Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 184, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 October 1935 — Page 32

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BOOTLEG COAL COMING FROM TOY-LIKE PITS More Than 12,000 Workers Take Over Holdings of Companies. Thii I* (hr vromt of a <orir. of article, on the bootlrt anthracite coal Industry. BY FRED W. PERKINS Times Special Writer SHAMOKIN. Pa.. Oct. 11—Crazily they break the skyline-—queer homemade superstructures of toy coal mines in the bootleg anthracite zone of eastern Pennsylvania. They are the “operations” of more than 12000 miners who are helping themselves to company coal in this region. One of the mines seemed a bit more elaborate than the others. It had a little tipple built of such lumber as could be picked up in the neighborhood. On top stood a spectacled man who dumped the coal over a screen as it came up from the 40-foot shaft below. The coal was raised by a cable windlassed by an old automobile engine. And at the throttle of the engine sat Jimmy La Crosse, a keeneyed man of about 40. one of the former eomoanv miners who have created the bootleg industry. Received 53.50 Ton “Yeah. I’m the general manager of this company,” said Jimmy. “Well, we haven't named the comnany yet, maybe we never will. There are four of us—the fellow on the tipple, me, and two down below. We give the coal its first, screening here, and then sell it for $3.50 a ton to a bootleg breaker in Shamokin. “We're taking in enough to keep going, but we still owe S9O for that cable and a little other equipment. You see, we Just got started here, and we’ve got, to pay off what you might call our capital investment.” Jimmy stopped short. The barrel, coming up from below, had got into trouble. Jimmy raced to the hole and shouted instructions to the men underground. Finally the trouble was cleared up and Jimmy raised the barrel to the tipple. “No, I didn't lose my job when the Philadelphia and Reading Coal Iron Cos. centralized operations,” he resumed. “Most of the men around here on this hill did. but I was gassed in the war, and when I came back to the mines I found I couldn’t stand the air down there. T asked for an outside job, and told ’em what was wrong with me, but the general manager said that was Uncle Sam’s fault, not the company’s. “So I drifted around from one job to another. I never made much for my wife and the two boys. Finally the bootleg coal industry started, and I got, into it because mining is what I know most about. Oft Encountered Argument “Sure, this is company land—at least the company says so. But the company isn’t using it, so why shouldn’t we? The company says it won’t operate more mines because it can’t sell coal, but we’re selling coal. If the company would only wise up and open them collieries—.” Jimmy’s economic argument was repeated at dozens of bootleg holes. If we can sell coal, why can’t the company? There was never a dissent to the declaration that if the company would open the collieries and give jobs, bootlegging would

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Christianity’s progress in darkest Africa will be described to Indiana Baptists at their three-day convention in Greensburg beginning Tuesday. Speakers are to include Dr. Thomas Moody, a Belgian Congo missionary for almost half a century, who supervises 300 native village schools. cease, because “you can make more money and be safer in a regular rar?" This argument seemed sound. Why couldn’t the whole bootleg coal situation be solved by the company realizing that through opening more mines and putting more men to work it would get the bootleg business? But a company officer knocked a hole in it. “You see,” said he, “the bootleggers would produce much more coal, two or three times as much, if they worked in well equipped mines instead of using their primitive methods. There would be no market for the increased production. We couldn’t sell it. In other words, there wouldn’t be as many, probably not half as many, jobs as there are bootleggers.” Advances Other Reasons The company officer had other reasons why the scheme wouldn’t work. A good many company employes, he said, have been bootleggings on the side, and he feared they will continue to do so unless results come from an agreement just reached with the United Mine Workers. Another trouble, he said, is that all the bootleggers are not former miners, at least of the anthracite region. Some have come from other states and never saw the inside of a regular coal mine. If the company attempted to hire all its former employes, these immigrants would keep on bootlegging. The only solution he saw was for the state or some other governmental unit to crack down on the bootleggers, drive them off the company lands, and close their holes. No state or local officer has yet seen fit to try that, and opinion in the anthracite region is that none will do so until jobs are furnished for the men who lost out when the companies centralized their operations to cut costs. Home Inspection Set Till Times i''iierinl LAFAYETTE, Ind* Oct. 11.—Dr. E. H. Cowan, Indiana department medical director, was to head a committee from the Grand Army of the Republic in its annual inspection of the Soldiers’ Home here today.

