests of a minority of employe1's With the 'public interest.' " . . The brief, Mahoney said, is "ah open attempt to limit bargaining power by legislation useful on1y to those employers who anticipate strikes -and strikebreakers." . Mahoney also condemned the "lmportation of the discr~ditefl U. $. concept of antl-uhion-security legislation," typified by American "right~to-work" laws. One-third of all fuel consumed in a steam.:.heated building is used ln expelling air from ,the radiators. Maintaining air valves in good workin rdar \.viii nr1>..:arva mnst nf his f~, .. 1 fnr h<>,-ti n The Atomic Energy Commission has awarded a contract for a study of the potential applications of radioisotopes to the mining. transportation, storage, and use of coal to Bituminous Coal Research, Inc., the national research association for bituminous coal. The survey-type project has been set up for a seven-month period, and should be completed early in 1960. • Tlie objective of the program is to determine the nature and potential extent of applications of radioisotopes and reiated technology to the mining, transport, and storage of coal by the coal industry and to the storage, in-plant handling, and use of coal by major consumer groups. The results should comprise an excelle~t oasis for programming further radioisotopic research and engineering projects to d~velop improved coal production ·a i:a utili:ation methods. The project is one of a series on selected industries i:iei.rlg performed by various organizations under the sponsor:5hip of the Office of Isotopes Development of the AEC. Under the AEC program Bituminous Coal Research, Inc., will giye attention to those problems i~ the production ·an~ ·use of coal where existing raa.ibisotoplc technology can be applied and also to coal inclustry problems that might require the development or new radioisotopic methods to solve them. Problems in introducing radioisotopic methods in the coal industry as well as the availability of manpower qualified to handle these ~ew techniques, w:in be examined by BCR. Appropriate ways to supply future trained manpower will also be considered. A study of efficiency gains the coal and related industries might achieve through use of radioisotopes will be included in the program. • For the AEC, Bituminous Coal Research, Inc. will make recoininenciaHbns on steps necessary to expedite the application of radioisotopic methods by tlie coal industry and major coal consumer groups. • In completing the objectives of the project, BCR will use qualified oheinists, chemical engineers, mining and preparation engineers 1 a geologist, fuel technologists, and market analysts. Dr. H. J. Rose, BCR vice president and consultant, is the principal investigator on the ptoject, and J. W. Igoe, BCR director of ad. m.ihistfatiori arid secretary-treasurer; is BCR's coordinator with the AEC. . , THe Nuclear Science and Engineering Corporation of Pittsburgh, Pa., wlll serve BCR as techriical consultants in radioisotopic technology. . _ • Imperial Coal Teciri'i Wins Prize The six-man safety team of Imperial Coal Corp., Diamond No. 2 Mine, Boltz, Pa., for the second consecutive year is winner of the N'ortli Central District Safety Association first-aid meet held recently at Indiana, Pa. The victors compiled a winning 98.65 percentage in sohing four problems and were awarded a plaque and $350. Conemaugh Mine of Conemaugh Mining Co. was runnerup with a 98.25-plus percentage. The team received a trophy and S210. A fraction of a percentage point behind in third place was Lucerne Mine of Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Co. Keystone 1\Iine. a second Imperial entcy,,finished fourth, 98.20 plus, and R. &. P. Coai Co/s Kent No. 8 mine placed fifth by a fraction of a perceritag·e point. Third-place team members shared $175 and safety flashligh t : fourth place received $140 and safety hats, and fifth, S105 and flashiights, . ._ Prizes were awarded by Lewis E. Evans, Ebensbm·g, deputy · secretary of Pennsylvania Department of Mines & l\Iineral Indus tries, and John GIW:zon!, President of Un/WA District 2. New Illinois Prison To Use Coal A coal burning power plant will be installed· at the new Fcd-eral penitentiary at Crab Orchard, Ill., it was annoWtced by Rep. Kenneth J. Gray (D., Ill.). .~ Gray said President John L. Lerois of ·t he UillJY A a11d s "e ·aE eoal companies had requested his assistance in contacting th~ ~ U. S. Bureau of Prisons in behalf of coal. "With billions of tons of Southern Illinois coal surroundin!; the new prison," Gray said, "it is imperative that we set an x ample to others by using this important fuel.'' Coal was found tn..J~_c;.ove1·a] thausn.nd..dnUars cbean(lr n :ve,::tn.c!lR_n...flu.U...~nu=-iMCt _ �Page 16 September· I, 1959 / United lVline f!Vorkers Journal Holm.es C >l .. .. ·:_;: ·,~~ j WILLIAl\I HENRY LOVEDAY-L. U. 5958, District 17, Amherst Coal Co., Lundale, W. Va., for 61 years · without a. lost-fi:me injury. HENRY G. AKINS-l\'line foreman, Gorgas Coal l\iine, Alabama. Power Co., Gorgas, Ala., for supervising 18 men who worked 432,000 man-how·s without a lost-time injury. JOSEPH Zll,LINCIK-L. U. 5813, District 17, Island Creek Coal Co., Holden, \V. Va., for 40 years without a lost-time injury. JOHN B. HUGHES-Union Pacific Coal Co., Roel, S prings, ,vyo., for 40 years without a lost-tin1e accident. ililrt~~i11 t~~:~r:~~:;'.:P::y _ · ~ ~{~lP. t!t11~f~;~;:::_...~....:.~~;;....:.:..:.....;..:,:~;..;;~,,..i~ PETER J. WENECK-Safety engineer (retired), Mine No. 72, Bethlehem l\lines Corp., Johnstown, Pa., for 43 years without a lost-time iojary. Ci \ ,,'. .. . . , u. u. MIKE KESELYAii-L. U. 6411, • District 2, Bethlehem Mines Corp., Johnstown, Pa., for 43 years without a lost-time injury. 6411, JOHN HUDY-L. District 2, Betltlehem Mines Corp., Johnstown, Pa., for 47 years without a lost-time injury. JOHN GREDESKY-L. 6411, District 2, Bethlehem Mines Corp., Johnstown, Pa;, for 45 years without a losttun~ ll!j~y_. ICORBEC-.. -1;.:-ht foreman, l\lJne No. 'i2, Ilethlcht>m ~fines Corp., Jolm,,town, Pa., for 4-1 years without a Vi"tANK J. WELTY-L. U. 43 Hi, District 31, Bethlehem Mine,; Co1·p., Ilarraclcvllle, W. Va., for 40 j•rnr,; without a lost- JAMES B. SIDWEi:.L--:-L. U. 4346, District SI, Bethlehem l\fines Corp., Barrackville, \V. Vu.., for 40 years without n. lost- ;:j~~J(,f~~. J}il . ,, A...VDREW Gl\lUCA-Retired tipple forem.nn, ]}llne No. 72, Bethlehem Mines Corp., Johnsto~u, Pa., for 44 years without �-United Mine Workers Journal "-sepiember 1, 1959 Page 17 ·id Week1 Proclaimed in Buff lo, New York CITY OF BUFF.A.LO •OFFICE OF THE M.A.YOR Tu.A.NK A. SEDITA MAYOR -: PRO CLAM A T'I ON:WHEREAS, the City of Buffalo will be host on October 5-7 to the ·nation's outstanding mine rescue and first-aid teams who .will demonstrate their skills before the general public ·at the Memorial Auditarium on the aforesaid days in the 18th National First-Aid and Mine Rescue Contest; and WHEREAS; this demonstration wi!l provide for the people of Buffalo and vicinity an opportunity to witness at first hand the speed and proficiency with which these teams administer first aid to the injured and conduct rescue and recovery work after mine disasters; NOW, 11-IEREFORE, I, FRANK A. SEDITA, Mayor of the City of Buffalo, New York, do herepy proclaim the period of October 5 through October 11, 1959 1 as "FIRST-AID WEEK" in the City of Buffalo and· urge ail citizens and o~ganizations to attend this free National Conte~t and also tc observe the period by giving increased attention to safety, accident prevention and principles of first aid. Done at Buffalo this 18th day of August in the Year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred an~ Fif ine; �Page 18 United Mine Workers Journal September 1~ 1959 / William U. Norwood, Jr., Named Assistant Eathorne Honored