The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-26
SCALE OF OPERATORS
PROPOSITION OF THE EMPLOYERS
OF THE MINERS.


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Rirminshaun. June 25.-(SpeciaL)--
The scale committee OF the Furnace
operators' Association and the United
Mine workers of America held ses-
sion this morning and took up the
miners proposition section by section.
The convention OF the miners recon-
yened this afternoon and the scale
committee reported that they were not
ready to report. A motion prevailed
that the proposition of the Furnace
Operators Association be read in open
convention and the chairman or the
scale committee read II.
1t offers a minimum Of 10 cents per
ton for mining when the average SELL
ing price of pig iron Is $3.50 per ton,
against Al Ia cents at present, and a
maximum of IS cents per ton with
average selling price of pig iron at $13
per ton, against 81 Ia cents per ton
at present. A reduction is made for
day laborers, such as drivers trappers
and blacksmfths. There are some
changes proposed in mining rules The
monthly pay day is again asked for
and nine hours are given as a days
work for inside laborers and ten hours
for outside laborers. Nine hours at
| the face of the coal or in the rooms in
the mines worked are set as the maxi
| mum for days work.
Mr. w. R. Farley. national board
member of the miners, reported that
he believed that the scale committee
would be able to report back to the
convention by Wednesday OF the COM
ing week and he thought that 1t would
be advisable for the convention to re-
convene then so that the miners and
the public could be informed what was
going to be done by the miners. His
| suggestion was accepted and adjourn
ment taken until Wednesday. II is be-
| lieved that the scale committees will
| fail on agreeing to a contract and a
suspension of work at the mines is
probable after July /.
Baked at the Marriage.
Rev. e. L. Roy, pastor of the Meth
| odist Episcopal Church at Gamble
Mines and Nauvoo, in Walker county,
is in Birmingham having just returned
from Diamond. in Marshall county,
where he went to be married Wednes-
day of this week. On the day of the
marriage his bride-to-be Miss Lula
Johnson, aged IS, daughter of a pros
porous farmer and merchant at Dia-
mond, mysteriously disappeared and a
note found left by the young lady in
timated that she intended drowning
herself
Inc nOtS was uAleQ juno Alr inc
wedding being set for June %. The
morning of June %, Rev. Mr.. Roy
says, he went to the COW lot with his
intended bride and offered to assist
her in milking, but she declined the
proffer. He went to the store OF the
girls father and then the girl disap-
peared. The note found Is quite pathet-
ic. 1t begins thus: "Ah, my heart is
grieved to tell you all I must leave this
old world. All, 1 couldn't marry some
one 1 do not love. l would spend a
miserable life, so / must die this very
night. When you find me you will find
me in some river, in Tennessee river.
You must all know 1 die hating Rev.
e. l.. Roy. I have lost all hopes of
ever winning heaven so I'll die in des-
pair. Dear girls, tale warning by
me, don't learn to flirt with the young
men. All. If you do you one day be
sorry. You all see what 1t lead me
to, to drown myself and cause my peo-
pie to grieve my loss"
Rev. Mr.. Roy says that the young
| lady was most charming. He pays her
the highest compliment. He does not
believe that she has killed herself and
expects that her family will have heard
from her in a short while. He is great
| ly distressed over the affair and says
| that he was compelled to get treat
ment at the hands of a physician, being
broken down over the dreadful occur
renee,