The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-08
NEGROES GO TO WORK
ALABAMA STRIKE SITUATION IS PRACTICALLY UNCHANGED.
Forty Miners Reported to Have Re- sumed Work at Blue Creek. They Will Be Protected
 by Deputies.

Birmingham Oct. 7.-CSpeciaD-rhere ia no change today in the strike situatioll fin the mines of the Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad Company, where somethihs like ROO men are on<a strike, as a re- s,,lt tsf fhs reIusaI of the company 70 collect the assessment from the wages or several miners for the anthracite strihers' who refused to pay the assessment
 Information has reached here' now ever, that about forty negro miners nave returned to work at the Blue Creek mines, where the miners yesterday voted m Ia yor of going out. It was learned here this afternoon that squad of thirty Deputy Sheriffs under the direction or Deputy Sheriff Henry Cole. will be sent to the Blue Creek mines this afternoon to uuell any disturbance that may occur as a result of the negroes going to work' It is understood that this action was taken at the request of the Tennessee Company, and this indicates that the company intends to carry the fight to the bitter end
 No accounts of any disorders have reached Birmingham so far today, anu the swearing in of the deputies IS only for safety. as a precautionary measure Should additional deputies be needed they will be dispatched to the scene at once The Q6pullcb VIII WSh ot AAA~A S~H~~ SNF piled with ample ammunition
 President Flynn of the United Mine Workers of Alabama, in statement made today about the convention at Johns yesterday. said:
 Between 800 and 900 miners were present, and the meeting was as harmo- niouns as any of the kind l ever attend- ed. Nick Guis presided.
 MT Fairly and myself made speeches in which we recited the history of the trouble and the action which had been taken so far.
 Two miners made speeches against the payment of the assessment.
 "A motion was made that the miners of the Blue Creek district abide by the action of the District Board. A rising vote assembly stood up except three. Two of these were the speakers to whom I have already referred.
 This action by the Blue Creek dis trict suspends work in all of the free la bOr mines of the Tennessee Company except that at Gamble. in Walker County. the output of which is domestic coal, and where about 100 men are employed. They have not been ordered out. The number of men who are out at the different mines is 4,200 in round numbers, as fol- lows:
 Pratt .-.......- ..........'..s......zl9O l9O West Pratt-S5O or ..................... 400 Blue Creek .....-.....-...-.......... %O
 Total .. ..... ........................4,l .4,l59
 Everywhere the men are !n good spir- its and fir min their adherence to the principle at issue"
 The result of the poll of the Sloss-Sh .f- field miners will eIch the headquart CTS of District 20 in this city this afternoon President Flynn says he is already ad- vised of the result of the poll and that only about fifty or sixty of the 200 mill e-s have refused to declare in writing in favor of the assessment for the anthra- cite strikers. As soon as the official Doll lists have been received the officers of District 20 will hold a conference with the officials of the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and