The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-06-15
TO END THE STRIKE.
OPERATORS AND MINERS COME
TO TERMS.
Columbus Conference Productive of a Sat-
isfactory Settlement = Miners Get In
creased wages-New Scale to Continue In
Operation Until May, 1895.
settlement IL Final.

The miners aud operators confer
ence at Columbus, Ohio, has re .ultsd
in compromise agreement, and the
end OF the great coal strike Is near.
Under the agre ,ment 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 o'clock in
the morning. Each side expressed a
feeling that circu instances had placed
an agreement in jeopardy, but each
would try to effect an agreement IL
possible. Before going into executive
session as joint commit e the miners
held private COME ence of about an
hours duration. Some OF the opera.
tors had said that they preferred to
deal with organized rather than unor-
gained labor, a, more uniform results
can be secured. A failure to agree
meant, in their opinion, a resumption
of the strike at some tine in the near
future.
Col. w. Z. Rend, who wa anxious to
effect settlement, submitted a propo-
sition on his own accG unit to agree to a
sca'e OF SO cents for Pennsylvania and
GO cents for Ohio, other territory in a
fair propol ton, the price to hold good
until Sept. /, when the rate is to be- in
crea ed to 10 cents in Western Penn
sylvania and in other districts in p.o-
portion. The proposition was made to
President Nc Bride, and several of the
operators said they would agree to
Col. Rends plan. About $50 in the
evening the Gale committee announced
thst an agreement had been reached
and was bcing drawn up. The COM
promise VS. en- basis of 60 cents for
I hio and 90 cent, for We stern Penn
sylvania. At joint confer nee the
agreement was ratified. A. A. Adams,
Pre- sid mt OF I - Oiio miners, who
was a member of the scale committee,
refused t) sign the agreement. The
settlement, however, Is fina'. The
scale agreed u on i as follows:
Pittsburg, thin vein, 90 cents; thick
vein, IS cents.
Hooking Valley, co cents.
Indiana bituminous, 90 cents; Indiana
block, 20 cents.
Streator, Ill.,, 62t cents for summer
and 10 cents for winter.
Bloomington H., ~ cents for sum-
mer and e5 cents for winter
l a Sale and Spring Valley, H., 72t
cents for summer ard 80 cents for
winter.
Other sections in Northern Illinois
fields at Prices relative to the abcve.
Coal in Pittsburg district, going east
to tide water, shall pay the same m n
ing prices as that paid by IL Pennsyl-
vania Gas and We tmoreland Cal
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 rec )gniZed and OBJ
served. The operators and miners
shall cooperate in their efforts TO Sc
cui Q an OBJ ervance OF said rice, 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
meeting Of the ONT board of arbitra-
tion and determine whether the agree
II eat has been sufficiently complied
with to warrant its continuance.
While it has been announced that
the agreement reached by the orera-
tors and miners in their Joint confer
ence is final, its effect upon the miners
rema ms to be seen. The operators are
confident that the agreement will
bring about speedy settlement of the
strike. f. Il. Pent of ! a Sale, ILL.,,
was of the opinion that the settlement
in Northern Illinois would influence
the southern part of that State to come
into line.