The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-28
Operators Report Yesterday Re- ceiI6d by Convention With
 Profound Silence
CONVENTION AT STANDSTILL
 AND NO ONE SPOKE 4 WORD
Adjournment Until This Morning and It Is ! bought the Convention May Go Over Until Whole Matter
 Referred Back to Locals.

MT. Chairman and Gentlemen-As chairman of the joint scale committee l am requested to report the result. We have arrived at no conclusion, and the matter stands just like it was when we reported yesterday morning. The miners committee insists upon their scale being adopted. The coal operators are equal ly as strong, unwilling and unable to meet that demand. They believe and they know that they have gone as far as they can. We might as well face the issue. They have gone far as they can. After deliberate consideration they have offered to renew the scale of last year"
 This was the statement addressed to the delegates of the United Mine Work orators. yesterday morning at the ap- pointed meeting in Fox's Hall at 10 o'clock. There was no other word spoken on either side either by the operators or the mine workers It was a silence deep and continued. But 1t was a silence that was hard to construe Every representa- tive present was intensely interested, and on nearly every face was grim smile of determination. And 1t was evi- dent that during the meeting both the operators and the miners were satisfied with the demonstration they had made and both seemed positive in their respec- tive positions.
 You have heard the report, what Is the pleasure of the conventionT' finally said Chairman Ed Flynn. But the siienc still remained unbroken.
 We'll" continued the chairman. it seems that this convention is at a stand. still. There is now nothing before the convention and if there is no objection I will declare the convention adjourned until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. The convention stands adjourned until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
 Prominent members of the United Mine Workers organization seen after the ad- journment of the convention would make no statement for publication, and in fact were avtrse to talking at all They all expressed the hope of settlement and that perhaps something definite would be decided upon by the time of the meeting of the joint convention tomorrow morn- ing
 The miners held meeting yesterday morning at o'clock at St. Paurs Hall, and while not stated officially, it was hinted that they decided to stand firmly by their proposition.
 A prominent operator stated yesterday afternoon that the outlook for an ad- iu uatp nulx doubtful. Indeed, he stated that he ex- pected no scale to be signed until after the 17th of July, on which date the na- tional executive committee of the United Mine Workers of America would hold their meeting in Indianapolis Ind An other reason he assigned as to the possi- bility of the scale committee not agree ing now was the fact that one of the main questions to come before the na- tional meeting In Indianapolis Is the matter of the miners strike in Pennsyl- vania and West Virginia, and the likeli- hood that, unless this strike was adjust ed in the meantime of all United Mine Workers in the country being called out in sympathetic strike. Other members of the Operators Association, however, were more optimistic and thought that there was stul fair chance or com promise being arranged and the scale signed before the convention adjourned.
 In case of no agreement being reached at the joint conference tomorrow it Is highly probable that the convention will adjourn and the matter of all differences between the operators and miners taken up in the different local unions A pleasing feature of the convention Is the good humor of all parties at interest on both sides In fact, they all appear to be the very best of friends and evidently agree on every subject but the all-im- portant ones of the scale.