The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-04
CONTRACT SIGNED
 WITH THE MINERS
OPERATORS WAIVE MONTHLY PAY DAY AND RIGHT TO EN- PLoY ONE DAY LABoRER FOR EACH MINER.

Representatives of the commercial coal l operators and the officials of the United Mine Workers of this district held joint conference yesterday and signed a new contract dating from July l. It is based l on last years contract. The operators had insisted on a monthly pay day instead l of twice a month, and the right to em- l ploy one day laborer for every miner em- 1 ployed. These points were finally waived 1 by the operators. The wage scale Is 571s cents a ton as the maximum, based on l the selling price of iron. 1 the milk license of F. Goldstein was re- voked The petition of Alderman Hogan | for a fire station on Fountain Heights was 1 referred to the fire committee. Mayor l Ward then declared the board adjourned.
 The following reports were all adopted, 1 except that referring to saloon license:
 Excise Committee. ] Present: Mayor Copeland CD. R), Cooper Hogan. Absent: Moore, Heidt.
 The committe recommends that the peti- l ton of P. Giocopazzi for a license to 1 operate a wholesale wine depot at 2024 Morris avenue ve granted. That the resolution revoking the license for saloons in blocks 11S and ll9 go over.
 The committee recommends that the sa- | loon license for 1908 be fixed at s250o per annum.
 Judiciary Committee.
 Present: Mayor, Fulghum, O'Nein Klotz, Jones. Absent: Moore, Forney. l The committee recommends that the ordinance with reference to holding cleo 1 ton to vote on sewer bond issue be 1 adopted.
 That the permission heretofore granted | by this board for a negro skating rink at Second avenue and Seventeenth street be l rescinded.
 That the ordinance to amend the annual l license schedule with reference to solicit ing for hotels at railroad stations go over.
 That the resolution with reference to the placing of officers as watchmen at railroad crossings go over. That the Mayor be instructed to ap- | point a committee of three to take up and further the matter of grade crossing leg islation.
 That the ordinance with reference to city bacteriologist be referred to the mar | ket committee.
 That attached resolution with reference to Greater Birmingham be adopted.
 That attached ordinance repeating sec l ton S6S of city code be adopted. That attached ordinance with reference l to regulating the sale of liquor be adopted. 1 That improvement ordinances 394 to 400, | inclusive, be adopted.
 Finance Committee. Present: Mayor, Jones' Hogan. klotz, l Cooper Absent: Heidt and Parker. l The committe recommends that the sum of $75 per month be appropriated as salary 1 to the humane officer and that said off I cer operate and be under the direct sup ervision of the chief of police, and that 1@- tN ta h tiG on tire time and attention to said work.
 That petition of Never Brake Range 1 company for a refund of license be granted.
 That petition of w. A. Collins for re- fund of license be granted That petition of R. B. Kelley for refund of license be granted.
 Street Committee.
 Present: Mayor, Stockmar Jones, Es l gleston, Copeland, (J.R,), Fulghum. Ab- sent: Moore
 The committee recommends the adoption l of the following resolution: Be it resolved by the Mayor and Al dermen of Birmingham. That the city l attorney be and is hereby instructed to enforce ordinance No. 22, adopted October | IS, 1905, which requires all telegraph com panies to place their wires under ground. | The time limit of said ordinance having expired.
 That the bill of Mrs. J. B. Donelson for $i. 20 for damages to water pipe by city l roller be ordered paid That the engineer be instructed to draw an ordinance for sidewalk paving on the north side of Avenue F from Tenth to l Twelfth streets.
 That the resolution with reference to | condemning certain "shacks'' on north l side of Avenue E, between Tenth and | Eleventh streets, be referred to the city attorney with instructions to enforce the law.
 That the city engineer be instructed to draw an ordinance for grading. curbing and sidewalk paving on Twelfth avenue l between Elevent hand Twelfth strets, north sidewalks to be laid only on north | side.
 That the enginer be instructed to draw an ordinance for macadamizing and curb | ing Eleventh avenue, north, from Four l teenth to Fifteenth streets | That permission heretofore granted Fair | childs Coal and Coke company for spur track into lots and 8, block 16S, be and | is hereby revoked. That the petition to have Eleventh l street opened from Twelfth to Thirteenth | avenues, south, be referre dto the Mayor, | city attorney and city engineer and the l two aldermen from the Ninth ward. | That contamination of W. B. Leedy & l Go. with reference to location of crema- | tory be referred to the sanitation and police committee. That the matter of building sewer in i block between Ninth and Tenth avenues, south, and Fourteenth and Fifteenth 1 streets, be referred to the Mayor and Aldermen Estes to secure rght-ofway 1 over certain property which is to benefit said property.
 That the contract for work under i'm provement ordinance No S92 be awarded | to John McPoland & Co. for the sum of s353S, they being the lowest bidders. | That the contract for work under inn Q1n nAlrlAAl ATnN nAl