Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-06-22
TO END THE STRIKE.
OPERATORS AND MINERS COME
TO TERMS.
Columbus Conference Productive Of Sat.
~isfactory Settlement Miners Get In
creased wsgss-New Scale to Continu. In
Operation Until May. 500.
Settlement lie Final.

80 eu9
The miners and operators confer.
ence at Columbus, Ohio, has resulted
in q compromise agreement, and the
end of the great coal strike is near.
Under the agre sment 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 - O'Clock in
the morning. Each side expressed a
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 ee the miners
held a private conference of about an
hours duration. Some OF the opera.
tors had said that they preferred tc
deal with organized rather than
gained labor. as nor uniform results
a be secured. A failure to agree
meant, in their opinion, u resumption
of the strike at some time in the near
future.
Col. w. P. Rend, who wa, anxious to
effect a settlement. submitted q propo-
sition on his W ace. int to agree to q
scale OF go cents for Pennsylvania and
60 cents for Ohio, other territory in a
fair proportion, the price to hold good
until Sept. 1, when the rate is to be in
crea ed to ~ cents in Western Penn
sylvania and in other districts in p.o-
portion. The proposition was made to
President Mcbride, and several of the
operators said they would agree ts
Col. Rend's plan. About 500 in the
evening the Gale committee announced
that an agreement had been reached
and was bcing drawn up. The COM
promise was On a basis of GO cents for
Chic and 50 cent, for Western Penn
sylvania. AT a joint confer nee the
agreement vas ratified. A. A. Adams,
President OF the Ohio miners, who
was u member of the scale committee,
refused to sign the agreement. The
settlement, however, is final. The
scale agreed uson is as follows:
Pittsburg, thin vein, 90 cents: thick
vein, 56 cents.
Hooking Valley, GO cents.
Indiana bituminous, 10 cents; Indiana
block, 30 cents.
Streator, ILL.,, 62A cents for summer
and ~ cents for winter.
Bloomington, ILL.,, ia cents for sum
mer and IS cents for winter.
La Sale and Spring Valley, ILL.,, '2i
cents for summer and 81 cents for
winter.
Other sections in Northern Illinois
fields at prices relative to the above.
Coal in Pittsburg district, going east
to tide water, shall pay the same MN
ing prices as that paid by tie 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 recognized AMI OBJ
served. The operators and miners
shall cooperate in their e!o,ts 10 Sc
cure an OBJ ervance 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 oint board Of arbitra-
tion and determine whether the agrees
nent has been sufficiently complied
with to warrant its continuance.
While 1t has been announced that
the agreement reached by the orera-
tors and miners in their Joint confer
enc is final, its effect upon the miners
rema, MS to be 20 The operators are
confident that the agreement will
bring about Q speedy settlement of the
strike. r. I. Rent of La Sale, ILL.,,
was OF the opinion that the settlement
in Northern Illinois would influence
tho southern part Of that State to come
into linz.