The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-19
OLDSCALESUBMITTED
NO CHANGE IN PRIoE or UNION
 WAGES.
Col. T. O. Bush and Several Comnier- eiaI Coal Operators VIII Sign Up-~-NO Lay OnH
 For Funerals.

Birmingham. June 1S,-(Special, ,)-7 Tre United Mine Workers of America Alabama District No. 90, have offered to the operators who deal with the union a renewal of the contract for mining coal as has been In effect since 1908 and several of the operators have sisnified their intentions of signing contracts.
 At the Joint conference of the union miners and operators held in Gelders Hall this morning, Ed Flynn was se- Iactad as chairman. The operators nresent were Col T. q. Bush, President of the Alabama Consolidated steel ana Iron Company, D. M. and W. M Brsn- nen, of the Palos Coal and Coke com nany. |. e. Darlington of the slocum Mines Chairman Flynn announced that he had received word from D. F. Roden. chairman of the committee or fine Commercial Coal Operators Asso- citation. to the ecefft that his committee would be pleased to receive the com mittee of the union miners on Wednes- day morning. .s The report of the scale committee or the union miners was read. It recom- mended a renewal of the present con tract which has a sliding scale for minz ing based on the average selling price of pig iron, ranging from 47 1-2 to ST 1-2 cents per ton, with Iron selling rom *S to s11.50 per ton.
 Col. T. G. Bush, the representative or the only iron company dealing with union coal miners, arose in the conIer- ence immediately after the scale com pnittee had made It's report and an- nounced that he would receive com mittee at any time to sign the scale The other coal operators present made the same announcement. The miners then appointed a committee to call on Colonel Bush tomorrow morning and on the Commercial Coal Operators Com mittee "wednesday morning to sisn the wage scale and adjournment was taken until Thursday morning.
 In a little speech before the miners Colonel Rush stated that the miners with flush times were not taking ad- vantage of every opportunity and were laying off too much, He said that the companies were anxious to get all the men to work just as much as they could and that it cost just as much to run the mines with 50 per cent of the min CTS in the mines as with all of them in. He said that the rules calling for the stoppage of pines when there was death in the mining camp worked a hardship.
 He said that on one occasion he went to one of his mtning camps and found that there was likeness because of a death but when he went to look around he ascertained that many miners were digging bait to go fishing instead of attending the funeral and that was not treating the company right, he thought.
 The convention of the miners has de- cided to request all locals to take steps to put a stop to stopping off work except when a fatal accident takes place in the mines. The wage scale also re- commended that where a miner was suspended for alleged violation of rules that after an investigation if the com pany was in the wrong for suspending the miner that the latter be paid for the time lost.
 There is no doubt but that all com | panies which have been dealing with the union miners will sign the scale and there will be no Interruption of work at these coal mines. Absolutely no intimation was given at the meet | ing today that furnace companies not dealing with the union miners will sign the scale. The union miners have hopes | that when Frank Fl. Crockard, the new Vice President and General Manager of | the Tennessee Coal. Iron and Railroad Company returns from the east that he l can be approached by the leaders and offered the contract for signature.