LONG DETOUR ! LIFTED; FIVE MORE PLACED Surface Work on Roads of State Necessitates Route Changes. Five new detours have been made necessary by extension of the State Highway Commission’s state-wide t surface treating program. However, six in effect last week have been removed. Important | among these is the 12-mile detour between the Steuben-DeKalb Coun- : ty line and Angola, whose removal! leaves the route from Indianapolis to Detroit free of detours. Detours now in effect include: Road I—Surface treating between Cambridge City and Hagerstown, detour marxed. (finish Oct. 14.) Road 2—Detours in South Bend over I city streets. Road 3- Shoulder construction south of | KendaUville. drive slowly; detour north ! of Allen-Noble County line is 10 miles I over good gravel road. Road 9—Detour over city streets In Shelbyville; detour from junction Road 67 near Pendeiton to a point two miles south of junction 236 south of Anderson; shoulder construction north of Marion, , drive slowly. Road 12—Detour over city street* In East Chicago. Road 15—Closed between Wabash and Road 114, detour marked over Roads 13, j 213 and 114; detour in Goshen over city ! streets. Road 20—Shoulder construction west of LaGrange, drive slowly. Road 24 —Detour over city streets in j Roanoke. Road 28—Detour 12 miles between Road 43 and Road 52 over gravel road. Road 29—Surface treating between Mad- i ison and Versailles, detour marked; de- j tour at south edge of Logansport is one- j half mile. Road 30—Traffic drive slowly between Grovertown and Etna Green and between Warsaw and Columbia City account shoulder construction; detour east of Warsaw is two and one-half miles; bridge run-arounds east of Warsaw; shoulder construction New Haven to Ohio line. U. S. 31—Drive slowly over city streets in Seymour, account road under construction. Road 32—Detour just west of Union City is one and one-half miles. Road 34—Detour over city streets in Crawfordsville. U. S. 35—Detour at south edge of Logansport is one-half mile. U. S. 36—Closed between Indianapolis and Pendleton; detour over Road 40 to Greenfield and Roads 9 and 67 through Pendleton. Road 37—Detour in English, Paoli and Oolitic over city streets. Road 38 —Detour just east of Pendleton is one mile. Road 39—Detour in Delphi and south is two miles. U. S. 40—Detour 37 miles between Dunreith and Richmond over Roads 3, 38, and U. S. 35; open to local traffic between Dunreith and Cambridge City. U S. 41—Closed from Cook north to Road 30; car detour 19 miles starting at | Cook over county road to Crown ! — 'int j I then over Roads 53 and 30; truck dt.our . 22 miles starting at junction Road 2 and I county road to Crown Point then Roads 53 and 30. Road 43—Detour from Greencastle south is two miles. Road 44—Bridge construction in Connersville, detour one-quarter mile. Road 49—Detour from Chesterton north to Road 20 is four miles. Road 50—Drive slowly west of Shoals due to settlement of road—Bridge runaround north of Aurora. U. S. 52—Closed between Indianapolis and Lebanon; detour over Road 29 and 32; detour between junction Road 33 and Lafayette, marked over Road 38, county road and Road 26. Road 60—Detour from Wilson to Bennettsville is three miles. Road 62—Detour from Edwardsville to New Albany is 14 miles by way of Galena over county road and Road 150; oiling between China and junction Road 129, traffic drive through slowly. Road 67—Drive carefully between Swltz City and Spencer account men working; detour over city streets in Indianapolis; closed between Indianapolis and Anderson; detour marked over Road 13 to Noblesville and Road 32 to Anderson. Road 115—Closed between Read 24 and Road 15, detour marked over Roads 24, 13. 213 and 114. . TT Road 121— Surface treating between U. S 52 and Connersville (Start Monday.) Detour marked.

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