Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-12
AGREEMENT on TERMS.
Mine Operators and Miners Adopt n
Scale of Wages.

The report of the scale committee was
adopted unanimously by the conference of
the miners and operators at Columbus, o.,
last night, and The conference adjourned
sine Gle. The following is the agreement
resolution:
Resolved, That we agree that the rates
for mining 1000 pounds lump coal shall
be as follows: Pittsburg. thin vein. sixty
nine cents; thick vein, ffty-six cents: Heck
irg, sixty cents; Indiana, bitu!ninoi:s, sixty
cents; Indiana, block. seventy cents:
Streator. ILL.,, summer, sixty-two and half
cents; StreaIor, winter, seventy cents; Will
ming on, summer, seventy seven and i half
cents; Wilmington, winter. eiSnty-ilve
cents; La Sale, Ill, and spring Valley.
SUNNI er, seventy-tWo and q ha!f cents;
La Sale and Spring Valley. winter. eighty
cents OSher sections in northern Illinois
field at prices relative to the above.
Coal in Pittsburs district soing east to
tdewater shall Fay the same mining prices
cs that paid BY the fengas and WeStmore-
land Coal Company.
This scale OF prices shall be in effect
and bind both parties thereto, beginning;
June Is. 1894. and continue until the first
day Of MAJ, 1885,
A long list of subsidiary details and pro-
visions is appended to cover all points that
might arise Il the way of misunderstand-
Ing or dL-pute. and TO provide for the
methods OF procedure in case OF violation
of the agreement by any parties to it.
kilograms received from the chief mining
centers of Ohio show that the miners are
extremely indignant over the compromise
settlement OF the strike, and there may be
an organized movement, led by President
a. a. Adams, in resistance TO The order 10
80 to work.
The settlement of the miners strike on 4
siAty-Iiinc-Cent-a-tc1 basis for inc Pitts
burg district was received at PittsburS with
more satisfaction by the operators than by
the miners 1t is thought the sixty mine
80. h..
operators of The district. w. L. De ArTnitt.
president of the New York ana Cleveland
Gas Coal Company. will not accept the new
rate lie has Il contract with mis- miners
which docs not expire until December /.
The contract is for fifty-nye cents ton.
He says he made it in good faith. and ex-
poets the miners to perform their part Of
the agreement
~ miners Official said the miners will not
Ike the terms Of the settlement, but all
will probably go to work.
History of TIC Strike.
The strike began Saturday, April 81.
1t was ordered by the United Nine ~ orr
ers of America, OF which John Mcbride is
president The strike extended at once
over the soft coal regions OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Ohio. Indiana, Illinois, Colorado. Indian
Territory. Missouri. Kansas, Iowa, Ala
baTua, Kentucky and Tennessee. Later a
portion of the miners OF Maryland and
West Virginia joined the strike. Mr.. Nc
Bride estimated the number of strikers at
10000. These miners received SJS,S.96gT
in wages in 1897 according to the eleventh
census of the United States. In that year
139,sS6 mines produced IJ.So. los tons OF
coal. valued at S'fg.3JO, SD Last yea.. these
mines produced over 1OOOCO.0OO tons.
The strike was for the restoration of the
Interstate wage agreement, which was
abandoned during the summer, first volun-
tariiy by a small number of miners III The
Pittsbury district, and thus forcing reduc-
ton in every competitive district in the
mi fn1 rzra fNTN..
had cut down wages, each company cX-
planning to its men that IL could no;
keep up the rates and compete with neigh
boring mining districts. This cutting OF
wages led u the breaking of the agTeernen,
signed by the union and the operators in
1873 The cutting is said to have begun
when the New York and Cleveland Gas
Coal Company paid its men in scrip dUTin;
the financial atrinSency. The operators in
other districts claimed this TO be discrimi-
nation. and the cuts followed
Within the last two weeks the military
has been called out in seven states-Mary-
land West Virginia. Illinois. Indiana, Ohio.