The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-06-12
THE COSFEnENCE.

Details of tbs Agreement Which Breaks
tho Strike aud May Settle It Finally.
COLUMBUS, O., Juno 1.-the joint
committee on scale composed OF opera
tors and miners went into executive
Hession ut 8 o'clock a.. IN. Each side eS
pressed o feeling that circumstances
elsewhere had placed an agreement
here in jeopardy, but each would try to
effect an agreement. John Mcbride
eaid the miners were not contGndlng
for recognition of the miners union, but
for uniform scale.
Before going into executive session as
a joint committee, the miners held q
private conference Of abou. ono hours
duration. Some OF the operators said
that they preferred to deal with organ
lied rather than unorGani2cd labor as
moro uniform results could be secured.
Col. W. P. Rend, who was very anS-
ious to effect u settlement, snbmitted q
proposition on his own account to agree
to scale OF 60 cents for Pennsylvania
uud W CCulb OHAoi
in fair proportion, the price to hold
good until September l, when tho ratio
is 10 be increased to 10 cents in Western
Pennsylvania and in other districse
in proportion. Several OF tho opera
tors in private way said they would
agree to Colonel Rends plan.
THE AGREEMENT.
Abou! $50 this evening the scale
committee announced that an agree
naent had been reached and was being
drawn UP. Tho compromise was on q
basis OF 60 cents for Ohio and G0 cents
for Western Pennsylvania. Tho agree.
mont Is not to ,ako effect until next
Monday, juno IS, the miners desiring
TO have q week to submit the matter TO
the various districts, as much opposi..
tion to the compromise is expected, anu
the miners will have to be prepared TO
accept it.
At tho Joint conference tonight the
agreement was ratified. A. a. Adams,
president OF the Ohio miners, who was
member OF the scale committee, re-
fused 10 sign the agreomcnt. Tho sot-
tlement, however, is final. The scale
agreed upon is us follows:
TIE SCALE
Pittsburgh, thin voin 80 cents; thick
vein, So cents. Hooking Valley, GO
cents. Indiana bituminous, so cents;
Indiana block, 70 cents. S.reator, Ill.,
nois, 62i cents for summer and 70 for
winter; Bloomington, Illinois, ~ cents
for summer and S. for winter; La Sale
and Spring Valley, Illinois, 723 cents
for summer and so for winter. Osher
sections in northern Illinois fields nt
prices relative 10 the above.
Coal in Pittsburgh district going east
to tidewaters shall pay tho same mining
price as that paid by tho Pennsylvania
Gas and Wcstmoreand Conl companies.
Tho scalo OF prices will effect and bind
both parties thereto beginning juno IL,
1894, and continuing until May l, 1885
provided that tho above named scale OF
prices for tho Pittsburgh dis.
trio. shall be generally recognized!
and observed. The operators and
miners shall cooperate in their efforts
TO secure general observance OF said
prices, and II during tho period covered
BY this agreement general recognition
OF tho prices herein named cannot be
secured either party to this agreement
nav call Il meeting OF tho Joint board OF
arbitration and determine whether the
agreement has been sufficiently COM
piled with to warrant its continuance.