Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-06-21
TO END THE STRIKE.
OPERATORS AND MINERS COME
TO TERMS.
Columbus Conference Productive OF . Sat-
isfactory Settlement = Miners Get In
creased wsgcs-New Scale TO Continue I'm
Operation Until May, 1895.



The miners and operators confer
ence at Columbus, Ohio, has resulted
In compromise agreement, and the
end OF the great coal strike Is near.
Under the agreement work will be re-
sumed within 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 8 o'clock In
the morning. Each side expressed q
feeling that circumstances had placed
an agreement in jeopardy, but each
would try to effect an agreement IL
possible. Before going into executive
session as joint committee the miners
held private confer ence of about an
hours duration. Some OF the opera
tors had said that they preferred to
deal with organized rather than unor-
ganized labor, as more uniform results
can be secured. A failure to agree
meant, in their opinion, a resumption
of the strike at some time in the near
future.
Col. w. p. Rend, who was anxious to
effect settlement, submitted propo-
sitiOn on his own accC unit to agree to q
scale Of so cents for Pennsylvania and
60 cents for Ohio, other territory in q
fair proportion, the price to hold good
until Sept. i, when the rate Is to be in
crea ed TO 70 cents in Western Penn
sylvania and in other districts in pco-
portion. The proposition was made to
President Mcbride, and several of the
operators said they would agree to
Col. Rend's plan. About $50 in the
evening the Gale committee announced
that an agreement had been reached
and was bcing drawn up. The COM
promise was on basis OF go cents for
Ohio and 80 cents for Western Penn
sylvania. AT a joint confer nee the
agreement was ratified. A. A. Adams,
President of the Ohio miners, who
was a member of the scale committee,
refused to sign the agreement. The
settlement, however, is final. The
scale agreed upon is as follows:
Pittsburg, thin vein, SO cents: thick
vein, Sc cents.
Hooking Valley, 60 cents.
Indiana bituminous, 10 cents; Indiana
block, 20 cents.
Streator. H., 81. cents for summer
ana ~ Genus lOr winter.
Bloomington. ILL.,, III cents for sum-
mer and IS cents for winter.
La Sale and Spring Valley, ILL.,, 72s
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 min
ing prices as that paid by the Pennsyl-
vania Gas and We ,tmoreland Coal
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 and OBJ
served. The operators and miners
shall cooperate in their efforts to Sc
cure an OBJ ervance OF said price, 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 loint board of arbitra-
tion and determine whether the agree
ment has been sufficiently complied
with to warrant its continuance.
While IL has been announced that
the agreement reached by the opera
tors and miners in their Joint confer
ence Is final, its effect upon the miners
remains to be seen. The operators are
confident that the agreement will
bring about speedy settlement of the
strike. E. T. Bent of La Sale, ILL.,,
was of the opinion that the settlement
In Northern Illinois would influence
the southern part Of that State to come
| into line.