The age-herald., 1900-06-30
MINING CONTRACT
 EXPIRES TODAY New Wage Scale Not Yet Agreed
 Upon. STRIKE DEEMED IMPROBABLE Committee of Operators and Miners For mulating New Contract Question of Suspending Work Comes
 Up in Convention Today
STRIKE DEEMED IMPROBABLE

The present contract between the coal operators and the miners of Alabama pires today, and unless the convention now in session orders the men to continue work under it until a. new contract can be drawn up and agreed upon general cessation of work will take place Monday morning.
 The joint committee of operators and miners appointed by the convention Thurs day afternoon met in FoX's hall at 10 o'clock yesterday morning, and began the work of trying to agree upon some con tract acceptable to both sides The first business taken under consideration was the question of an advance in the price of mining. motion to recommend this was rejected, the miners voting for and the operators against it.
 The question of a uniform scale of wages for day men was then taken up and ar gued at some length
 The committee organized by the election of T. H. Aldrich, vice president and gem eral manager of the Sloss-Sheffield Steel
 
 and Iron Company, as chairman and w. S. Sweeney of Adger and H. S. Matthews of the Graves Mining Company as sec retaries.
 A subcommittee of three members from each side was appointed to formulate contract and report .back to the full com mittee. The committee consists of the fol- lowing members: Operators-F. M. Jack son, general manager of the Alabama Con- solidated Coal & Iron Company; Erskine Ramsay, assistant general manager of the Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad Com pany; Pete B. Thomas, manager of the Southern Cahaba Mining Company. Miners John S. Lloyd of Warner Dave Johnson of Blocton and Frank Fournier of Pratt City. President Baxter of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, and National Committee w. R. Fairley were designated as advisory members of the subcommittee.
 Immediately after it's appointment this committee retired to begin work on the scale.
 The Miners Convention
 The miners convention met at the usual hour yesterday morning and again in the afternoon. The afternoon session adourneu immediately on converting. At the morning session the question of continuing work under the contract now in existence after today until a new contract can be made was called up, but the president stated that it was not in order to discuss the matter at that time. He said a. committee was then out trying to agree upon contract. He further stated that today would be time enough for that question to be dis cussed.
 A motion was made, and adopted, to the effect that none but officers of the con- yention and members of the voting com nittee be allowed seats on the stage
 Some of the delegates took offense at paragraph in the Age-Heralds report of Thursdays proceedings of the joint con- vention of miners and operators The Age HeraIds report stated: "A delegate from Sayreton said the Republic Iron and Steel Company had been very lenient with the miners; that the yard men had been ad- vanced 15 cents and that the men were satisfied" The delegate stated that the price paid for digging coal and the dock age were satisfactory but that the drivers and some other day men wanted an in crease.
 A communication from the Furnacemen's Union at BesSemer, asking to be recog- nized on the present scale of the United Mine Workers of America District 20, was read and tabled. The convention held that while the Furnacemen's Union was affi- lated with the American Federation of Labor it was an organization separate from the United Mine Workers and they could not therefore take part in each others work.
 A motion to adjourn prevailed.
 Afternoon Session
 The convention was called to order at ? O clock by President Young and immediate ly a motion was made to adjourn. There was opposition to adjournng at that time and one delegate arose and asked if the delegates had been sent to Birmingham to play. A motion to table the motion to ad- journ prevailed and then the motion to adjourn until 10 o'clock today was adopted.
 The convention will reassemble at 10 o'clock this morning and if the joint com mittee is not ready with a report at that time it is prabable the question of con tinuing work under the contract now ex- isting will be called up. Opinion is divided as to what disposition will be made of this question.
 A member of the joint committee of the coal operators and miners stated last night that the committee would probably be ready to make a report to the joint conven- tion this morning. The subcommittee worked on the new scale last night and it is understood it will be ready at o'clock this morning to make some kind of