SE The Association of Biféminous Coal Operators of Centralllennsylvania In a series of statements, of whidh this is the first, we want to present to vou, and by you we mean the mafwho toils, the business man, the pro- fessional man and the miner himself the facts and conditions leading up to and incident to the strike of the mgmbers of the U. M. W. of A. in District No. 2 which is now in progress. On March 6, 1922, B. M. Clark, president of this® The operators and miners of the Central Penn- association, wrote to Mr. John Brophy, president of sylvania field have for the pat 23 years negotiated United Mine Workers of America, of District No. 22 © and concluded their own scale agreement governing a., as follows: . the Central District’of Pennsylvania. In violation of custom and precedent of 23 years standing the U. M. W. of A., of ict No. 2, refused to meet the opera- ule 25 of the 31, 1922, pr y and Mr. James Marks, President § “In the event of a new icale agreement not t, respectively, of the UM.W.of A, B having been signed on or before March 31, at Indiana Bf 1922, then and i in that event the U. M. W. of theminers’ scale ¢ A., strict No. 2, will continue all men in . Pmmitte “8 / mines regularly at work under the wages and ould not meet with the scale com= § conditions of this agreement for an addition tors’ association for the purpose of § al thirty days after the date on which the i ett is Scale Committees of operators and miners hold their first meeting for the purpose of negotiating a scale to succeed this present scale. On reac ching an agreement to suc dating from April h ner, £ the 30 days Rn April 1, 1922, shall A d to in the next con-
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