Final Appeal Seeks Unity as Logan Mine Workers Conclude Meeting
The 33rd annual convention of sub district No 1 of District No 6 United Mine Workers of America adjourned in Logan after days of talks and final appeals to officers to stay firm. Logan chosen as next meeting site. burial fund rules revised. changes to succession in officer ranks. Emancipation Day designated as a holiday. new union label guidance urged for members. Jerome Watson outlined upcoming certification bills for foremen and mine bosses and safety standards.
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Logan
United Mine Workers of America
Jerome Watson
G. W. Savage
Lee Hail
David Watkins
Oral Daugherty
Bual
Vern Mille
Athens
Committee of
Harvey Warden
Earl Penn
Herman Theison
J. E. Swyers
Alex Brown
State Department
Miners Debate Wages and Press Coverage at Union Meeting
The union discusses wage scales, tonnage pay, and press reporting on coal miners. Speakers insist the $7.50 day wage covers only a minority of workers while tonnage pay dominates earnings. A lengthy discussion follows on the Deanville strip mine project and press access to information.
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Deanville
Daugherty
Hall
Mr. Daugherty
Senator Copeland Warns of Coal Price Rise and Collapse
Senator Royal Copeland of New York says profiteering will punish the public for lacking coal emergency legislation. He cites the current strike and predicts severe suffering and huge losses as unfit mines and underutilized miners threaten the industry with collapse.
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Washington
Congress
Royal Copeland
New York
Copeland
Dawes Reappoints Fess to Reed Committee Post
Vice President Dawes rules the Reed senate committee retains power after adjournment and appoints Senator Simeon D. Fess to fill the vacancy left by Senator Guy D. Goff. The Republican from Ohio joins the panel amid ongoing inquiries into campaign expenditures.
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Evanston
Ill
U.R
Reed Senate
Sixty-Ninth Congress
Charles G. Dawes
Dawes
Simeon D. Fess
Republican
Ohio
Guy D. Goff
W. Va
Dr Jones to Represent Athens County in Washington Meet
Dr C L Jones manager of Athens County Home Telephone company was named as one of three delegates of the United States Independent association to attend the annual United States Chamber of Commerce meeting in Washington May 3 5. Jones is a director of the national association and president of the Ohio independent telephone men. The organization has 600 members and speakers will include President Coolidge and Secretary Hoover.
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C. L. Jones
Athens County Home Telephone Company
United States Independent Association
United States Chamber of Commerce
Washington
Dr. Jones
National Association
Ohio Independent Telephone Men
United States Independent Telephone Organization
Coolidge
Commerce
Herbert Hoover
Convention Closes as Logan Leads in Next Meeting Vote
Auditor Isaac Jones closes the convention. The vote for the next convention places Logan at 25 and Glouster at 14. The convention recessed to reconvene when the scale committee is ready to report.
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Isaac Jones
Logan
Glouster
Ohio coal operators plan to break wage deadlock by ignoring union officials
Ohio coal operators propose a direct appeal to idle miners to end the wage stalemate over the Jacksonville agreement. Leaders say they will ignore United Mine Workers officials and use a card urging workers to question West Virginia non union jobs while aiming to draft a competitive scale with Kentucky and West Virginia pits.
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Columbus
H. Robbins
Ohio Coal Association
United Press
Robbins
Ohio
Jacksonville
International
The
United Mine Workers of America
Lorain Coal and Company
Ohio and
West V
West Virginia
John 8S. Jones
Operators’ Association
Kentucky
Local unions ready to entertain race parleys meet
Lee Hall, Ohio president of the miner's union, criticized owners for their attitude toward union leaders and reiterated the union's determination to fight it out as operators' association pressed a new move.
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Lee Hall
Ohio
Miner’s Union
Operator's Association
Union Miners to Receive Final Pay After Wage Pact Lapse
About fifteen thousand miners who left the Eastern Ohio pits will share from 600000 to 750000 dollars as final pay for work in the last half of March. Disbursement is scheduled for tomorrow pending a new wage agreement and mine reopening.
