Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1919 — OHIO MINERS BACK [ARTICLE]

OHIO MINERS BACK

First Break in Ranks Occurs at Steubenville Shaft. Rickses Fail to Stop Men From OoDm to Work—Police Prevent Serious Clashes. Steubenville, 0., Nov. 11. —The first break In the hitherto solid ranks of the 40,000 union miners in Ohio came Monday when 75 of the 140 miners at the High Shaft mine of the Stesbenvllle Coal and Mining company returned to work at the old scale, Pickets failed to stop the men from entering the mine despite the fact that several clashes occurred and four shots were fired from ambush at the returning miners. Police and deputies on the acene prevented the clashes from taking a serious turn. Three hundred shovelmen employed by coal stripping companies In Jefferson county refused to obey tSe order of the International Brotherhood of Shovelmen t® quit work In sympathy with the miners. They voted unanimously at Pariett,; Adens, Smithfield Station and Harmon to remain at 7—— . . ' . > Th*strippers are speeding up produeMon establishing a new record at Pariett Sunday when fifty tons of coal were mined and loaded In 29 minutes by one shovel.