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...Weighmen. But mining had scarcely been resumed in Fayette County before new truce troubles bobbed up to plague the industry. A prime item in the armistice allowed miners to select and pay their own weighmen to check the company's weighmen at the tipple scales. United Mine Wrorkers promptly proceeded to elect their own members as check weighmen. These the mine superintendents of the non-union Frick and Pittsburgh companies refused to recognize, on the ground that their non-union employes were unrepresented. Thus a new deadlock was created and NRA's special coal arbitration board headed...
...miners in the Pittsburgh Area struck. By June 9 they numbered 19,000, including 4,000 West Virginia miners who walked out weeks before. They protested "starvation wages," poor working conditions, poor living conditions, non-union check weighmen at the tipples (scales). Not only were they disgruntled at their employers but with each other, for their strength was divided between two unions-the old United Mine Workers of America (affiliated with the American Federation of Labor) and the New National Miners Union of Communist com- plexion, formed in 1928. Each disavowed the other. The National said the United had betrayed...
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