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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1931
Page
7
A Beckley column muses on a National Junior Shakespeare Story Telling club while entertaining notes on muffs and bustles, local cashiers, and playful Shakespearean quips. The piece revels in light social commentary and literary whimsy with references to Avon and Trojan myths.
Frank Dunbar, superintendent of the Mather mine, announced that 100 additional miners will be employed at the Mather mine of the Mather Pickands Collieries company starting November under a full time schedule. The hiring follows renewed industrial activity in the Great Lakes region.
Washington reports that textiles and coal industries pressed for reform of antitrust laws before a senate subcommittee. Henry Kendall and George J. Anderson urged updated statutes and a national economic council to study trends and guide planning, while Daniel Willard warned against compulsory planning but supported better data access. Anderson labeled coal conditions chaotic and called for aligning production with demand to stabilize credit and leadership.
About 800 coal miners in the Henryetta district voted Sunday to strike over lack of operator conference with their UMWA representative on wage cuts. Operators reduced daily pay from 5 dollars to 3.60 and the tonnage rate from 83 cents to a variable rate. miners seek a conference to set fair wages tied to current sales contracts.
Two hundred seventy five more workers were added to two Chattanooga plants. International Harvester hired 175 men as it moved to a four day week, while Lookout Extract resumed after three years idle with a 100 man force. Full operation will continue and more hires are planned.
Riveting of the upper gates for Marmet lock on the Kanawha River will be finished by General Contracting Corp of Pittsburgh. Lower gates are erected and riveted. Gates arrived from Wheeling Structural Steel. Lock to be inspected by November. project seven months ahead of July 1932 deadline.
Permanent committees representing United Mine Workers and Ohio coal operators will meet Governor George White in Columbus to push better conditions in the mining industry. The panels were named after a two day conference with operators and union leaders concluded yesterday.
After sustaining a broken collar bone in a Tuesday automobile accident, the schedule for additional conferences was set to proceed once he recovers. The announcements indicate planned meetings with team officials to review progress and determine next steps.
Strikes were called in two eastern Ohio bituminous mines affecting more than 400 workers. At Cadiz Ohio and Pennsylvania Deep Shaft 325 miners walked out over a six percent wage reduction. Layton Allmiller mine in Midfield saw 86 workers join the stoppage claiming union committees were not recognized. Inside labor scales ranged from 83.75 to 84.25 dollars for eight hours. A separate note mentions a safety blade device and Romania's grain exports ranking behind Russia.
Pittsburgh hosts the third international conference on bituminous coal from November 16 to 21 under Carnegie Institute of Technology. The event blends technical and economic discussions to map a rehabilitated industry. Foreign scientists will supply about two thirds of over 100 papers. Governor Albert C. Ritchie will discuss government policy.
Myron C Taylor of United States Steel to discuss coal situation as part of the program. The note adds that about 500000 letters are carried by air mail in the United States daily.
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