The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-20
Miners VIII Begin Consideration
 of New Scale Today
WANT MAXIMUM RAISED
Two and a Half or Five Gents, 1t Is Thought, Will Be the Limlt-Del- egates Entertained at
 Banquet.

It Is probable that the scale committee of the United Mine Workers who have been busy on a scale demand since Tues day. will be ready to report to the con vention this morning.
 The report will be made In executive session, and every precaution will be taken to prevent the demands leaking out before they are presented to the op- orators in this city Monday.
 Only brief session of the conven- tion was held yesterday and there being nothing to do until the scale committee was ready with a report, adjournment was taken until this morning and many of the delegates came to Birming- ham and some went to their homes for the day. The scale committee labored necessarily all day, and night session was held. There Is little doubt but that they will be ready some time this morn Ing.
 Want an Elght-Hour Day.
 Any surmise as to the demands would be the merest conjecture. but 1t is mos likely to contain an 8-hour day provision, a two weeks pay provision, and 1t Is possible that request will be made to raise the maximum 2h or , cents. An other matter that will receive careful attention Is the scale of the day men. Many of thls class do not feel that they are as well protected as the diggers.
 The convention will try to get through with the scale by Saturday night. The joint conference will be held in Birming- ham beginning at 10 o'clock in Odd Eel lows Hall, corner Fourth avenue ano Nineteenth street. This Is on account oi the operators wishing to be close to their offices during the day.
 Mine Disaster.
 The convention adopted red-hot reso- lution on the Fraterville, Tenn, mine disaster It follows:
 Whereas, It has come to our knowledge that serious and grave catastrophe or disaster has befaIlen 234 of our fellow craftsmen at Fraterville. Tenn, and whereas, without the slightest token of warning death overlook them in the per formance of their daily toll. by an explo- sion of gas which dealt death to all within its deadly reach, and whereas. said explosion was caused by negligence and lack of care on the part of the mine officials who, like many other States have no regard for human life with the exception of that pound of flesh" which they extort from their employees. and whereas we view with alarm the ever increasing fatalities and disasters in and around the mines through lack of proper mining laws and the enforcement of what few laws do exist, therefore be 1t
 Resolved. By tho miners of Alabama in convention assembled. that we condemn the inhrman treatment afforded the miners of Fraterville Tenn, in the ap- parent neglect of the mine management in not taking the proper precauSons to prevent the said disaster that has oc- cured at tho aforesaid mines; and be 1t furtho-
 sincere brotherly sympa thy to the widows md orphsns the be-caved mothers and to all who suffered the loss of loved ones, who in the performance of the Biblical injunction to learn their bread by the sweat of their brow" went forth on that bright May morning with light hearts, pever thinking nor dreaming that their last farew ell of loved ones at home had been taken, never thinking that in the prime of their manhood the death reaper was in their wake, that through the cruel and heartless carelessness Of their em- ployers .n the twinkllng Of m eye all the bright hopes and plans of the future would De blignted-that their homes would be desolated: that the cry of the widows and tue walls of orphan children would be waited to the world; that the support CT and comforter had been suddenly called from life to the great beyond" through TO fault nor error of theirs; yes. called away by the ruthless. cruel. greedy grasp of a soulless corpor ation whose only interest in humanity Is to gather the harvest from the miners labor regardless of life or limb, widows or orphans or any ard Ill who suffer by such sad loss; therefore. be 1t
 Resolved, That we recommend that a donation of s10c be grant sd to assist the hereayed families of those who lost their lives in the dist ster at Fratervillo mines, Tennessee. Tke report was received and ccncurred in.
 The resolutions committee brought in elso resolutions concerning the iioa strous Gre that swept ovGr Alexander City a few days ago and the convention voted s5O be rent to the relief ofSthe town.
 Delegates Entertained.
 The citizens of Besserrer entertained the delegates with a banquet at the Blu ! eau of Information Hall last night. The spread as well prepared and was highly enjoyed.
 The committees who have had charge of the entertainment of the delegates are: Chairman of all committee, Thos. T. Huey; secretary, W. P. Gum.
 Committee on finance J. J. Sullivan, W. L. Rush, J. c. Vines.
 Committee or homes, J. Marks. W. D. Lanier and B. c. Rogers.
 Committee on Arrangements-R. B. Howard, Sam Stein and Smith Eidge.
 Committee on Badges-Louis Forst, A S. Req and Ed Workman.
 Reception Committee-T. Huey. R. W. Hockins, John Kikel. c. & Drumheller,