Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-06-16
FIXED THE SCALE.
Goal Operators and Miners Elf-
fect Compromise.
Hopeful Result of the Columbus Confer
ence-hincrs to Receive Increased
wages-woris to BE Resumed
on Monday Next.
SOME OPPOSITION NET WITH.

COLUMBUS, o., June 12.-At $50
o'clock Monday evening the scale COM
mittee of the miners and operators,
which has been deliberating for two
full days on scale of prices, reached
All agreement The compromise was
upon a basis of SO cents for Ohio and
go cents for western Pennsylvania.
The agreement is not to take effect
until next Monday, the miners stating
that they would have to have some
time in which to preuare their constit-
uents for the acceptance of the COM
promise.
The joint committee on scale, COM
posed of operators and miners, went
into executive session at Q o'clock in
the morning. Each side expressed a
feeling that circumstances elsewhere
had placed an agreement here in
jeopardy, but each would try to
effect an agreement if possible. Be-
fore going into executive session as
joint committee the miners held pri-
vate conference of about an hours du-
ration. Some of the operators had
said that they preferred to deal with
| organized rather than unorganized la
| Dor, as more uniform results can be-
secured. A failure to agree meant, in
| their opinion, resumption of the
| strike at some time in the near future.
Col. w. j. Rend, who was anxious to
effect settlement, submitted propo-
| sition on his own account to agree to a
scale of 80 cents for Pennsylvania and
| go cents for Ohio, other territory in
fair proportion, the price to hold good
until September 1, when the rate is to
| be increased to 70 cents in western
| Pennsylvania and in other districts in
| proportion. The proposition was made
to President Mcbride, and several of
the operators said they would agree to
Col. Rend's plan.
At o'clock the miners held another
conference. President Cairns, of the
Pittsburgh district, who is a member
of the joint scale committee, called his
executive board, consisting of Secreta-
ry William Warner, j. L. Larkin, Will
liam Dodds and John Callahan, to this
city to consult with the miners
committee with reference to a settle
ment The committee was unani-
mously opposed to any compromise
measure. One of the members went so
far as to say that his people had told
him not to return home if the commit
tee agreed to accept anything less than
70 cents for that district. Mr. w. Fl.
Crawford, of the Ohio executive board,
was also in the city and took the same
stand as the Pittsburgh people. DR..
Hoy, representing the Wellston miners
of Ohio, stated that the miners of jack
son and Hooking counties were op-
posed to accepting any price less than
20 cents in this state.
About $3.50 p. m. the scale COMMITTEES
announced that an agreement had
been reached and was being drawn up
The compromise was on basis of 90
cents for Ohio and so cents for western
Pennsylvania. The agreement is not
to take effect until next Monday June
IS, the miners desiring to have a week
to submit the matter to the various
districts, as much opposition to the
compromise is expected, and the
miners will have to be prepared to ac-
cept it,
At joint conference at night the
agreement was ratified. A. A. Adams,
president of the Ohio miners, who was
a member of the scale committee, re-
fused to sign the agreement. The set
tlement. however, is final. The scale
agreed upon is as follows:
pittsburgh, thin vein, 90 cents; thick vein.
81 cents
Hooking Valley 60 cents.
Indiana bituminous, 6Ocents; Indiana block,
70 cents.
"Streator, Ill, 6ah cents for summer and 20
for winter.
Bloomington, ILL.,, 77h cents for summer
and SO for winter.
| Tn Sal le nj ta
| for summer and so cents for winter.
| "Other sections in northern Illinois fields at
prices relative to the above. Coal in Pitts
| burgh district going east to the tide-water
| shall pay the same mining price as that paid
by the Pennsylvania Gas a,nd Westmoreland
| Coal companies. The scale of prices will be
| in effect and bind both parties thereto, be-
ginning June IL, 1894, and continue until May
| l, 1895; provided that the above-named
scale of prices for the Pittsburgh districts
: shall be generally recognized and observed.
The operators and miners shall cooperate in
their efforts to secure observance 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 joint
board of arbitration and determine whether the
agreement has been satisfactorily enough COM
piled with to warrant its continuance
While it has been announced that
the agreement is final, its effect upon
the miners remains to be seen. The
fact that fully week will intervene
before the agreement takes effect
leads to the belief that the determine
ton of the miners to accept no com
promise can be changed. A majority
, of the operators left for their homes
Immediately after the adjournment
of the conferences, and those
who could be seen were conf
dent that an agreement would bring
, about a speedy settlement of the
strike. Robert Bailey, of Pittsburgh,
said it was doubtful how the fifty
three boiling operators in his district
! would take the agreement, but he was
inclined to the belief that majority
of them would fali into line.
ExlLED AN AMERICAN.