The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-01
MASS MEETING ID ANALYZE STATE OF
 THE UNION MINERS
Civic Bodies Meet Tomorrow at Southern CIub-Van Bitt- ner Writes Denouncing
 Kilby's Decision

Call for the mass meeting to be held Monday afternoon in the South ern club to formulate plans for such relief of the unemployed as shall az pear to be demanded on entertainment of the real situation, has been issued by the various civic organizations.
 The Monday meeting was first called by Col T. o, Smith, chairman of the com mittee of the various organizations named to take charge of this matter. The ob- ject of the mass meeting iss twofold:
 To ascertain the real situation
 To form plans in accordance with the situation.
 The call for the meeting reads
 THE CALL ITO the Citizens of Birmingham
 Members of all civic bodies in Bir- mingham are invited and urged as a duty to the community and their fellow will be given at the Southern club at l O clock Monday, May 2, for the purpose of formulating some practicable plan to allay the distress and suffering which Is said to exisit in Birmingham today among our own people by reason of tho present unemployment.
 Birmingham has responded gener- ously when the calls have come to aid the suffering peoples overseas. Today the call comes from our own, people from men, women and children in all parts of this district who are reported to be in need. Birmingham must and will meet the situation at home with that same spontaneous and open-hearted gem erosity which are characteristic of her citizens.
 We, the undersigned, appeal to every member of the various civic bodies Of Birmingham and to the public in general to attend the luncheon for the purpose of devising ways and means to handle & situation which is declared to be serious and which demands prompt and con certed action on the part of our citizen ship.
 BIRMINGHAM CHAMBER OF COM
 MERGE,
 "M. P Northington, President; o. L. | Bum, Secretary.
 "KIWANIS CLUB,
 "W. J. Adams. President; c. N. Wiley | Secretary.
 | FRAGRANCE CLUB,
 Hugh A. Locke, President; Charles II
 Brown, Secretary Treasurer.
 "CIvITAN CLUB.
 "Jelks H. Cabaniss, President; John II i Mix, Secretary. | AUTOMOBILE CLUB, | Charles G. Davis, President; James F. 1 Dobbins, Secretary.
 REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE, Claude Estes, President; o. H. Horton Secretary"
 CONTRIBUTIONS
 Lewis Bowen, secretary Of the State l Federation of Labor, announces recelp' of a check for $49. a sum raised by the ,Albany-D Decatur Daily. George liar grove and w. l.. Harrison have given sl' each. Jones Valley Grocery company oi l Bessemer sent 100 sacks Of flour TOT lns distressed coal miners Women's committees of the Trades council and Federation of Labor secured donations on Morris avenue on 8 trit l to the wholesale houses there. City ol l Birmingham furnished a truck for haul 1 age.
 VAN BITTNER BITTER l Van Bittner former strike leader. has written a letter to Governor Kilby, SC verely critical of his stand with rerer' ence to the appeal for aid coming iron the miners. Copy of the letter was given out at union mine headquarters. 1 Bittner refers to the governors awaro as "an infamous decision. lie says .Tbese miners will forever hold you and VOL alone for your attempt at notnins | less than the starvation of 40,ooo men twomen and children, In order that tn' United Mine Workers of America migh' | be driven out of Alabama"
 Bittner claims that the union miner' have contracts with operators empioyihe 4.OO0 miners and more than 15o locals, ana ayers that the United Mine Worher' have not left Alabama