By Interior De partment William ~athorne, of Pittsburgh, Pa., who recently retirw Director of Employment Se curi-0-y IBl!lr~aw Robert C. Goodwin, director of, the U, S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Employment Security, has announced the appointment of William U. Norwood, Jr., as assistant director of t he Bureau in charge of t he United States Employment S ervice. Norwood was employment service director of t he Florida Industrial Com.mission. As head of the Employm ent Service, Norwood will be responsible for the coordinat ion and guidance of the employment service activities of the 53 state a nd t errit or ial employment security agencies which administer t he more than 1,800 - local public employment offices across the nation. Since completing his gra duate st udy in business administration at the University of Florida in 1938, Norwood h as spent his entire career in employment securit y work, except fo r t hat time spent in military service. Beginning in June 1,938 as a st atis tician \.vith the Florida Indus trial Commission, he h as served r espectively as the commission's chief of reports and a nalysis, director of unemployment compensation, and, more recently, employment service director. In 1952, he was granted a four -mon t h leave of absence from the Florida Commission to come t o Washington , D. C. to serve as chief of unemployment compensation fo r veterans at the Bureau of Employment Security. Norwood is immediate past president of the Interstat e Conference of Employment Security Agencies, an organization in which he has been active for many years. As the new assistant director of the Bur eau of Employment Security, Norwood succeeds Arthur W. Motley, whose appointment as director of the U. S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor 1 Standards was announced later. Norwood was born in Ocala, Fla. His undergraduate and postgraduate work was taken at the University of Florida. He is a yeteran of World War II and saw service with the Army in the Southwest Pacific area. • °Labor Baiters Also After Farm Co-ops James G. Patton, president of the National' Farmers Unjon, has denounced the "right-to-work" movement for soliciting funds from farmer cooperatives to support passage of anti-collective bargaining laws. Patton charged that the "right-to-work" fund solicitors "are the same people who consistently have tried to destroy farmer cooperatives." • "Now these people who have worked for years against the best interests of the farmer have the gall to ask the farmer to help them destroy the farmers' best market-organized labor," Patton said. 9(, /, j , .::~ '.);' • t--:l~- ,_. SAFETY AWARD WINNERS-Four employes of the Federal No. 1 Mine of Eastern Gas & Fuel Associates at Grant Town. W. Va., Local Union 404'1, District SI, received citations from the Joseph A. Holmea Safety Auoclatlon for worklnar a total of 1'1lS yean without a la.t-tfme LDJury. The certUlcatea were presented to the men by William Laird, mine nperlntendent, and Ben F. Powell, Jr., safety Inspector at the mine. Lett to right are Powell, bed ears: ceni anJ.la.k. ea,rsJ__llh_fill.X J. from the Bureau of Mines, has been honored with the Dep;i?-£ment of the Interior's Meritorious Service Award and Silver Medal, the Department announced recently at Washington , D. C. ~athoz:ne's award is in recognition of 16 years' except ional service with the Bureau, first in the wartime Mineral Production Security Division, and later in safety work. From the summer of 1942 until his t ransfer to the Central Experiment Station at Pittsburgh in the fall of 1949 he was stationed at Albany, N. Y. , where he headed t he Bu;eau's H ealth and Safety subdistrict office for five years. Since 1949, Eathorne has been best k~own throughout the Northeast for his demonstrations and lectures on "The Magic of Fi.re" -and "Static Elect ricity," which were in such demand by safet y societies, conventions, institute and industrial execu tives' meeting;,, and fi re-prevent ion organiza tions that t hey r equired most of his time. His sense of showmanship and his cont inuing study of his subjects enhanced the value of his work, t he Burea u said. H e was especially adept at tailoring his presen ta tion to the needs and mood of a particular audience. Before jo1ning the Bureau, Eathorne, a graduate of the Camborne School of Mines, England, was an engineer e.ight years in the South African gold fields and 16 years for t he Anaconda Copper Mining Co. at Butte, Mont. .; favorable Ruling For Workers In Pennsyivani(ll HARRISBURG, P a. (PAl)-Work ers who are forced to retire by their employers and pregnant women who are compelled 1:o quit their jobs by their employers are bot h eligible for unemployment compensation in Pennsylvania under a r uling of the state's supreme court. The court took the position 'that both groups were "willing and able to work" and that therefor e ther e was no j ustification for cutting them off from jobless benefits so long as t hey remained in the labor market. Under the rulings, thousands of pensioners who were fo rced to retire by company regulations; will be eligible for a m aximum of $35 a week for 30 weeks following their "retirement ." Under present law women are entitled to unemployment compensation up to 7.5 months of pregnancy. The H ershey Chocolate Co. requires. employes to leave work after five mont hs of pregnancy. The Court held that an individual requi rement of t his sort could not supersede state law. HOLMES AWARDS-Here are two more of the supervisory employes at coal mines of U. S. Steel's Tennessee Coal & Iron Division who received Joseph A. Holmes Safety Association awards for leading their crews to outstanding safety records. They are Richard E. Mullen (left), general maintenance' foreman at Ham.llton, and Clyde O. Turner, mine foreman at Hamllto~. Mullen's award was "for supervising a crew of 26 men who worked 272,883 man-hours without a lost-time Injury in the Short Creek and Hamilton underground coal mines from December 16, 1954, through December 81, 19158, and continuing." Turner's award was ''for supervialng a crew of 1'78 QleD. who worked 886,669 man-hours without a Iost-tlmo lnJory on the day shift In ·the Hamilton underuound coal mfne from Se tember 20 105'1, through December ' �' September I, 1959 United Mine Workers Journal ~age 19 '\ilasting Powder and Safety Lights oal Through the Centurie EDITOR'S NOTE: On September 1, 19S8, the Journal initiated a series of articles on the history of coal, illustrating how that fuel has modernized industrial life. The first 11 articles carried the story from the earliest historical references to coal down to the impact of the newly invented steam engine on •the English coal industry. Part 12, Blasting Powder and Safety Lights, described later steps toward modernfzation dnd safetr, in Great Britain, : By Alden Todd Journal Correspo11dent Although British .coal mining in volume and in technique was the world's leader for a long time, British min. ers were slower than those on the continent of Europe to substitute blasting powder for the foil of pick, wedge, hammer and shovel. Englishmen used gunpowder in battle as early as the seige of Honfleur in 1415, during the Hundred Years War against France. ·B ut they did not adapt it to coal mining until more than two centuries afterward . . De~pite its danger, blasting was recognized as a great laborsaver. Thomas Wilson of Newcastle-on-Tyne, the dialect poet and coal mining buff, contrasted the old, toilsome method of wedging to the new method of getting coal by blasting in this passage from his long poem '"rhe Pitman's Pay," published in 1828: "Here aging have the old langsyners (old-timers) Many a weary, warkin' (aching) byen (being), •Now .unknown t6 coal;Y 'lyhers, All bein' maul-and-wedge work then. "I've bray'd (pounded) for hours at woody coal, .