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Bellaire
O.R
Ohio
Jacksonville
Peace moves for coal wage talks in Indiana district
In Indianapolis on April 8 amid a 170000 miner walkout the Illinois Operators' Association and United Mine Workers discuss a district conference on wage terms. Harry Fishwick proposed the meeting while Rice Miller signaled possible acceptance, as operators convened.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Illinois Operators’ Association
St. Louis
Harry Fishwick
Illinois
United Mine Workers
Rice Miller
Operators’ Association
Indiana Strip Mines May Reopen Under Old Wage Scale
Secret talks at Terre Haute between strip mine operators in Indiana and union representatives showed prospects of resuming 20 percent of normal coal output under the old wage scale. The agreement would exclude mines of the Indian Coal Operators' Association.
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Indiana
Terre Haute
Indian Coal Operators’ Association
Appeal to governor to save Santoy from abandonment coal village
NEW LEXINGTON April 8 U R An appeal to Governor Dona hey against the abandonment of the coal mining village of Santoy will be made by village officials according to plans disclosed today by Mayor C A McIntyre. Fifteen families have vacated as orders from the operators require. Other families are expected to leave in days. Sheriff Harley McNabb says he will not assist eviction of Santoy residents so long as they conduct themselves properly and pay rent at Sun day Creek Coal company. He vows to keep the peace in the county.
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New Lexington
U.R
Donahey
Santoy
C. A. McIntyre
Harley McNabb
Santay
Perry County
Sunday Creek Coal Company
McNabb
Television foretells new era of sight and sound
NEW YORK April 8 UPI A demonstration at Bell laboratories shows television can transmit eye and voice across distances from Washington to a public audience. Officials like Herbert Hoover and Walter S Gifford discuss future home and office use while acknowledging current limits.
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Washington
Bell Laboratories
Walter 8. Gifford
Stimson Touted as Possible Kellogg Successor
Henry L. Stimson, former secretary of war and newly named special investigator on the Nicaraguan problem, is discussed as a possible successor to Secretary of State Kellogg if he resigns. The president asks Stimson to report on a formula for future U.S. relations with Nicaragua under the protectorate treaty proposed by President Dias.
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Washington
U.P
Henry L. Stimson
Kellogg
Stimson
United States
Nicaragua
Proby
Dias
Chicken Thefts in Athens County To Be Solved Shortly
The Athens County chicken thefts have seen about 1,500 fowls stolen in three months. Arraigned suspect Theodore Sharp pleaded guilty and was bound over to the grand jury, with partner Hudwell awaiting additional action on $500 bond. Victims report losses across Athens Albany Guysville and Parkersburg routes.
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Ae Athens
Sass
Theodore
Charles
Sharp
Alex Moore
Hudwell
Atheny
Logan
Lancaster
Marietta
Parkersburg
R. D. Williams
Williams Williams
Parker
George Jacoby
Mareshfield Road
Albany
Guysville
Shanghai and Peking tensions rise over Soviet consulate raid
Amid Beijing and Shanghai tensions foreign police raid the Soviet consulate area as protests flare. Moscow protests note condemns the action as intolerable, while Chinese authorities and foreign guards confront disturbances and detentions around the settlement.
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Shanghai
Consulate
Jwuarde Wlsch
Edward I. Barrett
Sett
Barrett
Peking
Welllington Koo
Koo
London
Sul
Ne See
L Bank
Vabesdaan
Tientsin
China
Morning Post
Athens Rotary Denies Joint Meet With Kiwanians
Ath en Rotary officials say no effort has been made to arrange a joint meeting with Kiwanians over the present coal wage controversy in Athens. W H Haskins, a former Ohio coal figure, will speak next week on the Ohio coal situation.
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Athens
Haskins
Ohio
Missionaries Arrive in San Francisco After China Trip
Dr. Ivan Worley his wife and child formerly of Columbus were among several American missionaries arriving in San Francisco from China. They described narrow escapes from death at the hands of Chinese bandits in their travels.
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Columbus
Ivan Worley
San Francisco
China
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Athens Messenger
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