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The Evening Bulletin
Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky
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In Columbus, Ohio, on April 3, United Mine Workers officials consult on a Jackson County coal operator's refusal to pay standard rates for a new machine at Wellston mines and demands for a custom scale, seen as unfair. Plans include meetings in eastern Ohio to address hardships like non-standard screens at Morgan Run mine.
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Arbitrary Action of a Jackson County Operator.
HE WANTS A SCALE OF HIS OWN.
Meetings to Be Held in Eastern Ohio-A Screen That Works a Hardship-Starting Confession of a Firebug-Preparing For Haas' Electrocution-Flour Mills Burned Other Ohio State News.
COLUMBUS, O., April 3.-President Farms of the Ohio division, and President W. Phelps of the Jackson county sub-district, are in the city consulting with National Secretary Pearce of the United Mine Workers of America in reference to conditions in the Jackson county district. The matter under consideration was a machine now being run at Wellston Coal company mines for which they say the superintendent refuses point blank to pay the scale rates.
It is a singular fact that Jackson county operators have heretofore only contended for the rates that prevail in the Hocking district, but in this instance the superintendent is said not only to have refused to pay that rate, but demands the privilege of setting up a little scale of his own. The officials have argued that that would not only be unfair to the other operators, but that it would be establishing a precedent that would work a hardship along the line to both operators and miners.
Just what action will be taken has not been fully determined on, but it is certain that active measures will be taken to put a stop to a matter that will work a hardship all along the line.
President Farms will next week visit Cleveland and will hold mass meetings at Goshen, Piketon and Wainright mines, and the Coneville mines near Coshocton, where his attention is demanded. At the Morgan Run mine the operator has introduced an innovation in the way of screens that is claimed to work a decided hardship to the miners employed there. An effort will be made to have the screens made to comply with the standard screen now in existence, and the effort will be made in such a way that the superintendent will see the injustice of his present plan for screening the coal produced at the mine.
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Jackson County, Ohio
Event Date
April 3
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active measures to be taken to stop the unfair practices; efforts to adjust screens at morgan run mine to standard.
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Officials of the United Mine Workers consult in Columbus regarding a machine at Wellston Coal company mines where the superintendent refuses to pay standard scale rates and demands a custom scale, seen as unfair and precedent-setting hardship. Jackson County operators previously accepted Hocking district rates. President Farms plans mass meetings next week at Goshen, Piketon, Wainright, and Coneville mines near Coshocton. At Morgan Run mine, non-standard screens cause hardship to miners, and efforts will be made to enforce standard screens.