• Wi' arms 'most droppin' from the shoulder; But now they just pop (fire) in a hole And flap (blow) her down at once wi' powder." While coal mining technique progressed in many ways through the centuries, the lighting of coal mines was just about as crude in 1800 as in 1400-except that . the cand.les spluttered less. The deeper and more extensively coal mines were driven, the greater became the need for light. Greater, as well, became the dangers from accumulated explosive gas; since miners continued to ·work with open-flame oil lamps and with candles in even the most gassy pits. There are reports that some miners experimented with putrefying fish as a form of safety light, but the soft glow Jrom the phosphorus produced by the decaying flesh was insufficient for the job. As a safety light, it smelled in more ways than one. The first known attempt at a mechanical safety ligqt: was the so-called ''flint and steel mill" invented by one Carlyle Spedding sothewhere between 1730 and 1750. This was a device hun " around the ne<:k of a 'boy helper, who would stick close to a work~ ing rttiner and turn the mill crank, causing an abrasive steel wheel to scrape_against a p~ece of .flint and send out a shower of sparks. The fact that explosives ,could be put to work as a blasting agent, r ather than rnere1y to propel cannon and musket balls, occurred to a group of political conspirators before it did to coal miners. Hatching the famous Gunpowder Plot in 1605, they hoped to blow up King James I of England and the House, of Lords with one match. To do the job they hid 36 barrels of gunpowder under piles of coal and faggots in the cellars of Westminster Palace. But there was a leak and the plot, instead of the palace, was blown wide open. The hired killer, Guy Fawkes, was caught and Change In Color Indicated Gas executed along with. the rrten who paid him.' It was claimed that the mill · indicated the presence of flamDespite the publicity which th/ Gunpowder Plot brought to e:>..--plosives, coal miners through the rest of the 17th Century mable gas by changes in the color and size of the sparks. But since continued to sink shafts and dig coal by hand. Sometimes when it required an operator for every working miner, unless two men .t hey came up against solid -rock they tried "fire-setting" or an- worked very closely together, and also because six flint and steel pealing. The rock to be removed was heated with fire, then sud- mills would keep one repair man fully occupied, it was hardly denly cooled with water. The rock was cracked by the sudd~n· economical. So m_ihers continued to carry lighted oil lamps, not too difdrop in temperature, and the pieces could then be cleared away with pick and shov~l. It was a slow method, but it worked after a ferent from those which lighted ancient Greece and Rome or c_a ndles jammed into a wad of clay which served as the hoider fashion. Long before this time, metal miners around Chemnitz. in Hun- wherever a candle might be placed in the mine. The big breakthrough in coa1 mine lighting was the indirect gary and in the nearby German principalities had learned the result of the terrible Felling Colliery explosion, near GatesheadVa.Jue of gunpowder in mining. A Chemnitz miner named Gaspar Weindl set off the first recorded demolition in mining history, on-Tyne, which in May 1812 took 92 lives. This was the greatin the late 1500's. About a century later, English coal operators est disaster on record. A group of mining men, combining with imported a number of skilled German metal miners, and it is clergymen and writers outside the industry, resolved that some'probable that some of these men brought blasting know-how to thing must be done to protect human life against gas explosi ns in the coal mines set off by open-flame lights. They appealed for England with .them. • The first bore holes for blasting were cut with earth-augers, help to Humphrey Davy, a distinguished young chemist, who about three inches in diameter, and were c1osed with a wooden ~agerly accepted the challenge. Working with corked bottles of gas shipped to him from the plug called a "Shooting plug." The English were quick to improve their methods, and by the 1680's they were drilling smaller, rttore mines, Davy in 1815 produced his first safety lamp, in which an manageable bore holes in shaft sinking, and were tamping charges oil flame was protected by a tall chimney of wire screening. The with clay. But· there is almost no record of blasting to bring' down •1amp admitted alr for combustion, but to a great extent prevented an exploslve mixture of gas· and air from coming into coal in British mines until the early 1800's. contact with the flame. Other improved models of the D.ivy Poor ventilation was one obstacle; the danger of gas arlother, • There was also the lack of a reliable time fuse. One early blast- safety lamp appeared in succeeding years. Many other inventors and engineers were working on safctv ing method was to tamp clay around a long needle, which was withdrawn and replaced with a series of straws filled with lamps at this same time. Among them was the ex-miner and powaer. At the far end was fixed a piece of "touch paper," which · railway locomotive inventor, George Stephenson, who produced was supposed to burn for 30 seconds. • But instructions in this a safety lamp similar to Davy's. But Davy is generally credil\!d risky trade in the early days usually, wound up with the warning to with ·h aving brought the first successful model to completion. Within a year, in 1816, it was in general use in Bdtish coal mine:;. the miner to "run as fast as possible.," Although the Davy safety lamp by no means soh-cd all lighting It is Interesting to note that .Benjamin Frank.Jin, pioneer in electricity, as early as 1751 suggested the idea of safely lighting problems it was such an improvement over what preced ' d it th!!t explosive charges at a distance by electric spark. But neither th~ inventor was showered with thanks, and gifts, from coa t •he nor anyone else pursued this notion at the time, and it was operators and workers alike. To top it all _he was kni htcd by not until 1831 that William Bickford of TucklngmUl, in Corn- the Cro~-a real ~on?r for one who start~ off as a pill roller's • • 11 ...... ~ ..... n~ , n+h + nnnrl c-nFotu -F11c.-o t- l'nneoic-torl nl rAn 1, rnAt hu ni nr,I nf"Mn,• f".,.nn,,, ...__ �United Mine Workers Journal Page 20 I The R~v. E. s. Smith I l,;:::::;::;;:::;=:=;:::==;:;F::::.o::;::u::;:r;::;::::::11:;::::r::::: 1n;;:;o::;;is:::;:::::O;::::;:l;::::;:d::::::-T :::;i;::::m :=e=r=s=== = The Rev. Edward S. Smith died recently of a heart attack while at work in a coal mine at Besoco, W . . Va. He was a member of UJJIJV A Local Unio11 6003, District 29. l\'1r. Smith is survived by his widow, three sons; two daughters, five brothers, and two sisters. Anton Yunk: 'Thanks' Anton Yunk, of Byesville, Ohio, writes: "I want to thank President John L. Lewis and·the UJJIJVA Welfare and Retirement Fund for -the pension and medical care received while I was in the hospital. I had a very bad heart attack three years ago, and last month I had a serious operation, and I want to thank God that I belonged to Local Union 5tJ97, District 6." khardson ~ lauds ll.ewos 'ii'es~imony Joseph E . Holden, of Carni, Ill., is a loyal mem ber of UIII WA Loe.a l Union 9939, Dis• trict 12. He writes: "I am sure I speak the sentimen ts of all the members of the UMW A when I say Fred Smith John Brown thank God for President John. Joint !rlurphy David Hill L. L ewis and the UJIIIV Journal. When the picture above was taken in 1958, the veteran UMWA It was only through the annals members shown had a total age of 320 years-an average of 80- of the Jou rnal that we were and all four had belonged to the