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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1911 Excerpt: ... CONDITIONS EXISTING IN WESTMORELAND COAL FIELDS. Committee On Rules, House Of Representatives, Wednesday, May 31, 1911. The committee met at 10.40 o'clock a. m., Hon. Robert L. Henry presiding, having under consideration House resolution 179, to empower and direct the Committee on Labor of the House of Representatives to make a thorough and complete investigation of the conditions existing in Westmoreland coal fields. The Chairman. Gentlemen, we will proceed with the consideration of the resolution introduced by Mr. Wilson of Pennsylvania. Mr. Wilson, we will hear from you. STATEMENT OF HON. WIIIIAM B. WILSON, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA. Mr. Wilson. Mr. Chairman, House resolution 179 asks that the Committee on Labor be given authority to investigate certain conditions existing in the Westmoreland coal fields in Pennsylvania. The Westmoreland coal field of Pennsylvania is a spur of the great Pittsburg coal field. It is located just east of the Pittsburg coal field proper. It might be well, before stating what evidence we expect to present, to make a preliminary statement of the causes leading up to the strike which occurred there on the 10th of March, 1910. The Westmoreland coal field has been a nonunion coal field for a great many years, although adjacent to the Pittsburg coal field, which is a union coal field. The wages in the Westmoreland coal field vary, ranging all the way from 58 cents per car containing a ton and a half of minerun coal to 89 cents per car for coal passed over an inch and a quarter screen. In the Pittsburg region proper the mining rate is 67.1 cents per ton of mine-run coal; it is 95 centsper ton for coal passed over an inch and a quarter screen. In the Westmoreland field nothing is paid for dead work, ...