The Glen Burn Slopes Stop in 1960

On May 13, 1960, William H. Moore, vice president of the Susquehanna Collieries Company, announced a suspension of operations at the Maysville No. 1 and No. 2 slopes and other operations supplying coal to the Glen Burn breaker. The News-Dispatch's 1964 history preserved the announcement as another interruption in the colliery's long operating history.

Moore attributed the move to a large inventory of coal and market fluctuations. The retrospective reported approximately 710 employees affected by the close-down order. That figure describes the workers the paper said were affected; it does not supply their names, individual employment outcomes or the duration of each person's lost work.

The account also recorded a return to activity rather than a final abandonment. It placed the restart of the Maysville slopes on August 1, 1960, exactly two weeks after activity had resumed at Glen Burn Colliery. Those separate resumptions show that the parts of a large operation did not necessarily return to work together. The May announcement and summer restarts belong to one interruption and its follow-up.