The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23
BRYAN WILL INVADE NEW YORK
 IN DETERMINED EFFORT TO WIN
hrgrafifude Of Strikers
 For Liberal Concessions
Moving Day at Sayre Mines Without Exciting Incident Miners Wages and Professional Incomes Com pared-Preparing for Incoming
 of New Men.
BY FRANK V. EVANS.

miners union enticed these miners to a point across the river and there organized them and caused them to abandon their work and partake of the free rations from the American mine workers. On Monday morning, July 6, apprehending nothing out of place or unusual, the mine superintedent blew the whistle signaling the men to work. only few came. Investigation fol- lowed and one negro miner informed the superintendent that the men had Joined the union and gone out on strike. Asked if there were any company must recognize the union. That was all.
 Comparative Wages.
 In the matter of compensation to miners, it is well to bear in mind that the trade calls for no educational qual- ifcation whatever-only activity and muscle; that there is no system of ap- premiership and that many miners be- come such within a few months after entering the mines by force or other wise. Now, taking the above figures showing wages earned by them, it IS plainly shown that the miners, white and black, of the Birmingham district make more clear money than the school teachers of the state, or than the aver age professional man, for whose quail fications 1t requires the expenditure of years of time and thousands of dollars. And yet the complaint has been made by some striking miners that their compensation Is too low.
 Making Improvements.
 The visitor to Sayre today is deeply impressed with the fact that this com pany does not propose to cease making improvements and additions and that 1t contemplates the bringing in of 500 miners and their families to take the ploces of the departed ones within a short time. There are today 90 or SC dwelling houses in course of erection here-excellent ones, too. There are additional office buildings and com modious new school house nearly com pleted. The company is getting ready for business-big business, and Superin- tendent Neill assures me that the men are coming to fill them.
 Of course these men must be pro- tected when they do come and the state should do it. Soldiers will be needed at this point. Such sh ooting as hap pened at Arcadia is possible here, and at all the mines, because the timbers and underbrush are not cut off lhe many little hills and knolIs around and close to the mouths of tn ese different mines. Then I say it Is the duty of tn e state to guard and protect these prem ises from the deadly aim of the am pushed assassins and the midnight providers MT. Adams has never had soldiers at this place, though even he, himself, has been attacked by dynamite wielded by the. hand of a prowling would-be assassin. His property de- serves the protection of the state.
 Pass Words.
 The miner, MT Linn to whom I referred above is an ex-union miner, but tells me had quite enough of it's hossism years ago, and he has done with it. He relates that when he and his boys were members they paid $S per week dues, and that the pass word of the order was Watch Us Crow" that the officers of the union were grow ing in wealth afforded by the sweat of his brow. He says now that the password is Stand for Justice,' and that the only justice alluded to or visible Is the justice which swells the purses of the leaders of this strife.
 Intimidation.
 A report comes from the vicinity of Elm pire to the effect that one of the import ed agitators has been intimidatng igaor- ant black miners by stating to them tlNlt any miner who has accepted free rations from the union and returns to the non union mines will be arrested, convicted and sent to the penitentiary for one year for every dollars worth of ratons thus received, and it is just such rot as this handed out to the ignorant that is caus- ing them to continue in this state of idle ness. This Is intimidation of the worst kind and ought to be suppressed.
 Sad Picture.
 This moving into tents today of delicate women and children through drizzling rain, mud and slush is only part of the suffering brought about by this unholy warfare waged by the leaders of this strike. It is driving into exposure the in- nocent ones that the coffers of the leaders may be filled. It may cost the lives Of many. But what care these few leaders, poor and the innocent?
 And who are the sufferers in this season of strife? Who the beneficiaries?
 Who is it that deserves the condemna- ton and the frowns of the public and the punishment of an offended state? It is those who have by their incendiary utter ances, their agitations, their false prom ises and their daring affrontery fired up the minds of the weak and made crim,- nals of the ignorant.
 How long Is Alabama to allow this per- turbed condition to continue?