Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 November 1949 — Page 2
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for district. or- sald one of the union officials, |juestion his eligibility. That was’
and were responsible for the Pen gsr years? We're still entitled to
Fh ce a ‘month the. oldtimers|(10% the trouble and caused the la coal mine, now closed.”
form with regulations, mainly to
Me as the boys reminisce charged too high fees for taking and return to their homes in the care of the miners.”
are known in the coal flelds, In all cases thé union membership lists are considerably higher than the active miners employed. "There's the mysterious Catspaw Miné on Frate Woolsey's place . near Winslow, operated by Bill Northtier a year ago when thé char-
Were eight active men if theiaguit lives working in stores and union although the membership on farms, frantica Sree a te exming had Kith sted 2 Mr, Sod gt! Practically -an of the miners | uitting the mines ant “ he = Hed ina h fhe nt Bear oo Who got” token _ jobs to enable T0 his grocery as a aocestul | tio eR ago - i ’ ” [them to got union eards and the, siness, took a job In a gopher
trict board. {resultant pensions were employed
« Briggs Local with a membership “dog” holes, worth Detween : $40,000 and
deep shaft mine, and Somerville they help out old friends, neigh-/in the’ last 20 years with the
but many of those who are getting refuse any of | A Pike County miner sold his $60 and $80 welfare payments| “They deserve it." he declared. land for over $50,000 to a eoal
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“Old Men's Home.”
> {the di sion’ and welfare payments, : {them. It's not the pensions that foe 18 Jn an MMldaYR Shat on in| mine, «For that reason. ft had got a job, had his card rein-'would be satisfied. Now they are
|stated at a gopher hole, got $80 back every week demanding at-|
" | The men struck, refused to welfare, died a few months ago tention for imaginary ailments.” back as 1915 or 1920, come te/fund to bust. - It's the welfare/ In some mines, men who hadn't... pack unless unfon require and his widow now draws the
Youtine inion meetings. to con- end of it. Too many ,people wanted unionization in past years, .. .. o.rs met. ‘Unable to op- payments. In addition, all fu- ations are the most common in got sick suddenly, got operations willingly organized when the pen-| ate. the management junked neral expenses were paid, have their cards checked, But/they never had to have before. sion fund became activated 80|¢he mine. The union was triumthere are no’ grievances in the{Too many doctors and Qentists they could be eligible—even pn, n¢ because nonunion produc- pension and welfare payments, a should be continued—have no Pity though it meant closing the mine. sn nad been cut off and the An example is the Black Betty men were happy to retire and get mits miners and their families
heen operated as a “co-op”
Extravagance, Inefficiency
In every community are scores of examples of undese ter, No. 2091, was installed by organizer Ernle Goad, When the Who got pension and welfare benefits, These are the cases most recent strike started, shere nines. They spent most of their 2nd filers in the mines criticize and blame the fund's administrators
onth welfare payments.
In Pike County, a relative of a union official oid a butcher most | fOr publication. If there are two miners, neither one will talk. |[to. They
ey of the ‘southern
Examples of similar mines Inby small operators, whose mines| Cr [OF 60 days, got a pension life. During 1947 and 1943 But a surv | / fields discloses that |
. - “and retired. He : is reputedly d the Pike County District are the,are locally called “gopher” or he was employed as a watchman Indiana mine | $50,000 t a ap ON abandoned. On revolt is festering under the sur- the 20-cent assessment on a ton of 56 men In good standing and 20 The gopher hole operators de-| hl . . {the basis of his two-year watch- face, ' of them actively employed in the fend their position. Why shouldn't! OP® man in Vigo County putin, "au ties he is on $80 welfare. Elderly miners in many cases efficiently. They do not want a in In Sullivan County, a saloon refuse to quit their jobs and re- higher assessment witn the reNo. 2, with 12 actives and a mem- bors, employees? A Terre Haute mines. He had a hernia but he keeper for 35 years after he quit tire because they feel the pension sultant increase bership list of 50. {gopher mine operator, through Was able to work, He legitimately nis mine job, draws $80 a month system is here today and gone to-| Majority of the men in these whose mine have gone at least|recelved his pension and got his welfare and is complaining that morrow. [takin mines had spent a good deal of eight pensions. for old-timers ‘em- Nerinia operation while in retire- ne can't get the $100 pension. He| Young miners are worried be- the UMW and placed in govern- £ their lives working In coal mines ployed years ago, said he wouldn't ment—at a cost of $100. {hadn’t put in 20 years work 35. cause they feel there will be not |ing to retire on if the present sy In Vigo County, a man who tem of disbursing pensions an worked only a few years in the] A Boonville mine owner said company and retired on $80-a- died last spring in his 80's was welfare is continued.