UMWA for more than 50 years. . able to get the full t exi: of Since the picture was taken, John Brown was killed in an auto- ' President Lewis' testimony bemobile accident. At the time of his death he was 72 and had fore the House Committee on been a member of the UMWA for more than 53 years. He had Education and L abor concernalso belonged for six years to the Durham llfiners Association of ing the so-called labor reform England before emigrating to t~e United States. bill. The opening statement of Fred Smith, 79, is a veteran of 63 years of membership in the P resident Lewis was a masterUMWA. He started work as a bellows boy and served in the piece of oratory and logic, and Anny during the Spanish-American War. presented t he attitude of memJohn Murphy, 82, has belonged to the UMWA for 51 years bers of t he UMWA fa iriy and which he joined after 20 years as a member of the Durh~ squarely to the Committee.'' Miners Association of England. Holden adds: "I had the • David Hill is 90 and has belonged to the UMWA for 51 years pleasur e of viewing P r esident and for 27 years belonged to the Northcumberland Miners Union Lewis on t he television program in England. In 1946 he was crowned ''King Coal" representing 111eet t he P1·ess. I am sure his the Illinois coal industry. ' appearance on this program was . All four of the old-timers were residents of Southern Illinois inspiring and beneficial to all and loyal members of UilfWA District 12. members of organized labor." Holden joined the UMWA 53 years ago and is s t ill a member Fate Of A Miner in good standing, having retired in December 1950. When Isaac P. Fulks, safety committee chairman of Local Union 1098, District 28, Moss No. 2 Mine, Clinc)tfleld Coal Co., Dante, Va., testified recently before the Senate labor subcommittee in support of legislation to bring small mines under mandatory Federal safety provisions, he told the Senators: "~ hauled my brother out of a coal mine after he was killed by a roof fall, and that rock which fell on him carried many chalk marks condemning it. These marks -were made by a state in!,pector. If_ we ~ad had Federal laws and Federal inspectors, I do not think this would have happened. This is just one case of many ... that I know about, and I have worked in both small and large mines." The following poem by Fulks is about his brother's death in 1936: I used to work in No. 5 coal ... It was hard to make a livblg in that dark, dark hole. I worked at this mine, and my four brothers, too, Until one morning we heard bad news. It was about my brother who was pulling coalHe was running a motor in that dark, dark hole. It was in the morning about eight o'clock, He was killed on that motor by a falling rock. COAL AUGERS - Support this mailbox In Lakeland, Fla. It belongs to a former coal miner, B. H. Bad~dale, who ls Isaac Isaac Richardson, of Lilly Mount, W. Va., was killed recently in a m ine accident at the Raleigh ' and Wyomi ng Mine at Glen Rogers. He was a member of the Church of God and of UJIIIVA Local Union 600tJ, District 29. He is survived by his widow, hi s mother, eight sons, six daughters, three brothers, and four sisters. Guiliano Retires Phillip Guiliano, for 30 years recording secretary of UMWA Local Union 7499, District 6, :recently retired. . The new recording secretary, Paul DeAngelo, writes to say that the following letter was sent to Guiliano on his retirement: 'We, the officers and members of Local Union 7499, UMWA, No. 6 Colliery, accept your resignation 'but reluctan t ly.' Your 30 or more years of kind, courteous and ·efficient service to this Local Union for which you served proficiently has not gone unnoticed. In appreciation, the officers and . members at the last meeting gave you a rising vote of thanks and wish you Godspeed and unlimited success in your new field of endeavor." September 1, 10.J This rock that fell in the dar1c Was condemned by the inspector with chalk marks, If he had been told of this dangerous place, He would have lived longer to fill h1s place. It was in a section they called 18 Left Where he made his last ~!,_or his family and self. t @~:;;-.-.. l®:r.~ »- ..~""i)l~..1~~~~~~:{~~~~'S >'-;.:t:a!\~~..:..f.?t ~~ --~ ~~ JAMES R. McKAY-Of Piney Vlew, W. Va., ls in hls 76th year and ls a retlied member of 1JMWA Local Union 5821, District 29. He worked In the mines for more than half u. century and ''knows and appreciates the wonderful things the �~ptember 1, 1959 k. William Brasfield William Brasfield, a retired member of UWJVA Local U11io11 5832, District 20, died recently at the age of 69. At the t im e of his death he .was r ecordi ng. secretary of his Local Union a nd a member of the Graysvill e (Ala .) Baptist Church, a nd a lso a m ember of the Ci ty ou ncil of Graysville. The officer of L ocal Union 5832' have written t he Journal a · letter , hich says that "he has been a member of Local lJn ion 5 32 ever since t he organ ization , as set up in Alabama." 'Woo+edl ~Uil ldl rf o u9~11i' Anthony Broi II of Seth, V/. Va., is a 77-year-old, retired veter an of lhe coal mi nes who writes that he worked and fou ght for the Union in the old days. He states: " ow we have the U UI VA strong and healthy. Let's k eep it t hat way. The Journal is a welcome visitor in my home, brings the news of good thi ngs our Union ,is accomplishi ng t h r o u g h its mighty power and the work of our grea t leader , John L. Lewis." Mr.' Bennett James Bennett, of Oak Creek, Colo., died recently at the age of 85. Born in Scotland, he was a veteran of 64 years in the coal mini1;1g industry and had lived in Routt County, Colo., for 45 years. He was a qiember of UMWA Local Union 6778, DiBtrict 15. His family writes "to thank lhe UAHVA Welfare and Retirement Fu11cl, for the help it ave durin his life and after United Mine Worke.rs Journal a e . N. Y. Building Owner Learns Hard Way I· J. Blair Shaffer Gas Is Expensive, Anthracite .Is The Best ._ ___________, . i,,:j ~rr ~:--i3.!< 1 .-<;;;J ~%! . . ·;: ·) ,UfCtiU~: •; : ·y,i,;~~~ ::v1.1t;J BACK TO COAL-Relnstalllng anthracite grates under the furnace holler at 2102 Eighth Avenue, Ne,v York City, are Leon•ard R. Arcuri (left) and William Freedman of the Stokes Coa-1 & Oil Oo. The owner of the bullcllng, Herbert Strauss, learned the hnrd way that anthracite . is cheaper and more efficient than n'.atural gas. Immediate steps should be taken by the City of New York to protect investment property owners against improper estimates· of heating and hot water fuel costs, according to Michael Delaney, executive vice president of Stokes Coal & Oil Co. "Owners of cold water flats housing ten or more families must install heat by November 1, 1959," said Delaney. "Since this represents a sizeable investment, the building owner is entitled to the protection of accurate estimates before selecting the fuel. "A recent incident in our company will serve to illustrate my point,'' he continued. "One of our customers, Herbert Strauss, owns a building at 2102 Eighth Avenue. The four-story building houses 13 families and two stores in a 25-foot by 85-foot structure ex'1)osed only front and rear. Utility company engineers estimated the annual cost for heat and hot water for the 13 families at approximately $1,300 for an entire year. "After one year's experience and $1,980 worth of fuel bills, Strauss called on us to remove the gas burner and install grates for burning No. 1 buckwheat anthracite," said Delaney. The building is one of several thousand in New York City which are called "cold-water flats," Delaney pointed out. This means there was no central heat in the building prior to the installation of the present heating system'. A building owner is required by law to install the system prior to November 1, 1959. ,The New York State Rent Commission, which controls rents in New York City, provides