https://haylibrary.cvlcollections.org/files/original/d2c89a68306b018b191bbe38d4923554.pdf 36289aba7d71a195ec690e1045fd7476 PDF Text Text EN MONTHS: Page 7 c_, 70th Year,No.17 September 1, 1959 Twjce a Month • • - ·~ ,~ swt \fOT·~ ·) . I ~o ~MALL ) li ~E R~AP,,y ~ ~~-'\../ 0 . ...... C> ,'J' ' -~,.... . :. ....:.:,:,,.::.;· .,·. . ...... : :~:::-;;~_ { :::::~•f· ,,-.'-·'-'<:-':_:__ Labor Day-1959 �United • M.ine , J:Vork~1-s ·,.Journal Officia JOHN L. LEWIS, President United l\line Workers' Building ' , U'.,~sbington 5; D. C. 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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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 Mine Workers Journal Sep. 1st, 1959 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource CC BY-NC-ND Date Created Date of creation of the resource. September 1st, 1959 Subject The topic of the resource United Mine Workers Journal, 1959 Description An account of the resource A copy of the United Mine Workers Journal from 1959. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1-0269 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Union Pacific Coal Co.