The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-04
THE END IS NOW IN SIGHT.
THE GREAT COAL MINERS STRIKE
Is ABOUT OVER.

Is ABOUT OVER.
The Operators Oner a Straight Rate
of 90 Cents TO the End of the Year.
The Proposition Is Recommended
by the Miners Executive Board-It
Provides for Further Adjustments
Between the Two COntending EIc-
ments-It VIII Very Probably He
Adopted.
Columbus, O., Sept, S.-The end of the
great miners strike is in sight.
This afternoon the national executive
board of the United Mine Workers agreed
to recommend to the miners a proposition
from Pittsburg operators for straight
price of 65 cents a ron, to continue in
force until the end of the year. A dele
gates convention of all miners who have
suspended work has been called to meet
in Columbus Sept. s. at 10 a. M, to act
on the recommendations. President Ratch-
ford and the other members of the board
say there is not the slightest doubt but
the miners will approve the recommended
ton. The proposition does not involve
a reason and in effect provides for an
immediate settlement of the strike.
President Ratchford said tonight that
there were special reasons for the board
recommending the proposition. In the
first place it conceded the miners a ma.
terial advance. Had a 69-cent rate been
secured he was confident il could not
have been maintained for moro than seven
ty days. AS soon as the miners ratify
the proposition work will be resumed in
all the mines.
In the second place. the proposition pro-
vides for several joint conferences for the
adjustment of the price. The operators
are pledged to meet with the miners prior
to the termination of the agree
ment and determine the rate of
mining for the next year. Both
the members of the miners ex-
ecutive board and the operators commit
tee are pleased over the outcome of the
conference and feel that public sentiment
will sustain their action.
This morning the operators committee
renewed their first proposition for 69-cent
rate pending arbitration. This was again
rejected by the miners board. Then the
operators committee got together and sub
mitted an opinion for a straight price of
. 65 cents and after long discussion 1t was
accepted by the miners, but subject to the
approval of the miners at large.
The following circular was issued to-
night 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 10 o'clock on
Wednesday morning, Sept 8, 1897.
"Greeting-At a conference held at Col
umbus, o., on Sept. and 3, between the
national executive board and district pres
idents of the United Mine Workers of
America, and a representative committee
of the Plttsburg district operators, whom
we consented to meet only after II became
apparent that a national conference of
operators and miners could not be con-
vened, the following propositions were
submitted by the representatives of the
Pittsburg operators TO the executive board
and district presidents, as the basis of the
settlement to terminate the present strike:
"First-The resumption Of work at a
present rate of mining. The submitting
OF the question to a board of arbitration
to determine what the price shall be, the
maximum to be SO cents and the minimum
to be 60 cents a ton, the price TO be ef
fective from date of resuming work.
''Second-A straight price OF s. cents
ton to continue in force until the end of
the year, with additional mutual UNDER
standing that joint meeting of operators
and miners shall be held in December, 1897,
for the purpose Of determining what the
rate of mining shall be thereafter. Your
executive board and district presidents,
after much deiberation and thorough
consideration of the two propositions do
recommend the latter, as in their judg
ment the best that can be secured, because
of circumstances that are apparent to all
who study market conditions since the in
auguration OF the strike.
you, however Ore the court of final
adjudication and must decide for your
selves what your action shall be and when
work shall be resumed.
Additional reasons will be given and
full report made Of the general situation
az the convention. We would further adj
wise that delegates come untrammeled by
reasons ana uninstructed, other than to
act in your best interest.
cat this time 1t IS deemed advisable. for
the reason that provisions are made in
the uniformity agreement now pending in
the Pittsburg, and which II Is expected
will be operative in that district on or
AFTER Jan. 1, 1898, 10 dfDltfate the QueS-
ton of relative differential between .piclx
and machine mining, which will, we antic-
ipate, do much toward furnishing us
with more reliable data of that question
than we possess at present, and to that
extent will be beneficial to us in settling
questions as between machine and pick
mining"
This is signed Thy the members of the
national executive board and district
presidents. as follows: Fred Dicher r.
l.. Davis, j. n. Kennedy, Henry Stephen
son, Patrick Dolan, members of the ma
tional executive board.
W. Il. Farms, w. G. Knight, Patrick
Doan, district presidents.
NJ. ID. Ratchford, president national ex-
ecutive board.
w. c. Pearce, secretary national execu-
tive board
LYNCHED FOR MURDER.