The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-01
Tennessee Company Has Two
Stacks Idle at EnsIGy and
One in the City
OTHER COMPANIES ARE
FOLLOWING SAME PLAN
Woodward Company Signs a Thirty
Day Agreement with Its Opera
tives and Work ls Continued
In Its Mines.

The United Mine Workers have quit
work and will remain out until such time
as the coal operators and themselves
reach an agreement on new wage scale.
The contract between the United Mine
Workers of America, Alabama District
No. 90, and the Coal Operators Asso-
citation, in effect for the past twelve
months. expired yesterday at p. m. and
no scale for the ensuing twelve months
having been signed, the result is cessa-
ton of work at all the mines operated by
members of the association.
In anticipation of the idieness of Its
coal mines from July l the Tennessee
Coal Iron and Railroad Company has
banked two of It's Ensiey furnaces and
its Alice furnace In this city, and others
will be banked as the present supply Of
coke is exhausted. 1t was learned at
the office of the company yesterday that
every preparation is being made for a
long idleness.
Furnaces Being Banked.
The Sloss- Sheffield steel and Iron
Company banked a furnace at Sheffield
last week and will bank one of It's fur
naces at North Birmingham this week.
The company has enough coke In stock
to run its other furnaces for some time.
The Republic Iron and Steel Company
is preparing to bank Its three furnaces
at Thomas. and In the course OF short
while nearly all the furnaces Of the dis
trict will be idle unless the United Mine
Workers and the operators settle the
scale question at issue.
The miners demand an advance of sc
ton over last year, an eight-hour day as
against a ten-hour day of last year and
a two-weeks pay day. Up to this time
the operators have declined to accede to
any one of those terms and the miners
have been Just as firm in pressing them.
The Woodward Iron Company. which
does not belong to the Operators Assoc
citation, signed a thirty days scale yes
terday and there will be no stoppage at
its mines. Both parties to the contract
declined to state the terms upon which
at Dolomite and the company employs
there about 900 men.
Other mines that are expected to con-
tinue in operation are those In Walker
County where non-union men are employ
ed, owned and managed by various large
companies.
Railroads Have Coal.
The railroad companies always lay in
large stocks of coal In June so as not to
be crippled In case of stoppage at the
mines in July. Supt B. M. Starks Of the
Louisville and Nashville reports that he
has enough coal in his bins to run for
two or three months, and Supt. C. s.
Hayden of the Southern says that he
has enough to run through the summer.
The Frisco is said to be likewise we'll
stocked.
THE situation yesterday was extremely
quiet. Mr.. w. R. Farley, Mr.. Ed Flynn
and other officials of the United Mine
Workers remained at their headquarters
all day.
information of public interest to give
out. The United Mine Workers and the
woodward Iron Company, he. stated. had
made a working agreement for thirty
days. but he did not feel at liberty to
divulge the terms.
Mr.. Farley, who is a member of the ma
tional executive committee, will not at
tend the national convention on the 18th
inst, but will remain here all the while,
unless the operators and the miners
reach en- agreement In the meantime.
Beth he and Mr.. Flynn appear to be In
the best Of spirits While they are ex-
tremely reticent as to what may or may
not appear In the way Of re-opening ne
gotiations, or rather how long they ex-
pect the operators and the miners to re-
main apart. they seem to be very hope
full of winning their demands. 1t is said
that the miners will hold meetings at
Epsley and Wylam today.
Discussing Conditions.
The Operators Association held no
meeting yesterday. and no meeting has
been called for today. Prominent opera
tors discussed the conditions cautiously
and few of them cared to venture any
opinion touching the outlook.
One of them. however. said that while