the building owner with rent increases for heat and hot water services. In this manner, building owners can recover the capital cost of installing the heat and hot water !;ystem. However, the law does not permit the owner to charge more rent for a · gas-heated building than one which is heated by coal. • Strauss decided that he would be unlikely to recover the cost since the high gas bU!s were wiping out his permissible increases. Facetl with this dilemma, Strauss consulted Stokes Coal & Oil Co. of N.Y. William Maher of the sales department then worked out an estimate of the savings which No. 1 buckwheat anthracite could make. Maher calculated that 52 tons of No. 1 buckwheat anthracite per year would provide all 1;3 families wjth heat and hot water. Based on current fuel prices, this means that anthracite would do the job for $988, or a saving of $1,0Q0 per year. Divided among the 13 families it means that heat and hot water would be provided for each family at $76 per year with anthracite, compared with $152.30 per family per year with gas. Delaney concluded, "Here is a case of where the heating cost estimate was 'out of line' and created a real hardship for the owner. There ls no other way to account for the almost $700 per year difference between actual cost and the estlmnte. But one thing is sure; it costs less than half ns much to heat with buckwheat anthracite in New York than it docs with natural Mrs. J. Blair Shaffer, of Knox Dale, Pa., has written UiJIWA President .Tohn L. [.,eicis that her husband, a miner, passed away in January 1959 and "is not here to read the Journal any longer." She adds: ''He worked in the mines close to 50 years, and I am thankful to you for having started the UMWA Welfare and Retirement Fund as I would be left very badly off had it not been for the Union . . . P.S. I also enjoy the Journal and the recipes are very good and I use a lot of them.'' Lost Husband, Dad Mrs. H. A. Stinson, of Home, Pa, has written the Journal to say "John L. Lewis certainly deserved the utmost gratitude and appreciation, also the UMWA Welfare and Retirement Fund to which I greatly express my deepest gratitud:? and appreciation for the benefits and medical care received by my late husband, Harry Stinson, who passed away on February 19." Mr. Stinson was a member of Local Union 599, District 2. Mrs. Stinson also writes that her father was killed 50 yea.rs ago in the Kehrun m·ne explosion which occurred on June 22, 1909. She says, "It is a tragedy that will li\·e foreyer in my memory." I· Paul P. Basile ~-.-.- · ··- -, . . . l illr. and tllrs. Basile Paul Pete Basile of La Belle. Pa .. for 25 years a member of Utl/WA Local Union .Ji91, District I, died recently. He w 45 years of age. Mr. Basile is sur\"i\"cd by hi · widow, l\lrs. Jennie Rossini Basile; a son, J;>aul, J1·., and a daughter, Rosalie JC'an. a t home; four brothers nnd three sisters. He is also sw"\·h·ed by his father who is a pens ione1· of the {T.UJJ'..t Welfare and Re- �Page 22 Marc MacEwen United LV/i11e T,Vorkers Journal \UlllfC[W'll D r\ W lfl!il:~ ~r REl"IM f rlMH)EO 0 YOU WERE FORCED TO ATTEND C0MPANY''SAFETY" I N FOilJlA TION WA..,'-'TI:: D She asks the J o u r n a l to "please express by thanks to John L. Lewis, and the U111JVA Welfare and Retirement Fund for the wonderful care they . gave my father during his illness and long hospitalization, as well as for his pension which enabled him to keep his own home until the death of my mother a year ago." She concludes: "We shall always be grateful for the efforts made on behalf of miners everywhere." Noah Jlo llie s Us 94 Noah Jon es, ;,i veteran of 72 yea rs of hard work in America's coa l m ines, celebrated hi s 94th birthday t his year. He has been a m ember of U ii! If ,'1 District 14 during a ll of h is mining career and has spent most o( his l ife in and around Be\ ier, Mo. Early in his life he worked in Illinois mines, particularly in t hose around Bra idwood, Ca nton, and Springfi eld, a nd also has worked in K ansas. His wife, who died in 1956, had been m arried to him 67 years at"the time of h er death. J ones is now living wit h his son, E rnest, in Bevier . First Pension Ch~ck Radosevich is a member of Local Union 8051, Distric~ · 12. Fund Paid Bills Ira Collins, of Barnesville, Ga, is a retired member of UJIIJVA Local Union 6281, District 30, and a veteran of 40 years in the pits. He writes the Journal "to e.x press my gratitude to the UJIJJVA Welfare and Retirement Fund for the hospital and medical care they provided during two major operations for my wife and me which we could not have had if the UMWA had not taken care of us." fund Massachuse~'is · iwn~ ~ ir !La~~ s ~ @ m@~ i c Anthracite g ©JM D~M fHi1'b' !r@ir bl'1@ s-G- !Ee @~@ my The acceptance of modern anthracite equipment for domestic heating is being demonst rated in ·w orcester , Mass. , where a 130-M Anthratube was installed in a $30,000 custom-built , model home. The builder; Alfred A. DeFalco, says he chose the Ant hratube because "anyone who w ants t he most economical and the most satisfactory heat can find it in the automatic Anthratube." DeFalco went on to say that he expects to heat the eight-room house cwith 6.5 tons of anthracite pea coal This includes hot water. This means that the owner will spend $155 a year for heat and hot water, which is $90 less than the ne,xt ·1owest priced automatic fuel at prevailing fuel prices. Considered over a 20-year period, which is the normal life of a mortgage, a home owner will save approximately $1,800. This swn could be applied to a more rapid amortization of the mortgage or substantial property improvements. According to DeFalco, the Anthratube is one of the most efficient heating units on the market. By utilizing heat that normally is lost up the stack, operating efficiency has been raised to 86 percent. Another -advantage of the Anthratube, adds DeFalco, is 6:leanliness. Since the unit operates on an induced draft, air and dust from the ashes are constantly drawn inwards. A "cyclone separator" performs a double action of absorbing heat and separating fly ash from flue gases. Fly ash is dropped to the grate, from where it falls into the ash receptacle which is completely enclosed in the base of the unit. DeFalco plans to install other Anthratube units in homes which are now in the planning stage. Dist. 50 Rep. Andrew Yevcak SIX-~OLD - John L. Lewis Delaney ls named for the Ul\lWA's • President and was - born OD his birthday, February 12. Ills father, Clarence Dea member of m1WA V Tn ro rm nllon wnn lcd concerning t he wheren bout s o r L nwrence, L uthe r. Cleo a nd Ru bby Clnuse ; believed to be liv ing somewhere In the co I fi elds. Ad d ress , Cra ig Clnuse, 337 Ro s Ave., Lexington , K y. I nfonnn tlon wa n ted concerni ng \ he wherea bouts or A . J . or J nck Spnuld !ng; la st heard o r !lvlng In I<erm,t, W. Vn . Address Albert Go re. Pres. , L. u. 9177, Ui\IWA. , Unecdo, \\ . v:i. trict z. us." ,rl Rank And rme. /VlEE71NGSONYOUROWNTtME lllarc JllacEwen, a veteran of 54 years in the coal mines, died recently at his daughter's home in Youngstown, . 