A GENERAL NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS { OF ORGANIZED LABOR IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA UNION Becognized and Endors. of by Mere Than Fifty Lecal Unions and Cen- tral Bedies Over Cam bela County and Ad. esmt Mining Areas Union Press, Established May, 1835 VOL 47. NO. 25. —————— NO AGREEMENT YET BETWEEN COALMEN ON NEW CONTRACT Substantial Agreement Reported Reached Between Bome of the Parties New York Soft-coal operators sepresentatives of the United Workers were still deadlocked ut press tisne on a new contract as hard ecal eperators opened negolations with other hited Mine Worker reprisen tives. The aoft-coal conferees have been able to reach an agreement ince Pwo yaar contract expired on un The hard. ronal operators § DOW COTAract 1» repisce ant one expiring April 3 gotiutions Tuesday by turning down wage increase demands and recom mending that the present Iwo year « act bo extended for anciher years “with cnly slight modifications Federal Concilistor John R. Steelman who bmi Deen ing in ihe soft seal conferences. announced . hat substantial sgroement has been reach od Saterpen some of the parties B wis aot indicted whether an) Si Supshan 1s) hes been done to hea the widening breach between the sorthern and southern operators we Hors, spokesman for the northern operators, zefesed to comment "We are fill negotiating a sontraet”™ he aid of paramount interest lo the publ however, was » decision to discuss wilh the Bituminous Coal Commision th guestion of adjusting minimum pri f Best any Increased cost ne irrred by the ojerators in granting wage in Tease Sevlnan wounid this forces a reese 4 he comsuEMET “§ don't Enow = be said “Rais 5 seater hr Sie Bites inoas Coenl Oo iaeion.” bh ‘i% v 3 negotinling their opened. ne Bes “5 ¥S iw SE ¥ as Of go 2EATA 3 wag ees £ whether price of ¢ Ry ¥ 8¥ 98 a Le £3 9 AN ATTAINMENT OF THE LARGEST ORIFERAL WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OCTROULATION IN CENTRAL FENNSYLVANIA CAMBRIA COUNTY MEETS LONG.OVERDUE PAYROLL pee M he employe #4 ¥ ¢ sed the t paydas _ of Marsh A total of $2281 08 was turned ory f the inty Mord *AYCGRYS scehedu n Apt tiad been od 8 Mal Aaa funds Brus Ake iT hout the payroll Comm Frank the IETS Hol Wi P County ang swing in I'haomas negol tated i 3.5% nan and the mone Mon made possible the ty hy MM tay payroll. Coun Sol- (ew Rpence was in Saturday where he obtained a heck for a £300 000 lou The other FY in 1 he Sy 3 EP tadel- wi p itisy = rib ig Eel 8 arti Be aan yor obligations of EASTER MONDAY AT SUNSET TO FEATURE FAMED SAXOPHONIST Tony Pastor to Play in Newly Decorated Sunset Ballroom to Open New Beason th he coun Fastey WMordsy redervout where GRIC are sYROsyIoRe Ea mine foremen, mine electrician and fame in the pust year, is an outstand- ling artist. having been selected on | Metronome’s 1940 poll a» the leading i somor sexophonist of the year Tony Pastor, who has skyrocked to In Bis! sgEregation are artists who have made sausical history. Among these le Joo . Morrison, whom compositions, “Knoek! Knock" and "Purndiddie Joe.” place him among tie year's leading song | { writers. Lindy Keene, Dorsey Ander- son and Joe MiAfes ave sil outstanding | artists and each contributes in a great | meastire to the present populirity of | evans of Foreign Wars David Gwyne | rome (fourt this year, according to an band, Tomy Pastor's recent Bluebird ree | ords are selling like the proverbial’ *hot-cake.”. Recently the band played CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AREA. GRANGERS URGE PROMPT ACTION T0 SAVE ROADS Meeting at Concord Grange Hall Saturday Lays Plans to Take Action & . ¥ “UE tops ff BrveTrs miles pamed on of LATnbria roads wis Saturday Catnbria Count urday Ty yarteriy meeling % ? Pomona Grange > f Grange Hal eG Lion tesed iueyt sriers wilh Ee Members of the session that WPA w the past year hat completed 83 frond been rushed oo iE st val we Dane 5. Dut it nal of have Deen ple Wan drked owt that pnlesy prompl Sela sunken tn sover the stone with black ihe figintegrate rep (4 inder fie § roads many spring Oo Named lo the tte. which @ highway FEET | ry ited gt 238g