The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-29
Dissatisfaction Expressed by Number of Individual
 Miners Yesterday
BOTH SIDES YIELD
 TO AID WILSON IN
 SOLVING PROBLEM
Leaders Among Operators and Miners Yesterday Firm in Belief That Peace Would Now Reign in
 Mining Districts

Dfsappofntme on the part of fndf- vfduaI miners in various sections of
 the Birmingham district which marked
 the first appearance of the agreement
 tentatively reached between operators and operatives had by dusk last night practically disappeared.
 | Predictions are general that in a con vention of miners to be held at the Orpheum theatre, Birmingham, Wednes- l day of next week, the proposal of Will ! liam B. Wilson, Secretary of Labor in the cabinet of President Wilson, will be
 ratified. The proposal will be indorsed
 by the Alabama Coal Operators associa-
 tion, September 4.
 1 Yesterday morning there were sporadic outbursts of disappointment expressed l by miners who had previously gathered
 in Birmingham.
 1 meeting of indignation was held at
 Capitol park. Those who called the
 meeting, however, following addresses by J. R. Kennamer and other leaders of 1 the unionized miners, which served as ! oil on troubled waters, were apparently
 pacified. Last night The Age-Herald was notified by a telegram from l.. A.
 Rrakefield, secretary-tr local 3H1, 1 that miners had declared strike at the 1 Calumet mines in Walker county. Other
 wise the situation was regarded as nor
 nal, with indications pointing to a
 prompt and hearty resumption of work l elsewhere in the coal district
 ALL NOT SATISFIED | MT kennamer, president of District No 20, United Mine Workers of America
 when interviewed at union headquarters,
 admitted that the miners of the district were not satisfied with the agreement ! reached. but that he had hopes that 1 when the terms were fully explained in
 the convention to be held next week. i that which had been done would be rat l flied.
 We did not secure all that we de- | sired said MT. Kennamer. However we made progress, in my opinion We 1 obtained the concession from the opera
 tors which means that nothing will be
 done to prevent men joining the union
 and that man, once a member, would
 not be disqriminated against. We also l secured the right to appear periodically | before employers with grievances with | the guarantee that such grievances
 would be given careful consideration
 GAME OF GIVE AND TAKE 1 George B. Mccormack, president of the
 operators association, stated that the
 operators would in all probability indorse the proposed terms of the secretary,
 but that the proposed terms, had the l operators written them would in several 1 features have been essentially different i It was game of give and take" said MT. Mccormack. ''The result may be stated in the exact terms of the l Mr J,ie with us, declared I do not hope to reach an agreement which will satisfy the contending factions. I do hope, how er, that an agreement will be reached j% Nh will be acceptable to both' | operators were delighted with tn >retary's fairness and his wis., donhS was very courteous and very union miner and an official of the min CTS organization. His sympathies, no doubt, are with the miners and yet can say that during the deliberations in Birmingham he did not for a moment permit his personal inclination to bias his Judgment. He was always the judge, looking with patriotic instinct to the welfare of the government and the in
 dustry, as it concerns both men and operators, in the Birmingham district"
 PEACE NOW EXPECTED
 A canvass of the situation last night
 seemed to sustain the judgment of op-
 orators and union officials that peace following the interruption, would per
 manently obtain.
 It was reported that all large mines and practically all small mines were operated yesterday with almost normal results. At some places miners who had held off pending developments returned to work with spirit It is indicated that following the miners convention Wedneday, everybody will resume his
 place in the mines, and that all-men and operators-will soon be heartily CO., operating in delivering an unprecedented production to the end that prosperity