Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-06-12
SETTLEMENT REACHED
By the Conference Between Miners
and Operators.
SIXTY AND SIXTY-NINE CENTS
To be Paid in Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania Respectively-The Agree
ment Goes Into Effect Monday,
June 16, Allowing a Week for
the Miners to Ratify It.


June 16, Allowing Week for
the Miners to Ratify It.
COLUMBUS, o., June 1L.-Whlle 1t has
been announced that the agreement
reached by the operators and miners In
their joint conference in this city to-
night is final, its effect upon the
miners remains to be seen.
The fact that fully a week
will intervene before the agreement
takes effect leads to the belief that the
determination of the miners to accept
no compromise can be modified. A
majority of the operators left for
their homes immediately after the
adjournment of the conference
TO night, and, those who
could be seen were confident that the
agreement would bring about speedy
settlement of the strike. Robert Bailey
of Pittsburg, said it was doubtful how
the fftv-three boiling operators in his
district would take to the agree
ment, p. but he was incIin-
ed to the belief that
majority Of them wonld fall into line.
E. T. Bent, of La Sale, Ills, was OF
the opinion that The settlement in lli-
nois would influence the southern
part Of that State to come into line.
COLUMBUS, O., June 1.-THE joint
committee on scale, composed OF opera
tors and miners, went into executive
session at a. m. Each side expressed
a feeling that circumstances else
where had placed an agreement
here in jeopardy, but each would try to
effect an agreement. John Mcbride
said: eve, the miners, are not con-
tending for recognition Of the miners
union but for uniform scale"
Col. w. P. Rend submitted PROPOSE
ton on his own account to agree to a
scale OF 90 cents for Pennsylvania and
60 cents for Ohio, other territory in a
fair proportion, the price to hold good
until September l, when the rate
is to be increased to 70
cents in western Pennsylvania
and in other districts in proportion.
The proposition was made to President
Mcbride and the probabilities are that
he will make a similar proposition to
the scale committee. Several of the
operators in a private way said they
would agree to COL Rend's plan.
About $50 this evening the Scale
Committee announced that an agree
ment had been reached and was being
drawn up. The compromise was on q
basis Of 60 cents for Ohio and 60 cents
for Western Pennsylvania. The agree
ment is not to take effect until next
Monday, June IS, the miners desiring
to have week to submit the
matter to the various districts, as much
opposition to the compromise is ex-
uected. and the miners will have to be
prepared to accept it. The agreement,
which has not yet been made public,
was submitted to the joint conference
at 5 p. N. for ratification.
AT THE JOINT CONFERENCE
tonight the agreement was ratified. A..
A. Adams, president of the Ohio miners,
who was a membe of the scale COM
mittee, refused TO sign the agreement.
The settlement, however, is final The
scale agreed upon is as follows:
Pittsburg, thin vein 90 cents, thick
vein SO cents; Hooking Valley 90 cen Is;
Indiana bitumiuous 60 cents; Indiana
block 20 cents; Streator, Illinois, 62 =
cents for summer aud 20 for winter;
Bloomington, Illinois, 771l for summer
aud So for winter; La Sale and Spring
Valley, Illinois, M for sum
mer and so for winter,
Other sections in Northern Illinois
fields at prices relative TO the above.
Coal in Pittsburg district going east to
tidewaters shall pay the. same mining
price as that paid By the Penn
sylyania Gas and Westmoreland
Coal Companies. The scale Of price:
will affect and bind both parties there
to. beginning June IS, 1894, and contin'
uiug until May l, 1898; provided thai
the above named scale OF prices Tor
THE PITTsBURG DISTRICT
shall be generally recognized and OBJ
served. The operators and miners shall
cooperate In their efforts to secure
general observance of said prices, and il,
during the period covered by'this agree
ment a general recognition OF the price;
herein named cannot be secured, either
party to this agreement may call a
meeting OF the joint board Of arbitra-
tion and determine whether the agree
ment has been sufficiently co implied
with 10 warrant its continuance.
TROOPS 10 BE CALLED HONE