Employment Terminations

From Coal Mining Town Records

Housed in the Old Mine 31 Lamp House

Report of Discharge or Suspension


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United States Steel Corporation

Coal Division


Lynch, Kentucky

The main objective of these records is publicise the fact that there was other behavior and activities in a coal miners life that the coal mine company would not tolerate. [Names are not published so as to protect the next of kin].

YEAR 1940
MINE NO 31 --CHECK NO -- OCCUPATION
- 8/26 - 2991 - Loader
Drawing powder scrip on another man

- 11/8 - 3109 - Coal Loader
Placed his check number on another
man's car of coal.

- 11/23 - 4923 - Foreman
Violation of Company Safety Rules
Dropping empty cars from side track
into working places. His man, while
dropping cars from side track was
injured [fractured back]

YEAR 1937
MINE NO 30 -- CHECK NO -- OCCUPATION
10/23 - 106 - Loader
Fighting in mines

OUTSIDE - 7/3 - 6287 - Carpenter
Supposed to be ball player
couldn't make the team -
Cut off as agreed with mgr -

MINE NO 31 - 8/16 - 4746 - Pump Repairman
Discharged for disobeying foremans
instructions

MINE NO 31 - 8/22 - 2984 - Loader
Discharged for being garnesheed
2nd time

OUTSIDE - 7/6 - 6300 - Carpenter (Ball Player) Cut off couldn't make baseball team - as
agreed with manager

OUTSIDE - 6/22 - 6286 - Carpenter (Ball Player) Cut off couldn't make baseball team - as
agreed with mangager

YEAR 1936
MINE NO 30 -- CHECK NO -- OCCUPATION
2/5 - 249 - Coal Loader
Discharged for hitting section foreman
with his fist without provocation

MINE NO 31 - 4/20 - 3243 - Brakeman
Can not justify as a brakeman. Refused
offer to change to loading

MINE NO 31 - 8/14 - 2796 - Coal Loader Fair miner but will not comply with
instructions - not timbering - shooting
coal and scrapping bottom properly

MINE NO 31 - n/d - 3148 - Brakeman
Discharged for laying off half of the time
(stays intoxicated)

MINE NO 30 - 1/8 - 629 - Coal Loader
Was hired as an experinced miner. Didn't
know anything

MINE NO 31 - 1/7 - 1745 - N/A
Discharged for stealing coal

YEAR 1935
OUTSIDE -- CHECK NO -- OCCUPATION - 5/8 - 4163 - Painter
Because he cannot paint

OUTSIDE - 8/7 - 4105 - Car Dropper
Throwing a rail road switch while car
was passing over it derailing two cars
and endangering his own life and the life
of another car dropper - "Very Careless"

YEAR 1934
MINE NO 30 -- CHECK NO -- OCCUPATION - 6/19 - 497 - Labor
Claimed to be a brakeman when hired
Couldn't brake

- 6/20 - 1045 - Labor
Claimed to be a machine-runner when hired
Couldn't run

- 7/11 - 1120 - Labor
Cut-off-reducing the force: Also reliably
reported that he had been coming to work
partly drunk. Asked for time.