0 hi o . . His d a u g h t e r , Mrs. Robert H. O'Neal, writes that her father was a r e t i re d member of UJIIJVA Local Union 6411, Dis- lllr. and lllrs. Joseph Radosevich, of St. David, m, write to express their appreciation to President John L. Lewis and the UJIIWA Welfare and Retirement Fund "for the feeling of security we felt when his first pension check arrived." They continue: ''We would like to say 'God bless John L. Lewis' for all he has done for S eptember 1, l!l;'ru Andrew J. Yevcak, field representative for U JIIW A District 50, died recently in the Washington, Pa., Hospital. He was 52. Born in Lansford, Pa., Mr. Yevcak worked in the anthracite 'mines for 32 years before going to work for District 50 in Buffalo, N.Y. l\1rs. Ma rgaret Camba, of R aton , N . Mex., writes ''a few lines of appreciat ion and t hanks to the U ill IV A JI' elf are and R e, tirement Fimcl for its help in taking care of our hospital and medical bills du ring my recent stay in the hospital." Mrs . Comba's husband is a retired District 15 coal miner who worked for 45 years in the coal industry. • DONNA LEA LEASE-ls the daughter of John Lease, District 2 bonrd member, and has completed her junior year at the University of Pittsburgh. She is majoring in chemistry nnd plans to enter tho ~eld of coal / �S~mber 1, 1959 • Pointed Page 23 'United Mine Workers Journal I Road Hogs Some sales t alks are like steer horns-a • Awake To Your Dreams While we had trouble with hogs in the point here, a point there, and a lot of bull ' - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 streets in the old days, they didn't drive in the mi ddl e.- Circle Arrow Retailer. Awake, 0 Labor, to your dreams, automobiles.-Kay Dee in ACI B ulletin. Awake to yqur powers, 1rhe Aging Process The strength of your hc).nds, And They Shall Multiply W hile none of us is getting any younger, Many hands calloused to the tips of the • The Wall S treet Journal says subsidy when you quit getting any older-let's face fingers, "fa a time-tested method of making two it, Buster, you 're dead. The strength of your shoulders, bruised and~ problems grow where there was one be~ ' - W ynn Gu lden in ACI Bulletin. - black, fore." Many shoulders, Broad to the load. Civi!iza~ion Add Daffynitions Awake, 0 Labor, t o your dreams . . . Someone once asked the former Prince Sleep not as guards Dry Dock: A physician on the waterof ·w ales, "\Vhat is your idea of civiliza- Drugged at the gates of your triumphs, wagon. tion ?" • But watch for false reapers First l'tfate: The one whose- alimony "It's a good idea," replied the prince. Who steal into your acres keeps you broke. To burn your graio by night, Intracoastal Waterway: The main reason "Someone ought to s tart it." why most southbound amateur yachtsmen Who break boldly into your groves To spoil fruits swoll en don't end up in Ireland. Oh, Well With the ripeness of your toil. T he eigh -yea r -old said: "Watch. me, - Wes ton McDaniel, N ew York, N. Y. TV Survey daddy," as he tossed up a ball and swung at it with a bat. He missed it, so he tried When the man answered his telephone There's· Always A Poet agai n. Anothe1· m iss brought another try one evening, a woman asked him if he and a t h ird miss. Then he turned and had his television set on. He replied that Bob Howe recalls a piquant episode dursaid : "See wh at a good pitcher I am." he did, and the caller asked if anyone ing the First World War at Old Ben No. 8, then and for many years after one of the else '"'.as in the room. "Yes," he replied, "my wife is." The surveyor then asked, biggest producing mines in southern IlEarly Bird H e arrived at the office early and bleary. linois. There was a huge wartime demand "What are you listening to?" - "My wife," "You look all in," ~ said the janitor. for coal, of course, and pressure was on for he answered_. every possible ton of production. " 'What's t he trouble? " • Efforts on the part of management and "Well , I p layed poker last night and Doldrums didn't get home until almost daylight," ex- the mine committee to induce miners to Things were quiet at the police station. plained t he tired one. "I was just undress- stay at· their working places until quitting One offi~er yawned and complained: "What time were to no avail-many still finished ing when my wife woke up and said 'Aren't a dull week! No burglaries,. no fights, no you getting up early?' So, rather than start up and went home early. Men and coal murders. If this keeps up, they'll be laying _ w ere hoisted on the same cage, and every an argument, I pu t on my clothes and came time the cage brought up a load of men, us off." down t o the office." "Don't worry, Murphy," said the chief. so much coal tonnage was displaced and "Something's bound to happen. I've still delayed at the bottom. Finally, the mine Biographical Note . superintendent, a man named •Dunne, in got faith in human nature." An engagingly frank new member • of desperation issued an order that, except in Congress, Rep. Ken. Bechler (D., W. Va.) cases of injury . or illi1ess, men would be Taken From It in his official biography in the Congres- hoisted only at .12 noon and at 4 o'clock Old George is a Scot and an ex-miner. sional Directory noted that formerly he when tlie shift ended. Since the Local Union Not long ago, when I called on him in served as special assistant to President had an agreement with management that Glasgow, the conversation turned to the Truman, adding: "Remained at ithe White miners ready to leave before the end of the death of one of his cronies. House under President Eisenhower but was shift would be hoisted at 9:30 in the morn"I'm· told that Harry left $15,000," I refired in April 1953. . . ." On his official . ing and 2 in the afternoon, the superinmarked admiringly. House of Representatives letterhead the tendent's decree caused a sensation. '.'That he didn't!" George said. freshman congressman listed his t:,vo crssist- - Early the next afternoon a loaded car I expressed surprise. ants and two staff secretaries with this line reached the surface with this inscription: "Harry left no money," he went on. in boldface type underneath : "Plus Any "I'll have .yo1l know, 1111·. Dllnn e, "He was taken from it." Volunteer Hel_p We Can Get." That with this car my day is don e. -D. Jll. .Dollald in the Rcado-'s Digest. If you don't l.ike my worlc or poem, Yo1t can go to hell, I'm, going home!" Adams vs. Jefferson? Democracy There is another facet to this episode. We have it on the authority of Ben The first-grade children in a Raleigh, man had been stationed in the manway A Lucien Burman that the Kentucky mounN. C., school were ha,ing a wonderful time taineers always know in advance (and to find out from each •miner his reason without any polls) who is going to be elect- for leaving early. Some of the reasons playing with a stray cat. After a while ed President. How? Why, simply by given were profane, some hwnorous, but one little lad asked the teacher if it was a which candidate has · the longest name. It most of the men indicated they were going boy cat or a girl cat. Not \\ishing to get proves out, too: Eisenhower over Steven- home early because they were "all skinned into that particular subject, she said that son, Truman over Dewey (obviously close), up," meaning they had loaded all their she didn't belie\>e she could tell. "I knowRoosevelt over ·Dewey (as well as over coal and had nothing morC! to do. The how we can find out," said the boy. "All right," said the teacher, resigning Willkie, Landon and Hoover), Hoover over legitimate answers were sent up to the suSmith, Coolidge over Davis and Harding perintendent's office where his· secretary herself to the ine\'itablc. "How can w~ • find out?" over Cox. When you get back to Wilson compiled a report. This young lady, un"We can Yote," said th~ child.-Sn m and Hughes, of course, it was terribly close familiar with mining vern:tcular, duly noted -six letters each.-Gleveland A111ory fa in the report that most of the men were Ragan fo Ralt'igh, N. C., Nt!ll'.<i and Ol1- a �Page 24 Sept,ember 1, 1.,C){i9 United Mine Workers Jour~al • I • Serve Fresh Tomatoes in A ll Manner of Dish~" By Margaret Moran ~ (;) , Add .T omatoes ·To Tomatoes, red, ripe, and fresh Meat Stand-;Bys' from summer vines . . . tomaAdd one cup fresh or canned toes green for pies, pickles, and tomatoes to 1 ½ J.