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...check-off" is a system by which the mine operators take union dues and union assessments from the pay envelopes of the members of the mine union. This system is in use in bituminous coal mines. The operators do not like it because they are obliged to collect funds which may be later used against them. The union miners demand it because it is a sure way of collecting dues. The operators object to it, asserting that it is illegal, un-American and that in effect it forces a closed shop, giving the United Mine Workers a labor monopoly...
...joint subcommittee which was conferring on this question met at 10:30 A. M. The discussion grew hot; the committee forgot to have lunch. At 5 :00 P. M. the Conference adjourned with no results achieved. Next day it was resumed. John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, presented a resolution...
...Resolved: That the principle of complete recognition of the United Mine Workers and the check-off as expressed in Demand No. 1 be adopted...
Harking back to the question of the checkoff, a special committee of the National Coal Association (soft coal operators) issued a statement denying that the check-off was satisfactory in the bituminous mines. The committee stated that it had filed a request with the Coal Commission for the abolition of the checkoff. Said the committee : " This system was originally accepted in the bituminous industry in the hope that it would tend to lessen strikes and breaches of agreement. The result has been just the opposite. . . . Under the check-off the United Mine Workers raise every year more than...
...Gratuitous effrontery," was what John L. Lewis called the statement of the National Coal Association ?" merely propaganda in behalf of non-union coal operators." The bituminous operators have a fund of $10,000,000, Mr. Lewis asserted, for use against the United Mine Workers...