Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-09-04
STRIKE ENDS NEXT WEEK.
EiDerS Will Work iOF 60 Gents 10
The End OF The Year.
Con vcntiOn 10 DO Held In December
10 Determine the Bnts for
Mining Iberrafier.

COLUMBUS. o., Sept. s.-The end OF
the great miners' strike is in sight.
This afternoon the Nationsl executive
bosId Of the United Mino-W Orkers
agreed to recomme Al to the miners D
proposition irom the Pitlsour, opera
tors for n straight price OF 65 cents a
ton, TO coDtiuus in force until the emu
OF me year, with the aunt nal mu-
tusi understanding that u jIint me. =
Ing OF operators ana miaeIs shall be
hold In December. 1897, ror tue pur.
pose OF determining what the rate oil
mining shall be thereafter.
A delegate convention Of all m ners
VINO have suspended work has been
called to meet 10 Columbus, o., Sept.
ut 10 am. to &C. upon the recon-
incubation.
Pfesiuent Ratohford and the other
members OF tue board say there Is not
| the slightest doubt but that the minere
will approve the arrang. The
| proposition does not volve arbitra-
| ton, and IL provides for au immediate
settlement OF the strike.
President Ratcbford said tonight
! that there were special Iessons for the
| hoard recommending the proposition.
In the ftst place, IL concsues the
miners material advance. Had u
| B9-cent rate been secured, he was con.
ndeDt II could NOT have been main.
tsinsu for more than seventy days
The proposition does away with all the
uncertainties OF arbitration pnd will
bring the strike to q speedy Terminus,
lion. As soon as the miners rally the
proposition, work viii be resumed In
all The mines.
In the second place, the proposition
provides fLr o revival OF the Joint con.
iereuce for tue adjustment OF prices.
The Opetatjre are pledged TO meet the
tniuefs' prices, to the Termination OF
the agreement, and Sto determine the
rate OF mining Tor next year.
This morning the operators com.
mittee renewed iis o ret proposition fol
"a cent rate pendiDg arbitration.
This was again risoted by the miners
board, SUI jeot 10 the approval Of the
miners at large.
Tonight tine National executive
board OF the United nt-W0rk.rs o.
America Issued a circular TO all mem
bere Of the unioD, In which they re.
port the results OF the conference,
with the operators, anu formally osl
the delegate convept,0n to be- held Ia
Columbus next Wednesday. Tn.
circular strongly recommends that tbt
proposition OF the operators be accept,
I'd, and II states that, In the Judgment
Of thu members OF the .xeeutlv,
board, 1t IL the best that can be SO
cured, "because OF ciTcu instances thai
are apparent to oil who stu1y marke
conditions since the Inauguration o.
he strike"
WHY ooMPERs KEPT OUT.
| WAsHINGToN, Sept. 3.-Mr. Samue
Gompers, presiaent Of the American
Federation OF labor. when asked TO-DAY
WY he anu other trade ut Jnists din
not attend the convention held In St
Louis on last Monday anu Tuesday
enid:
~ have been placed in most pecu
liar position. The call for the CO..
ventiOn contained my name ~ FIJI
cinlly endorsing II. This was cleAI,s
a mistake In the first Instances. 1t wal
plscei there by MIR. Ratchford undei
tho impresslon thar knowing my In
tense sympathy with the miners IL
their Just struggle, l would go to any
ienRtns Ia order to help them TO cue
coed, but my name was placed there
aud the tflcial endorsement given Il
II without my knowledge or CONSENT
ContiDui <, Mr.. Gompers explained
that, in his opinion, tho call for til,
convention was too broaJ, as 1t ex
plicItly Invited all "reiurm, tooihl
educational and sole n,i flc bodies hi
conuemn government ny iuiunOtioD.'
In other words persons entirely re-
mote from anu hnviog no connection
with tho labor movement ooulj have
oeen In attendance aud by over
whelminR numbers directed th'
ooufss, mapped cut the policy anu
dominated the trade union movement
Under such call ne feared that the
labor movement might be diverted
into Irrational aud Improper cnann 81,
Another Turkish scheme.
LONDON, sept. "A dispatcn TO the
Times from Cunslaa,inOpie sayt: In
sultan ~ impatient 10 reopen th'
Cretnn question, hoping thereby Il
chech tne Europoan oonc'rL The
palace councils are ounningly prepai'
lug their campaign, tnough 10 oil, iaI
action has NJ yet been takeo.