>Oi.mds groun'd other good dishes after the first meat for a meat loaf with your frost of fall . . . tomatoes for favorite seasonings. Us<:- about \'. winter and early spring "put one cup soft bread crumbs as a up" plain or in juice, catsup, binder. I • chili sauce, relishes, marmaFor extra fl avor and moistlades. Around the calendar, to,_ ness in ground meat patties, matoes add their special. note add ¾ cup fresh tomatoes t o of bright color, tempting flavor, one.pound ground beef. Add ½ and vitamin value. cup uncooked, quick-cooking Tomatoes are among the most oats as t he binder. Season. This imp·o rtant sources of vitamin C. combination has a "different" One medium-sized tom.at o flavor and helps s tretch t he one (three to a pound) will give pound of meat t o ser ve six. you nearly half of your day's Pour 2½ cups fresh tomato.es . quota of vitamin C, as well as a over a pot roast t he last hour generous amount of vitamin A,.. of cooking. It makes a deTo get most good from toma~ ,.,= licious gravy, especially if a toes, eat them raw and fresh. ~<:::) clove of garlic and a l_ittle But remember they hold a large thyme are cooked with the ~ · meat. • share of their vitamins even when cooked or canned Ripe ~ j Tomatoes a re "must" for tomatoes keep best in the reSpanish steak. Pour 2½ cups When are y'ou going to get tliose new shoes? frigerator, where the cold stops fresh t o m a t o e s o v e r the the ripening process. browned meat and add chopped Here are some suggestions that you \vill Tomato-Meat Sauce onion and green pepper. Season with salt and pepper. Cook until t ender. • welcome in planning interesting and attracTwo and ½ cups fresh tomatoes, ½ garlic tive menus featuring fresh tomatoes. clove, 1 bay leaf, 3/.~ pound ground beef, ¼ cup chopped onion, ¼ cup minced green 'fomato-Creain Cheese Salad fried Tomatoes pepper, 2 tablespoons fat, 2 tablespoons Peel tomatoes, allowing one for each Slice 6 •medium-sized ripe and green to- flour, 1 teaspoon sugar, if desired, 1 tea- serving. Pface on. plate, blossom end down. Cut in quarters, cutting only to within onematoes about % inch thick. Dip in mix- spoon salt, pepper. Cook together the tomdtoes, garlic, and half inch of bottdm so the sections are ture of ½ cup fine, dry bread crumbs or flour, ½ teaspoon salt, and a little pepper. bay l~af-about 20 minutes. Press through not severed. Spread open carefully, using Cook in a small amount of fat until brown a sieve. Brown the beef, onion, and green the fingers. Fill space between sections on both sides. If desired, dip tomato in pepper in the fat. Blend in the flour. Add with softened cream cheese to which has beaten egg, then in flour or bread crumbs sieved tomatoes, sugar, salt and pepper. been added salt to taste and minced green Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, pepper. Serve on lettuce with mayonnaise, before cooking. Yield: six servings. until thickened Serve hot on cooked spa- cooked or French dressing. ghetti, noodles, or rice. z4 oO . . Spanish Sauce Beef, Tomato, Cabbage Scallop Cook 2 tablespoons chopped onion in 2 . Lima Bean-Tom,ato Casserole tablespoons fat until lightly browned. Blend in 1 tablespoon flour; Add 2½ cups Combine 5 to 6 cups co~ked lima beans fresh tomatoes, ½ cup ·each of chopped with 2 cups thin white sauce and 1 cup celery and green pepper, 1 tablespoon finely grated cheese. Pour into baking chopped parsley, 1 teaspoon . salt, and a dish and place quartered tomatoes cut side little pepper. Cook 15 minutes, stirring down on bean mixture. Bake 111 a moderate frequently. Serve over meat lbaf, cooked oven about 30 minutes or until tomatoes are spaghetti, fried or baked fish, cooked cab- tender. Yield: six servings; bage, or omelet. Jellied Tomato Salad Green Tomato Meat Stew a One pound ground beef or other lean meat, 2 tablespoons fat, ¼ cup chopped onion, 1 cup chopped celery, 2½ cups fresh -tomatoes, 2 teaspoons salt, pepper, 4 cups chopped or coarsely shredded cabbage, 1 cup soft bread crumbs. Brown the meat in fat. Add onion and' celery; cook five minutes. Acid tomatoes, salt, and -pepper; bring to boiling. . Place alternate layers of cabbage and meat mixture in a baking dish. Top with bread crumbs. Balte in a moderate oven abolit 45 minutes. Yield: six serving!l. One tablesppon unflavored gelatirt, ¼ cup One pound beef chuck, cubed, 1 teaspoon cold •water, 2½ cups fresh tomatoes, 1 salt, pepper, 4 , tablespoons flour, 2 table- tablespoon minced onion, ½ smail bay leaf, Green Tomato Pie spoons fat, ½ onion, chopped, 3¼ cups • ½ teaspoon sugar,. ~ii teaspoon salt, pepper, water, 3 medium-sized green tomatoes, 2 1 tablespoon lemon juice, ½ cup finely Six to 8 tneciillin-sized tomatoes, 2 tablecups cubed potatoes, 1½ cups sliced carrots. chopped cucumber, ½ cup finely chopped spoons lemon juice, 1 teaspoon grated lemon Roll meat in mixture of salt, pepper, and celery. or orange rind, % • teaspoon salt, ¼ tea~ 2 tablespoons of the flour. Brown in the Soften gelatin in-the water. Cook toma- spoon cinnamon, ¾. cup sugar, 2 table-· fat. Add onion; cook until lightly broW]1ed. toes, onion and bay leaf-about 20 min- spoons cornstarch, i tablespoon table fat, Pour in 2 cups of the water, cover and sim- utes. Press through a ·sieve and measure pastry. mer about an hour or until meat is almost 1 ¾. cups (if not enough, add boiling water). Wash, remove stem ends, and slice the tender. Add hot, sieved tomatoes to gelatin and tomatoes. Combine with lemo_n juice, lemon Wash, remove stem ends, and qµarter stir until gelatin is dissolved. Season with or orange rind, salt, and cinnamon. Cook the tomatoes; add with potatoes, carrots, sugar, salt, pepper, and lemon juice. Chill. 15 minutes, stirring frequently. Mix sugar and one cup water to the meat. Cover and When gelatin mixture begins to stiffen, acid and cornstarch; add to tomato mixture and cook until vegetables and meat are tender. cucumber and celery. Mix well, Pour lnto cook until ciear, stirring constantly. Add Add more water as needed. Blend remain- a mold or pan rinsed in cold water. Chlll fat. Cool slightly, then pour into a nincing 2 tablespoons flour with the ¼ cup until firm. 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Geological Survey Department of the Interior Washington 25, D. C. (cc: hlr. H. C. Livingstori Mr. I. M. Charles) Dear I1r. Averitt: This wi 11 acknowledge receipt of your letter of March 28, confinning our verbal understanding of March 9 in Washington, that two men, Mr. Henry L. Berryhill and Mr. Donald M. Brown are planning tentatively to arrive by car in Rock Springs Thursday night, May 19. If you will instruct Messrs. Berryhill and Brovm to contact Mr. H. C. Livingston, Vice President-Operation, and Mr. I. M. Charles, Chief Engineer, The Union Pacific Coal Company, Rock Springs, they will cooperate with these gentlemen by furnishing any information from the records of The Union Pacific Coal Company that will be helpful in making a survey of coal reser ves in Wyoming. Mr. Charles will also arrange for work space in our engineering office. Sincerely yours, /s/ I. N. Bayless Mr. Livingston - Mr. Charles: Suggest that you gentlemen cooperate with the representatives of the Geological Survey in estimating coal reserves in Wyoming, by furnishing them any infonnation we have. Will appreciate you gentlemen calling this to my attention for discussion on my next visit to Rock Springs. /s/,INB �UNI TED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Geological Survey Washington 25, D. C. �larch 28, 1949 Mr. I. N. Bayless, President The Union Pacific Coal Company 1416 Dodge Street Omaha 2, Nebraska Dear Mr. Bayless: Confirming our conversation o f March 9 in ifashington, I have arranged to send two geologists to 1,7yoming this spring to gather available coal data from records of mine 02erations, prospecting a.