Rutty Roads Are Daily Peril To School Children, Says Bus Driver
years ago.
Lila Leeds Not Hired, Says” Kentucky Club in Girls School Road.
|dered out of California for
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{after her arrest on a char intoxication, ’
|—High Vatican sources said to-!
These sources sald that Ales-
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tions, Pa 84 the union's business. I Iped Possible to pay the union scale price of the land. ganizers who did the chartering] “What if we navent worked “8 UES ® UREA. Ce eIped, cause of the age of the men and,
activity around here.
run a grocery 18 years after LA re Suplous Joan ~~ Workers operations.
Chuckholes Cost $900 in Repairs During
First Year of New Vehicle's Operation
A new school bus rolled along a paved highway, covering its | dafly 68-mile route. As the bus gained speed, a front wheel sheared . | from its lugs. The front of the bus sagged and dropped at a crazy | angle. But there were no injuries. 4 | Clarence Toler, RR 18, Box "587, was driving the vehicle, | delivering some of his Ben Davis High Schoo EN Clermont. His greatest fear is {that the incident will repeat itself {because of the-ruts and bumps
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. |Mine near Brazil. Forty to 50 their pensions. One of them said: fee medical care. A. Terre 8 Active, 36 on Union Roll - {men had worked in it under a “co-| “We were tired of working any: Haute doctor sajd: The state is honeycombed with other “old mews lochls,” as they operative” plan since 1930. When how. We were ready to quit” | “Welfare sure stirred up a lot of
“Only minor patching jobs have appointment of three been done in the past 10 years. A- study ' Bystanders watch Patrolman Robert Plas. [cardinals-legate to open: the Holy The road. is in. worse shape now, give first aid to Les Feltmore, 28, of 350 Manson Ave. A motor cle passenger, he received Doors of Three Basilicas for the that anytime in the past 25 i 1950 Holy Year. |years.”
. ; acai a “Drivers can't dodge all the. > } ___oa® |sandro Cardinal Verde will be ap- holes,” Mr. Toler continued. “They! Heat Wave $ Over Cash, Recognition Await {pointed to open the Holy Door of are forced to use low gear over {the Basilica of St. Mary Major, most
- So Look for Cold |» Cy Clement | Cardinal M blacktop.” : The weatherman sald a six-day Good Old Days Winners Imade legate for opening the Hous Te adbeking his high school
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| COVINGTON, Ky. Nov. 12! For about a mile the bus dodges, (UP)—Actress Lila Leeds, or- between holes in the road between five [10th and Wall Sts. At two points] § Years by a judge, will not appear it is forced off the roadway to) {at the Lookout House night club clear some of ‘the deeper holes.| {Private vehicles follow the same Sam Alex, Lookout House man- procedure. lager; sald, “Miss Leeds’ engage-| when {ment at the Lookout House was ionly tentative. She was submitted
the present bus was started on the route it was new. to us and has been turned down.” In its first year it was damaged Miss Leeds was on probation !0 the extent of $900 In repair| {after she and Actor Robert bills, Mr. Toler said. | Mitchum spent 55 days in jail{ Two springs needed replace # [on a marihuana charge. The judge ment, the radiator was broken! ; dered her out of California twice, the battery casing splint8¢ Of ered and wheel lugs cracked until |one "WHéel" dropped off later on|
> charged with the safety of the) * Holy Doors for Holy Year - VATICAN CITY, Nov. 12 (UP) PU | “I'm afraid the road in that con-
% dition is going to cause .another yg 987 that Pope Pius XII will con- gecident,” Mr. Toler declared.
