The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-31
WILL STRIKE BE CONTINUEDp Decision Will Bs Known
 Today. NOTHING IS MADE PUBLIC Decision of National Board Mailed
 to Miners. A Negro Non-Union Miner Was shot sy An Unknown Negro sunday Morning in Frenchtown. Near
 Pratt City.
NOTHING IS MADE PUBLIC

Birmingham, Aug. so.-(special.)- The decision of the national board of the United Mine Workers of America in the case of the Alabama coal strike will be mailed to all camps in the Bir- mingham district Monday morning.
 Tonight 1t Is in the hands of the printer. The document, which is signed by President Lewis. Vice Pres ident White and Secretary-Treasure Ryan. is about one thousand words long. It's contents are known by but three men. and not one suggestion as to its nature has been allowed to escape On the contention that the men most interested should be the first to know the news. they stand ab- selutely firm Although Knowledge that the report Is 10 be made Monday is not general. intense excitement pre- vails here. and if strike is not called of. serious trouble Is feared.
 Another outrage occurred in French town, near Pratt City, Sunday morn ing, when George Mozely, a negro non-union miner, was shot by an un- known negro, who escaped. Mozely was the father of Elem Mozely whose house was dynamited Saturday. the two houses adjoining.
 President Lewis Departs.
 Birmingham. Aug. 30.-President T. L. Lewis. of the United Mine Workers of America. left for Indianapolis to- night over the Queen and Crescent but before his departure a statement was drawn up bearing upon the miners strike in Alabama and left in the hands of Vice President White and Secretary Ryan who are stil1 here.
 It is believed that the miners will decide to give up the struggle It ia understood that Governor Conner gave the officials an ultiInatum Saturday night to the effect that unless the strike was called on by ten o'clock Monday morning he would call the legislature in extra session to deal with the situation.
 Day Of Rsxrffennenf.
 BlfInifikhara.. Aug. so.-fspectal ,--z With the practical certainty that the decision of the United Mine Workers in the Birmingham coal strike will be announced Monday. all Birmingham spent a day of excitement Sunday. Opinion as to what the report of the national officers would be was mat ter of conjecture. as the secrecy with which the officials surrounded their work was absolutely deadly. No ink ling as to the nature of the report could be obtained. The closest ques- tioHing was parried with a skin that showed long handling with such work q
 It can be stated on excellent author fly that the final touches to the de- cisiop were made Sunday afternoon, all members of the National Board present in Birmingham being at the meeting. It is known that the document was not ready at noon. and that 1t was ready at o'clock. At that hour it seemed certain that it would be mailed to all the camps, to arrive In all simultaneously Monday morning As one of the officials expressed 1t, 1t did not seem right to make public the contents of an order before the men for whom it was intended had seen it
 Without openly making the state ment, 1t was learned that the afternoon papers of Monday would be able to carry the decision. The fact, then. that the letters must go out to the camps in tonight's mail is plainly evil dent. It will probably by typewritten. as there has been no time for the printing of the document. and it is understood the paper will be a long one, reviewing conditions from every point of view.
 The entire National Board took lunch at the Florence. occupying two tables near the front of the hotel res taurant. The party was the center of all eyes. every move Of Lewis and Ryan and White being made the topic of conversation and conjecture as to meaning. It was while at lunch that reporters sought to gain informa ton. but without success. It was said that Lewis and White will return tonight to Indianapolis, and that Ryan, the 6ecretery- Treasurer of the national or ganfzation, win be left in Birmingham to do the official announcements in the ease. At any event, Mir. Ryan will be here Monday. and MT. Lewis's remark the other day that there would be nothing to give out until he was ready to return to Indianapolis. leads to the conclusion that he has no intention of remaining in town more than a few hours longer.
 Barren as Is the information on the subject, the impression is general that the order will cali the strike of. The Alabama Coal Operators Association held an all-days session yesterday while the mine officials were in con- ference with Governor Conner, and 1t is known there was not the slightest indication of yielding the point for the open shop. Mir. Lewis has held conference with not a single operator; in fact, no effort has been made to arrange such a meeting. It had been made plain to him that the operators would not recognize him in any ca pacity. In consequence, Governor Conner has acted as the peace maker, although it is believed he has not att tended the operators meetings and his conferences with the miners have been simply to explain condition, and espe- cially his attitude in the strike
 The Body Blow.
 The Governors orders to the soldiers to tear down tent camps, for instance. are recognized as a body blow to the attempts of the miners to continue the strike. This point Is known to have been argued long and seriously. ending in an auto trip in the Governors ma chine to the places where the tents had been cut down. The report that the Governor yielded in the matter 'so long as the tents are half mile or more from the company's plants" Is said to be wholly without foundation. If the strikers cannot live in the company's houses. and are not permitted to build themselves shelter. 1t is obvious that the strike cannot continue.
 Discussions as to what would happen iG the strike was not called off was cen tered on the proposition of an extra ordinary session of the Legislature to