�d drilling, as part of our program to provide a new detailed estimate of coal reserves. The two men, Henry L. Berryhill and Donald M. Brown, both ol' whom a.re familiar with Wyoming coal geology, �re planning tentatively to arrive by car in Rock Springs Thursday night, May 19th, ·. and to call at the Engineer Office of The Union Pacific Coal Company on the following morning. If this plan should be inconvenient, I shall be glad to consider an alternative suggestion. I greatly appreciate your offer to a llow us to examine the coal data in your files, and to provide working space in Rock Springs, and I am sure that with help from you and a few others we can prepare a much improved estimate of coal reserves in Wyoming. I have greatly enjoyed our few brief conversations, and I am sorry that I cannot take advantage of our Wyoming work to pay you a personal visit. Sincerely yours, /s/ Paul Averitt �NO. 2 �j r October l ll 1946 Hro Ea Ho Deney Supervising Engineer ., District H Uo s. Bureau of lli.nes 1600 East Fil·st Sou th 3treet Salt· Lake City l p Utah Dear wr o Denny: i'Je are happy to have your l0tter of date Septeober 26 p 1946, requesting psrmission for �.!!'. john P. Harmon, mi.nin� en6inecr of the Health Division of the Bureau of �.lines D.t Pittsburgh, to visit our proparty and take pictu ·eso .,e .:tr~ al.1c,ys happy to have any member of the Bureau of Mines visit m.u, property and will make available any of our facilities for their infom..ationo v:e shall be 6lad to assist ?\'r o Harmon if he ,,-;ill c2ll at this office upon his arrivtl at Rock Sprinss. Kindest viishes. Yours vecy- truly., HCL :DAP �NEC FI :7:7 ..,. �-...___..___ UNITED STATES I DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR f BUREAU OF MINES . , J;:t46 0: ·- ,_, � l> ;: [ L; \,;,:~:,.r:�_ 1 _ 1 ·�Pi��-•11;1t SAFETY :�• --- __ 1 • -�-- __) SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH AND September 26, 1946 EHD/fgb COAL MINE INSPECTION DIVISIONS Mr o Ho C. Livingston, Vice President Union Pacific Coal Company Rock Springs, Wyoming Dear Mro Livingston: John P o Harmon, mining engineer with the Health Division of the Bureau of Mines at Pittsburgh, has been in Salt Lake City for the past fer1 days in connection with a Bureau exhibit at the Utah State Fair, and for the purpose of taking pictures of better mining conditions and practices for use par.. ticularly to dress up Bureau exhibits at ruining conventions, fairs, and the like� He desires, particularly, to take pictures of good change houses, company hospitals, club houses, and similar subjects having bearing on safety and human relations. I recall that your change house at S tansbury is out-.­ standing, and that cerfa:ihly, of course, your old timer's building is a particular good example of a modern meeting place for employees and officials. Probably some of your lamp-house installations are outstanding as well as some of your fan installations. Perhaps it may be possible to secure pie... tures of your dust control measuresa I would like to have permission for Mr. Harmon to visit _you and secure pictur�s along the lines indicated. He is after pictures of outstanding good practices only. He is taking some pictures around the Arizona copper mines during the next few days and can be in Rock Springs probably on -the afternoon of October 10 prepared to secure some pictures on October 11 and on the 12th should this latter date be convenient� Very truly yours, E. H. DENNY Supervising Engineer District H cc: D. Harrington H. H. Schrenk s. H. Ash J.P. Harmon Files �NO. 1 �Rock Springs - Au�ust 5, 1946 Dr. L. Lo Hirst, U. S. Bureau of 1.l'ines ., nill arive at Onaha on train No. 22., 8:10 p.ra., �hursday., August B, 1946. '.'le presumz he plans to call on you Friday a.m., Au�st 9th. HCL:DAP Ori,�inal ;5ned H. C. LIVINGSTON Par A. L. H. �( , I/ I ) • '/ l I � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Union Pacific Collection Description An account of the resource This collection is made possible in part by a generous grant from Wyoming Humanities. All materials are the property of Union Pacific Coal Company, on long-term loan at Western Wyoming Community College. For usage inquiries, contact the <a href="https://www.uprrmuseum.org">Union Pacific Museum</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource United States Bureau of Miners and US Geological Survey Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource CC BY-NC-ND Date Created Date of creation of the resource. Aug of 1946, Oct of 1946, May of 1949, and Aug of 1950 Subject The topic of the resource Mine Visits, United States Bureau of Mines, United States Geological Survey, 1946, 1949, 1950 Description An account of the resource Letters regarding visits from the United States Bureau of Miners and US Geological Survey. All documents are held together a brass pin. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource I.N. Bayless, Paul Averitt, H.C. Livingston, E.H. Denny Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1-0313 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Union Pacific Coal Co. https://haylibrary.cvlcollections.org/files/original/4f840491fd478320331317eb8e8f3a0b.pdf 975191f289faa85bd9679f069308b7d0 PDF Text Text ������������� Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Union Pacific Collection Description An account of the resource This collection is made possible in part by a generous grant from Wyoming Humanities. All materials are the property of Union Pacific Coal Company, on long-term loan at Western Wyoming Community College. For usage inquiries, contact the <a href="https://www.uprrmuseum.org">Union Pacific Museum</a> Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1-0141 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Union Pacific Coal Co. Title A name given to the resource UPCC Baseball Game Photographs Subject The topic of the resource Photographs taken at a UPCC baseball game. Description An account of the resource 5" x 4" envelope holding 4" x 5" photographs and negative copies Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Union Pacific Coal Co. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Union Pacific Collection Description An account of the resource This collection is made possible in part by a generous grant from Wyoming Humanities. All materials are the property of Union Pacific Coal Company, on long-term loan at Western Wyoming Community College. For usage inquiries, contact the <a href="https://www.uprrmuseum.org">Union Pacific Museum</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource UPCC Impression Book Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource CC BY-NC-ND Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1912 Description An account of the resource 12" x 10" book with black cover and brown spine. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Union Pacific Coal Co. 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All materials are the property of Union Pacific Coal Company, on long-term loan at Western Wyoming Community College. For usage inquiries, contact the <a href="https://www.uprrmuseum.org">Union Pacific Museum</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource UPCC Mine Documents 1907-1938 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource CC BY-NC-ND Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1907-1938 Subject The topic of the resource Mine Equipment ads, 1907-1938, Correspondence Description An account of the resource Documents and letters recording some of the events through stated years. Papers are held together by brass pins, staples, and paper clips. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Eugene McAuliffe, George B. Pryde, V.O. Murray, E.C. Way, James R. Dewar, S. Rogers, V.E. Harrison, J.T. Ryan, A.F. Williams, George Plews, J.W. Morrill Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1-0286 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Union Pacific Coal Co.