Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-06-28 | Page 5 | Miners Called on Strike Third Time in West Virginia

Miners iners Galled Called on III Strike Third Time nU u I In in W est Virginia ir inra tONT FAIRMONT w. w Va June 28 8 AP APA AP-A A third call for a general ike of Northern West Vest Virginia ail oal miners effective July 5 was ned here today by Van A. A Bitt- Bitt u r International of e United Mine Workers of Amer- Amer C ri The Th union leader asked every mIner in Northern West Virginia ot of under contract to join with I tbt miners miners' union in a tight fight for tor dependence The strike can call said Mid that at the stance of men working in nonunion nonUnIon non non- UnIon mInes the union had conducted conducted con con- ducted an intensive campaign of or- or sanitatIon and that the great ma- ma rity of the men working in the nonunion mines where the opera opera- ors ora abrogated their wage agreement agree agree- lI ment nt wIth the United Mine Work Work- ers en are now members ot of the On April 1 and October 26 1925 calls caUs were Issued by Bittner Bittners s In the Northern West Vest Virginia field and Ind for more than a year ear strike headquarters have been maintained here Y Practically all mines In the field are are operating non union paying substantially the same as the scale which is lower than the agreements signed in BalU- BalU mors ore and New York in 1924