The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-06-21
Settle Is Final.

The miners and operators confer.
once at Columbus, Ohio, has re suited
in a compromise agreement, and the
end of the great coal strike is near.
Under the agre ,ment work will be re.
sumed within a week, the miners de-
string to have the remainder of the
week to submit the agreement to the
various districts.
The joint committee on scale, COM
posed of operators and miners, went
into executive session at 8 o'clock in
the morning. Each side expressed q
feeling that circumstances had placed
an agreement in jeopardy, but each
would try to effect an agreement if
possible. Before going into executive
session as a joint commit e the miners
held a private COME ence of about an
hours duration. Some of the opera.
tors had said that they preferred to
deal with organized rather than unor-
ranized labor. a, more uniform results
can be secured. A failure to agree
meant, in their opinion, a resumption
of the strike at some time in the near
future.
Col. w. p. Rend, who was anxious to
effect a settlement, submitted a propo-
sition on his own account to agree to q
scale of SO cents for Pennsylvania and
50 cents for Ohio, other territory in a
fair proportion, the price to hold good
until Sept. /, when the rate is to be in
creased 20 70 cents in Western Penn
s~ylvania and in other districts in pro-
portion. The proposition was made to
President Mcbride, and several of the
operators said they would agree to
Col. Rend's plan. About $50 in the
evening the Gale committee announced
that an agreement had been reached
and was boing drawn up. The COM
promise was on a basis of 60 cents for
ohio and 80 cents for Western Penn
~sylvania. At a joint confer nee the
agreement va ratified. A. "A. Adams,
President Of the Ohio miners, who
was Il member of the scale committee,
refused to sign the agreement. The
.ett!ement, however, is final. The
scale agreed upon is "a follows:
Pittsburg, thin vein, 50 cents; thick
~ein, IS cents.
Hooking Valley, SO cents.
Indiana bi%tuminous, 80 cents; Indiana
block, % cents.
Streator, Ill.,, 62t cents for summer
and 20 cents for winter.
Bloomington. Ill.,, ~ cents for sum-
mer and - cents for winter.
Ia Sale and Spring Valley, ILL.,, 72l
cents for summer and 81 cents for
winter.
Other sections in Northern Illinois
fields at prices relative to the abCve.
I AuI in I1ftChy,n lt,ktot ,<s-. oo-x
10 tide water, shall pay the same NM
ing prices as that paid by the Pennsyl-
vania Gas and We ,tmoreland Coal
companies. The scale of price,
Will continue until May l. 1895, pro-
vided the a~bOve-named scale of
prices for the Pittsburg district
snail be generally recognized and OBJ
seryed. The operators and miners
shall cooperate in their efforts TO Sc
cu'e an ob a OF said price, and if
during the period covered by the
agreement recognition OF the price
herein named cannot be secured either
party to this agreement may call a
meeting of the ONT board of arbitra.
tlon and determine whether the agree
Ment has been sufficiently complied
WIN 10 warrant its continuance.
While it has been announced that
me agreement reached by the opera
tors and miners in their Joint confer
ehce is final, its effect upon the miners
rema MS to be seem. The operators are
confident that the agreement will
orlng about a speedy settlement of the
,'rlke. Z. T. Pent of la Sale, Ill.,,
was OF the opinion that the settlement
n Northern Illinois would influence
.he southern part of that State to come