Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-09-07
MUST AWAIT A VOTE.
Miners Officials Accept a Plan
for Ending the Strike.
TO SUBMIT IT FOR RATIFICATION.
Provides for Resumption of Work at
e5 Cents Until End of the Year
Convention to Act Mt Columbus,
o., Wednesday Next.


agreed to recommend to the miners
q proposition from the Pittsburgh OPP
orators for a straight price of 66 cents
q ton, to continue in force until the
end of the year. A delegate conNen-
Mon of all miners who have suspended
work has been called to meet In Co
lumbus, September 8, at ten o'clock
a. M, to act upon the recommends
ton. President Ratchford and the
other members Of the board soy there
ts not the slightest doubt but that
the miners will approve the recon-
mendation. The proposition does not
Involve arbitration, and in effect pro
rides for an immediate settlement Of
the strike. President Ratchford said
bthat there were special reasons for
fhe board recommending the PROPOSE
tion. In the first place 1t comedies the
miners o material advance. Had go
cent rate been secured he was confident
1t could not have been maintained for
more than 70 days.
4 The proposition does away with all
the uncertainties of arbitration and
will bring the strike to q speedy termi-
nation. AS soon as the miners ratify
the proposition work will be resumed
An all the mines. In the second place
the proposition provides for q revival
of the joint conferences for the adj
justment Of prices. The operators are
pledged to meet with the miners prior
to the termination of the agreement
1n%n 10 ~ {,{, fnv
the next year.
/ Both the members Of the miners ex-
ecutive board and the operators COM
mittee are pleased over the outcome
of the conference and feel that public
sentiment will sustain their action.
Friday morning the operators COM
mittee renewed their first proposition
3or 65-cent rate pending arbitration.
This was again rejected by the miners
board. Then the operators commit
tee got together and submitted new
proposition for a straight price Of 6s
cents, and after long discussion it
was accepted by the miners board,
subject to the approval of the miners
at large.
Z The following circular has been is
sued by the national executive board:
ITO the Mine Workers Who Have sus-
pended Work In the Different States: You
are hereby notified that a convention will
be held at Columbus, O., at ten o'clock
a. m. on Wednesday, September 8, 1897. At
q conference held at Columbus. o.. on Sep
TENDER and 8 between the national ex-
pcutive board and district presidents OF
The United Mine Workers Of America and
%ntt Sc no
burg district operators, whom we consented
10 meet only after Il became apparent that
a national conference of operators and
miners could not be convened, the following
propositions were submitted by the repre-.
sentatives of the Pittsburgh operators to
as the basis Of a settlement to terminate
the present strike:
First The resumption Of work at the
6l-cent rate Of mining. The submitting OF
the question to a board OF arbitration to de-
ternnine what the price shall be, the maxi.
mum to be SO cents and the minimum te
be 90 cents a ton, the price to be effective
from date OF reeuming work.
Second. A straight price of 65 cents {
ton to continue in force until the end of thu
year. with the additional mutual under
standing that joint meeting OF operators
and miners shall be held In December. 1897
Tor the purpose Of determining what the
rate Of mining shall be thereafter.
Your executive board and district presi.
dents, after much deliberatiop and a thor.
do recommend the latter as, In their judg
ment. the best that can be secured, because
lot circumstances that are apparent to al
who study market conditions since the in
ausuration Of the strike. You, however
are the court Of final adjudication. and
tions shall be and when work shall be re-
spned. Additional reasons will be giver
In full report made OF the general s!tua
tton at the convention. We would furthe,
advise that delegates come untrammelet
by resolutions and uninStructed, other thar
to act In your best interest
AT this time It ie deemed advisable 70,
the reason that provisions are made Ia tn.
uniformity agreement now pending In til,
Pittsburgh district and which It Is ex
peoted will be operative in that district OF
and after January !, 1898, to arbttrate thu
question Of relative differential between
pick and machine mining. which will. W,
anticipate, do much towards furnishing VI
with more reliable data on that questio,
than we possess at present. and to that ex
tent win be beneficial to us in settling
questions as between machine and picl
mining"
The circular is signed by the mem
beers of the national executive board an
district presidents.
Will End the Strike.
The state board of arbitration of Obi
(which has been in communication wit
the committee of operators and miner,
union officials during their conferences
being asked for an expression abou
the settlement, gave this statement:
THE settlement Is q most fortunate to,
mination Of the strike. There has bee
no question In any quarter that miner,
wages should be increased The only ques
tion was how much. Considering the diff
culties in the way on both sides in regar
to the adjustment, whichever propositio
be accepted, as a fair and reasonable on
It reflects great credit upon both partieI
The operators went more than half wa
and sacrifice not a little, but this Is dor
generously and ungrudgingly, with til
purpose Of securing to their employees
living wage, and their action is apprt
piSted and met In spirit OF kindness an
kAir dealing. We regard 1t as a foregon
conclusion that the settlement will b
formally ratified on Wednesday next, an
bee no reason why work may not be n
tumed at once. A half weeks work wi
k11us DO saved and large sum Of much
heeded money earned. There should be q
further time lost"
Pittsburgh, Pa, Sept. 4.-The settl,
pnent Of the coal strike on the basis {
the proposition now under considers
ton at the Columbus conference wi
have no effect upon the future action {
the New York and Cleveland Gas Co,
company, according to the statement
president De Armit. Said he:
Even II the great bituminous coal stril
H. settled In every state and district Il
vo1ved, and all the strikers return to wor
pending arbitration on new price, II
miners of the New York and Clevelan
Gas Coal company will have to fight 1t o,
with the company and return to work I