The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-17
MINING TROUBLES
 COMING ID HEAD  Operators and Miners Both Call Meeting for Tomorrow BOTH SlDESARE EXPECTANT
 
 Question of Strike or Peace Wifi Probably be Definitely Settled, and Persons Interested VII
 Know Where They Stand.
BOTH SI0ESARE EXPECTANT
Vill there be war or peace?

Will there be war or peaee7
 President Edward Flynn of the Mine Workers sent out notices yesterday call ing together the delegates from District No. 20. The delegates will be the same who met in June. and they will assemble in convention in Fox's Hall at the corner of Fourth avenue and Nineteenth street on Saturday at Ii o'clock in the morning
 Secretary A. II. Carpenter of the oper- ators' association sent out a notice yes- terday evening calling the operators to- gether at the Commercial club on satur- day afternoon at o'clock
 The operators meeting Is called, 1t Is, said. for the purpose of attending to rou- tine business, and perhaps to be in readi- ness to meet any call that the miners convention may possibly make upon them. It has no particular significance.
 The miners meeting is pregnant with possibilities. They may declare for a strike or they may accept the operators propositions and resume work. The of ficials at the miners headquarters had no statement to make
 Constant Stream of Callers.
 They were kept busy all day long. with a constant stream of callers, and there seemed to be an air of serious earnest ness among the officials that proclaimed realization on their part that some thing decisive in the situation is at hand
 One of the smaller operators In speak ing of the situation said: We who are commercial operators would be glad, from a selfish point of view, to see the matter remain in its present undecided condition for month or six weeks to come. We cannot sell our coal now if we mine 1t.
 "The larger operators. however. are anx- ious to have the matter settled. Some of them believe that with iron declining at the present rate, the advance of PIE cents on the minimum reaches the danger point and would almost experience a sense of relief if the miners refused to accept the proposal. Of course the oper- ators' proposal stands until definitely withdrawn or the miners refuse 1t and strike. On all sides the suspense is wear Ing on those Wno reel tlaI the IespouSl- bility of the situation rests with them. A strike would be little less than busi- ness crime no matter who brings 1t about"
 The Lewlsbura Case. VI
 There was large amount of discussion and incidentally misunderstanding. over the account which was published yester- day of the proposal made by the Ala bama Consolidated Coal and Iron com pany to It's miners at Lewisburg. The facts are that in mining under the scale there Is a differential between the ma- chine mining and hand mining. and the miners had intimated that if a new scale was adopted and work resumed they would prefer to work under a fiat day rate, so the proposed scale was submitted for discussion and argument in order that there might be no delay in getting to work after a scale was signed. That Is the whole story and the idea prevailing on some sides that Colonel Bush's company had made proposition indicating a breaking away from the operators asso- citation was erroneotls