Birmingham state herald., 1897-05-08

l tHs WOIks or thiS company al the places | named will continue in operation without ( cessation. The contract, as signel, reads as follows:
 CONTRACT i Between the Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad Company and the Pratt i Miners:
 Birmingham, Ala, May z, 1897. | The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company and the duly authorized repre- l sentatives of the miners from Pratt mines, including slope No. and West ! and East Pratt mines, have this day 1 agreed upon the following contract fixing 1 the price of mining coal at the places named above from May 10, 1897, until 1 June 30, 1898:
 The price of mining at Pratt mines to 1 be "a minimum of STE cents per ton or | car, as now Iaid for when No. l fou. '! y | pig iron nets the Tennessee Chal. Iron and Railroad company $7.50 CT less f. o. b. cars at the furnace. and for every ad- vance of 50 cents per ton in the net price received for No. 1 foundry iron there shall be an advance of 21a cents in the price of mining until the net price re- celved for No. 1 foundry iron reaches S10 per ton, when the price Of mining would be 50 cents. Thereafter the price of mining shall advance 21a cents for each Sl dQVdnce Tn the net price rectlNeu Iol' No. l foundry iron. The coal is to be weighed during the continuance of this contract at all the mines where it Is now being weighed, and check weighmen are to be allowed as in the past. At other mines cal is to be paid for by the car, as is the case at this time. The price of iron to be determined as
 follows: The miners to appoint one or more duly authorized representative to act for th5m and such representative CT representatives to meet with the repre- sentative or representatives of the com
 pany not later than the 5th day of each
 month, and at such meeting to examine
 all books, sales, memoranda or other
 evidence in the possession of the com pany as might show the actual average price at which the Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad company sold No 1 foun-
 dry iron in the previous month and such price when determined to be announced by the representatives to both the min CTS and the company and to be binding upon both.
 If the representa- tives of the miners and the company fail t- agree as to
 what was the ssiling price of No. l foundry iron for any month. then they are to agree upon and call upon ano;her person who is not miner nor an employ of :he company, who shall, up5n inves- ] tigation on the actual scales made, de- termine the prics, and such determlna- tion shall be binding upon both parties to the contract. The expenses of the represen' atiVe or representa- tives of tn: miners to be reg ulated and paid by tn am. Such expenses to be pro-rated by the committee at so
 much per miner whose name appears cn the roll, and to be collected by che company and turned over to the commit tee.
 Dead work and day la bor in the mines,
 ,J oDt of min nd hS in cr
 price of powder 10 be governed by the
 mining scale as at present. Mining rules to be the same as at present. No dis
 elimination is to made in the distri-
 button of work against the colored min CTS, but all competent color5d men are to have an equal chance a all work. No further sub-contf acts, which means the contracting of a portion of the mine, will be made by the company at Prat. mines, and those now in existence will be discontinued with the exception of two. No reference is here made to Slope No. or West and East Pratt Mines. All present and future miners laborers are to be given a. set of ch:cks each, and are to be given also full miners turn each.
 Boys turns are to be regulated as may be mutually agreed between the repre- sentatives of the miners and the com pany.
 A square turn in the mines is to be Kept except where It IS shown to be nec- essary to be otherwise. Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co. G. B. Mccormack, G. M Adam Pow, No. f. George Barbour, No 5. Ed Flynn, No. 2. w. R. Fairley, John Lamont, West Pratt
 R. H. Skinner, No. T. H. Haywood, No. 4. A. Gray No. G. Hugh Murphy, No. 5. James Liddel, No. 5. Sandy Williams, No. 3. s. l.. Brooks, No. 5 J. H. Saffold, Drifts. James Holmes, Drifts Samuel Doak, Drifts. T. H. Tinnier, No. 3. J. J. Ray, West Pratt Hugh Harvey Mo- 6. J. w. Gurth, West Pratt. William Grady, No. 6. J. J. Sullivan, No. 2. ACHIEVEMENTS ARRIVED AT. The company agrees to the following conditions, to be known as mining rules 1. On the slate question: Sundays and idle days do not count in suspension. 2. Miners to get their statements in full.
 B. No men shah have their turn stopped for refusing to drive. 1. No cars oo be loaded on idle days, and If so, the amount loaded shall be kept off thelr turn. |, Nu A1f ATTT DifccF