wick yes Base EAE it BI ring Were airman Henry wherham Yallor 53 Edward Cambria Township and Wilmore RK. Philip Strittmatlier Pomona (range warning and afteropaon the morning meeting Miss # 3 SOTO Joseph 0. Thomas, Warthy Cambria Master County At & * Grounds SLR i “ the Ebenstwir Home & ing ithe landscaping farmhouses THe pune adjacent lo (he afterno i thorough discussion of Farm Credit Represeniatiy Pee fF SeEson was de af We a0 & Haltimore reser SE Aang Har cede rativen of that federnily fire bows Examination centers vere st Burnes born, Indiana and Jehnslown The esxmninstions held nn St Bd. ward's Charen Hall Barnesboro, were for the spplicants from the ith and 13th Bituminous Disteicts The examining boards follow: 10th inspector William Lamont chairmen; John Howe Ehrenfeld operator and Jomes Dunsmore, Portage, miner. 15th jnspector Devints J. Keenan, chair nan, Kehard Todhunter Barnesboro cperator, and Bernard W. Collins Bar. resbors, miner SELECT OFFICERS Officers for the enmuing Year were eiocted Tuesday of last week by mem. wis elected Commander, sutteeding Other officers selected were LL. & Yorger, senior vice comnumander; Ray- aed a oo THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1941 PATTON FIREMEN T0 HOLD BANQUET ON ANNIVERSARY Reserviitions Must Be Made By Saturday for Attendance to Be Assurred Paticn Fire Company will ob the 5th Anniversary with a Bangs end Wednesday April at 6:30 p the Municipal Hall Paton Out of town guests at the affair will nelude Five Chief John Moran, Johns Chalmers Dilling, President of nly Firemen's Assn, QR FF Baker Secretary of the Cambina y Piremen's Assn and the spealt. of the evening will be Paul Am. chief of ithe Altoona Fire De Loca guests of honor will one of a Y * Dance 14 mat LOW. Cambri ont neiser partment include Reuel Sommerville Esg the orfjiinal incorporstors of the Fire Ci mumnoers of the Borough Cianell and the clergymen of lhe COmMUnENITY The re Company $i gressed from the old hand-drawn cars wo well equipped motorized and effi cleat eguipmen: and have always on wyed he cooperation of the citizens of the community in eliminating fire hazards during the annual inspeciion of propery Fire losses hive Deen oa minimum The romunittee in chirge have a One programe arranged and would caution the meabers (0 have thelr reservations fn thelr hands by April 13. res YR. aril mat DO ee pled that! Patten Yuma Patton F Kept as *hetss We afer date ff BT eee Wi laen pres Heey Teodore Off 7 ressurer; 3 Blake Chief, GA. Lehman, west Niel Wm Leary foreman; Gerd Giovdetham. asst foreraast; chief one goer. WJ Mulligan and trastees Wes Whitefiud EB J Burkey and Milton Stadt TR ET ying wre officers of the i Angus Guevy Re Elmer Cio- j# wall be td Vite SEE Countyl-—was made at a meeting of tr | P Johnstown Chamber of Cassmweron tosrd of directors Monday, A siries of sciivities will be snipe RIER Patton Courier, Established Oct, 1I88. 19% South Fifth Ave PATTON PA ARMY ENLISTMENTS ARE ON DECLINE Regular Army enlistments in Penn. svivania decreased by 181 during Mare eh ae compared with February, recruit. ing offices at Harrisburg said recently Total enlistments in Regular Army service for the state in March ‘were 88 Stations in the Philadelphia dist. rst contributed 438 of these, with the Pittsburgh area supplying 308. Reduction of enlistments was offset by the heavies month of inductions un. | dor the Selective Service Act sinoe the first drafiees were called last Novem ber Conseription during Murch took § 173 men February's draft quota wheih was called from February § until Mar. eh 1 ek 4911 men and another 10.