The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-06-21

The miners az1 operators confer
ence at Columbus, Ohio, has resulted
In compromise agreement, and the
end of the great coal strike is near.
Under the agre .ment work will be re-
sumcd within a week, the miners de-
string to have the remainder OF the
week to submit the agre emept to tie
various districts.
The joint committee on scale, COM
posed Of operators and miners, went
into executive session At o'clock IL
t1e morning. Each side expressed q
feeling that circu instances had placed
an a.reem mt in jeopardy, but each
wou d try t. effect An agreement X
possible. Before going into executive
session as joint commit e the miners
held private COME ence Of about an
hours duration. Some OF the opera
tors had said that they preferre to
deal with organized rather than unOr-
1aniZed labor. a. more uniform results
| can be secured A failure to agree
meant, in their opinion. q resumption
of the strike at some tine in the near
future.
Col. w. p. Rend, who wa, anxious to
effect settlement, submitted q propO-
/ sitiOn on his own acc nut to agree to a
sca!e of 81 cents for Pennsylvania and
| 60 cents Tor Ohio, other territory in
fair propol ton, the price to hold good
until Sept. /. when the rate Is to be in
c.ea ell to 70 cents in Western lenn-
sylyania and in other districts in p:o-
portion. The prop sitiOn WAS made to
| President Mcbride, and several Of the
| operators said they would agree to
ri ND NInv a ont n a
evening the Gale committee announced
| that an agreement hal been reached
and was bcing drawn up. The COM
promise WIS en- a basis Of 60 cents for
| Chic and 81 cent, Tor We-tern Penn
| sylvania. At joitt confer nee the
agreement was ratified. A. A. Adams,
President OF the OHIO miners. who
was member of the scale committee.
refused to sign the agreement. The
settlement, however, is final. The
scale agreed u ION il as follows:
Pittsburg, thin vein. 50 cents: thick
vein, IS cents.
Hooking Valley, TO cents.
Indiana bituminous, TO cents; Indiana
block, 20 cents.
Streator, Ill.,, 624 cents for summer
and 70 cents for winter.
Bloomington ILL.,, -. cents for sum-
MGR anu CO CIuCj IOr winter.
La Sale and Spring Valley, ILL.,, 724
cents for summer and ~ cents for
winter
Other sections in Northern Illinois
fields at prices relative to the abb We.
Coal in fittsburg district, going cas-
to tide water, shall pay the same m n
ing prices rs that paid by tt 9 Pennsyl-
vania Gas and We tmoreland Gal
companies. The scale of price,
will continue until May /, 1895, pro-
vided the above-named scale OF
prices for the Pittsburg district
shall be generally rec " nized and OBJ
served. The operators and miners
shall cooperate in their efforts to So
Gu an OBJ ervance OF said lrice, and II
during the period covered by the
agreement recognition OF the price
herein named cannot be secured either
party to this agreement may call q
meeting Of the 1Oint board of arbitra-
ton and determine whether the agree
mont has been sufficiently complied
with to warrant its continuance.
While it has been announced that
the agreement reached by the OF era
tors and miners i'll their Joint confer
ence is final, its elect upon the minors
rema MS to be seen. The operators are
confident that the agreement will
bring about a speedy settlement of the
strike. f. I. Pent of q Sale, ILL.,,
was of the opinion that the settlement
in Northern Illinois would Influence
the southern part of that State to come
into line.