Show LABOR CLASH I ICOr COr CONING NG SOO Mine Workers Plan Drive To Unionize Fields In West Virginia BY BV IL COU COLIt Special The Standard Standard- l LX l Copyright 1923 By The Standard Examiner Examiner WASHINGTON Feb The 10 10 The first bIg Industrial clash of or 1923 Is ii ex- ex expected expected ex expected to materialize within the tho next 30 das dale in the tho union non-union coal fields ot of the West Vest V L i i where the tha Workers of or America contemplating another gigantic gig t C bring tho the workers there Into the union ranks rank The latest attempt to unionize West Vest Virginia coal fields fieldi which have havo stool out for tor more than 25 vears Is said sald by operators to be bo under Iho the personal bY d direction of Percy Tetlow formerly I statistician ot or the mine workers orlen or- or organization organization or organization who Is at ot Charleston at the present time Tetlow during the war commanded a machine gun company dubbed The The Suicide Squad or of the numerous fatalities st within It its ranks The Che mine workers regard himas as a man of ot unusual resourcefulness and courage ant and an l predict that this time Ume under his leadership West Vest Virginias Virginia's union union non coal fields will yield to or- or I I 1 Mingo Logan and New Nw River are Tetlow's objectives th tives es These heso fields produce the time bulk or of West union non-union coil corl I During the e sr the mine workers spent pent more than In I a a aln am attempt to unionize them Hundreds of men have hase been killed in the tho various vl efforts to convert them m to unionism SIG I O I In the union coal fields operators are arc signing labor contracts contract oi the a aoi cement reached at New ew York YorkI between Ohio Indiana and ond Illinois I Operators and ant the union W Within thu week agreements have ve been signed to tol toI I co cover coser er the fields in Arkansas MissourI toI I I Kansas Oklahoma Central Pennsyl Pennsylvania 1 vania vanla and Iowa All other fields still III undoubtedly sign agreements so ao thata I a strike this sear ear in any ny union fields Is remote I I Every Ivery member ot of the United Mine MineWorkers MineI Workers of or America has baa been assessed 2 a II month tor for two months as ns a 0 ape ape- special Iu cial assessment The total thus tar far ar to tol tobo I Ibe be raised will exceed 1500 The miners assert the tho special assessment assessment- I j which is in addition to regular dues dues- dues as wag levied to pay oft ort Indebtedness In- In Incurred incurred In Incurred during the tho strike during last ear The union non-union operators profess to aee see In tho levy the tho raising of or a 0 huge fund to finance tho t to swing Virginia into the union Union operators in tho the bItuminous fields ha have hate e decided to com compi pi smith Ith the demands of or the coal commission for tor Information and amid are aro endeavoring to operate co-operate with smith Ith the tho commission to the fullest possible extent The oper oper- operators oper- oper operators operators have havo employed as counsel John JohnW cv Davis former ambassador to Great Britain Henry Stimson former secre secretary tary tl tar Of ot war and others at tics ro- ro reported re reported ported to exceed In iii the aggregate aggregate gato gate to advise them theist with smith respect to the commissions commission's Inquiry These ad- ad advisers advisors od visors have recommended that the operators aid the commission In lii ob- ob obtaining ob obtaining taming the facts bout about the time coal in- in In Industry COMMERCE NEWS S With the exceptions ot of develop develop- developments I meats ments in tile the coal cool Industry tho the week in the realm ot of finance and Industry has J been elY uneventful The railroad reported I ot of record record record-bi caking traffic trl Indications aro re that the tho I coming of ot spring still Bill witness n I cir shortage o of proportions proportion's greater than eser er recorded before at that season ot of the year The Tha federal reserve boar board made public figures placing the tile increase se In la lit tile the 80 chief national banks bl at a n trifle less Jess than 0 over oser er the figures of ot a year 1 ago BEO Lumber shipments i during January according to the National Lumber association exceeded ship ship ship- shipments ments monte In iii January 1822 1922 by more than board feet teet or In excess excelS of 60 50 per cent The department ot of o agri agri- agriculture agri- agri agriculture agriculture culture estimates the farmers armera pur- pur purchase pur purchase chase PO power poster er to have havo Increased nearly 80 30 per cent within the tile past year rho rhe department announces an InCrease ot of more moro than Ithan 18 IS per cent n II year in 1 postal receipts at the theCO So 60 leading leading- industrial A wave of ot prosperity In which there are no bairon bairen spots of ot any zai u size I is sweeping Jl the country the depart depart- department's department's ments ment's statement r reads d I |