{voke a secret consistory Dec. 12! {for the
sections of the onetime
. : { Door of St. John the Lateran, and pupils, Mr, Toler makes a return; aM fotecast a» high pn Readers Invited to Submit Anecdotes {Eugenio Cardinal Tisserant for (trip over the route hauling grade a 8 to- * i * | th : lerx. day, po For Times Popular Color Comic Feature le Hisly Door of St. Paul outside school children to classes in Cler-| For the first time In nearly a/ How many times have you told someone about “the good old ~ oo —————— a =
contingent upon his| “Miners’ wives present a big and It was im- getting a job in addition to the problem. Ordinarily they'd come OPera in and get a prescription, be told) A Pike County ex-miner owned there was nothing wrong with all iMculty of mechanizing the a grocery store for 16 years. Helthem and pay the fee, and they anda
surgical cases. Miners who think In addition to the monthly the welfare fund is fine and
quarrel with the !
But they wonder when they
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| pel lly in existence, not . : had worked for him in years past. and welfare benefits, the men im-| from 1930 to 1934 on mine prop-ithat if somebody else is paying petua Coal Pits, Lewis Revolt Simmers “It I could help y fellow 1 mediately organized what was erty that he had sold to a coal for it they want ody thie best. [today and (Continued From Page One) | hills. “We're entitled to pensions,” Would. It wasn't my business to XNOWn in the community as the company,
surgical cases.
not at the mercy of
tors and the public. : Miners in our community setup to handle the fund.
welcome an Investigation is considerable doubt among the : Wo the stink that you pour on young fellows that there will he it,” sald two miners at Linton. (any pensions when they retire”
be . ’ ‘If a Miner Opens His Mouth . . .* A 70-year-old miner at Linton has put in more than 20 years in rm a good union man, too, and have been all the years I'vy been working, but this setup is the rottenest thing I've ever been through. I'd like to stir up something but if I did, they'd jerk my hear about the Vigo County/card in a minute. For a miner who_ opens his mouth, life in the
miner who retired on pension and mines can be hell thén. got his son, employed in #& ly/good position in a brewery, an in false teeth and glasses. Some'appendectomy free of charge.
rine Revolt Festers Under Surface
For the first time in the history of Indiana mining, the miners ,qx me when are you going for extravagance, inefficiericy, mismanagement and for letting gre beginning to wonder about John L. Lewis. In many cases, retire and I tell them right back
the doubt has grown to an open distrust of high United Mine at you.
10" see: “in eget treat 3h he krupt tomorrow, ture of miners’ fund Sy the coal shaky. We should bave ‘some
| “I'm not going to quit until I know there's going to be a pension. I ask other old fellows when are you going on a pension and they say when it’
i . ve 3 r Miki ¢ : . bn 4 1 :
The, . Sere: te The fund will come back one.of
eT rr uu RS——————— | done as much for us as a mortal human could, but really he {oughtn’t to be handling the wel.
man, he made some mistakes,
|{these days and we'll all have {profited by our mistakes.
Somebody ought to stir this Control over the minefields ig
{thing up. It's a cinch the Individually, some of them will talk to a reporter—but not jons won't because they're a
Majority of them believe that)... qaown here.
of coal is sufficient if administered
{fund taken out
s-|pany, or some setup d the railroad brotherhoods. ‘The hear as you travel abou ‘majority of them would like to| minefields. ae
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per ton of tol. going Jobe: pent. Many of the miners want the why no nton? : back in the ‘WPA days
of the hands of
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{the - fund. But they
un- just like Hitler's and Mussolini's,
fraid Only here there is no under 'd like to. Trouble is ground. Everybody is afraid. {we've got nothing but a dictator- | “Political organizations arg
| being maintained through the
nother Linton miner said: [fund for a bunch of labor polis ne miners certainly are not! ticians. . . . The fund will have avor of reckless spending of to be aired and very soon, . , , know it's Lewis has ball up 4 private physie spent some place, so cal and political army that ton? It's just like can't be penetrated. . . . The We're money that hag been spent for
everything we can get. worthy old miners and their fam-
h- ment hands, an’ insurance com- Everybody loves it.”
r he sentiments similar to) Thess are the t the went back too far into the past
“Lewis has| for too nany people. . ,
of
{ities is justified, but the fund you! tried to take in everybody. It
Fareed to the edge of Girls School Rd. to dodge chuck holes, this bus driver fears accidents ree | ; smooth highway, the driver said. sulting from the “beating” given vehicles by the rough roadway. #3 Cardinals to Open [He pays the bill. He is also
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