- AB men went into service when the 2h Division snd other stste guard gnits were federalized March enlisments in Altoona were 3 and Johnstown's totaled 0 DEMOCRATIC LABOR BALS ARE MOVING THROUGH HOUSE Party's Program for Protection of Workers Is Being Fought By Republicans. Harrisburg Fighting aguinet bitter and dogged G OP. forces the Lem erate in the House of Representatives are pushing the partys bor DIOENEN tis sccesaful contiusion Williams Bill (VIR 98 re- staring the safeguards of the Ast of 1837 which prevented smplovers from working women in industry afler 6 p.m passed the house last wesk and i now in Senste Committee This il sas reported from the “louse Labor Committee by Assemblyman Owens of Carnbrin Republicans, ld by thelr flor leader, Representative Wosdside of Dauphin, ss mild a saan an ever rangled a progressive Bil fought ita sdoption on the grounds of mitional defanse. Woodside failed to point out a © r Phe Pett ¥ ¥ that women can still worlk tw eight | 4 Philadelphia, and Hurry ONeill of Lackawanna, wduond lug week the party bill (HR 88) incommsing the benefits to workers ander the Tnem. a god 0 herald “King Coal” in tSviluate | in Johastown when the mioes of the ote had heen closed lagare ail county are working full ime. | publican chicanery, the bill was re- Word of Black Diamond Week in ported wo the house passd. and was Bria County, Johnstown in August will be carried to the 18th anual convention and ip nbitions of the American Mining Con sue in the waiting period from three = gress by Cumbria County operslism planning to otlend the meetings. Ek Mc:CANN SEEN BIDD PUR INDORSEMENT TO STATE SUPREME COURT wr SEMAN AT Jobe H. MeCann, president judge of Cambria County. is in Hae for the Dem | svat Ama | went to the senate Tuesday, Provision is made In the bill for = weeks to one: for an incredse in maxi mum weekly payments of from $18 Wo 430 and in the minimum from $150 10 #10. Payments will continye 18 weeks | ime or on occasional jobe will not Jose all their benefits on honest merit system standurdp thru | oeratie state organization's support for | i ghtened civil servi resivictions in. article in the Philadelphia Inquires, | Acctrding to Joseph FH Miller, staff writer; “a thren-cornered fight for the Pleas Judge John WH | of Cam. Repurted willing to enter the Dem. otratic | are Judge Samuel E ¢luded in the bill i Bills restoring the Workmen's Come : weight i HE A AGN SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR TEAR State Mine Inspector ston 's Report In Submitted in Bvideaos the Coroner's Jury A coroner's jury probing the deaths 4 four men in an explosion at the evict nine of the Monroe Coal Mining Compusty on March 18 reported Friday that they had found no criminal neg- ligenee during the two day investigh ven. Bat two mine officials were cited for severe censure and eriticiem for thelr slleged fullure to cooperate with workanm under them “We severely censure and criticise the sotions of Albert Benko (fire boss) and Wiliam Ford (assistant mine fore- man) i net with the men under (heir supervision when their at- reiation was called to suspicious con Aitton existing in this section” the jury's verdict seid adding “and we recommend that the mine inspector talkr mel setion as he deems fit and proper. Mine Inspector Willlam Lamont of Ebensbarg, in charge of the 10th BR- utnineus District, which includes the Revie mine. said Friday night thet he had made no decision on whether | or not prosecutions will be filed. Mr. Linon, said he would first confer with Seeretary of Mines Richard Maize and stiner officials of the Siste Department of Minis, snd then probably talk with Digtriel Attorney Stephens Mayer be- fore minouncing his decivion The jury verdict asserted that the inquest. had found the “Monroe Coal Mining Company and is operating per- somell not guilty of criminal negligence in the sceident” and continued: “We, however, adopt the Decomme. ditions as submitted by the commis sion of Rate mine inspectors in thelr report made a part of this proceeding wm regard Ww ventilation of doers in traction of pillars: | "We concur with the commission of | The com ‘tre Cleorye J. ployment Compensation Act of 1908. . C Wikkten thes conclusions: that the gas : Hberuted from a break in the Dotto of No. 30 room. IT right No 1 and passed into 18 left No 2 Dn wgh » manmway connecting the two tone and had been ignited by trolley wheel of a Coal dust did pot originate the explo Hon, nor propagate it. the Inspectors foul. the ventilation systems: thug sil doors placed in stoppings between intake and abrways be hinged : establishment of air locks where they are needed, rind inspecticn : Be g8 ym
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