Employment of Mine Foremen

Rial, Deputy Attorney General,

Your letter of November 22,1939, raises a question as to the employment of mine foremen in bituminous coal mines. This may be stated as follows:

Where a number of co-owners or a partnership.owns and operates a bituminous coal mine and five men or more are actually engaged in the mining of the coal, either as co-owners or co-owners and employes, does the Bituminous Coal Act of June 9, 1911, P. L. 756, in article IV, sec. 1, as amended by the Act of June 1,1915, P. L. 716, sec. 2, and as amended by the Act of July 1, 1937, P. L. 2486, sec. 4, 52 PS §871, require the…