The age-herald., 1897-09-04
CALLED TO MEET IN COLUMBUS, 0.
On Next Wednesday, By the National Execu- tive Board and National Pres-
 dents of the Miners.
ASKED TO COME UNRESTRICTED
President Ratchford and Members of the Board Express Opinions That the Straight Price Will Be Acceptable to
 the Men-The Call
 as Issued.

Columbus, O., Sept. 3.-The end of the great miners strike is in sight This af- ternoon the national executive board of the United Mins Workers agreed to re- commend to the miners a proposition from the Pittsburg operators for a straight price of 65 cents a ton, to con- tinue in force until the end of the year. IA delegate convention of all miners who meet in Columbus Sept 8, at 10 a. m., to act upon the recommendation President Ratchford and members of the board say there is not the slightest doubt but the miners will approve the recommend ation. The proposition does not involve arbitra- tion and in effect provides for an imme- diate settlement of the strike. President Ratchford said tonight that there were
 
 special reasons for the board recommend ing the proposition. In the first place it comedies the miners a material advance Had 69-cenlt scale been secured he was confident it could not have been main- tained for more than seventy days As soon as the miners ratify the propo,iion work will be resumed in all the mines In the second place the proposition pro- vides for revival of the joint conference for the adjustment of prices. The opera tors are pledged to meet with the miners prior to the termination of the agree ment and determine the rate for mining for the next year. Both 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 commit tee renewed their first proposition for Scent rate pending arbitration. This Was again rejected by the miners board. Then the operators committee got to- gether and submitted a new proposition for straight price for 65 cents, and after a long discussion 1t was accepted by the niners, but subject to the approval of the miners at large. The following cir cular was issued tonight by the board: cuqar was issued tonight by the national executive board:
 "To the Mine Workers Who Have Sus-
 pended Work in the Different States:
 You are hereby notified that a con- vention will be hald in Columbus O., on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 1897.
 Greeting. At a conference held at Columbus, O., on Sept. and 8, between the national executive board and district presidents of the United Mine Workers of America and representative committee of the Pittsburg district operators, whom we consented to meet only after 1t became apparent that a national conference of operators and miners could not be con yened.
 
 'The following propositions were sub mitted by the reprs sentatives of the Pittsburg operators to the executive board and district presidents as the basis of settlement to terminate the sent strike:
 First. The resumption of work at a 64 cent rate of mining. The submitting of the question to arbitration to det=r- mine what the price shall be. the maxi mum toi be ss cents andDthe minimum to be 50 cents ton, the price to be effec- tiy4 from date of resuming work.
 Second. A straight price of e5 cents a tom to contiue in force until the end of the year, with the additional mutual under standing that q joint meeting of operat- ors 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 mucL deliberation and a thorough consideration of the two prop ositions do recommend the latter as in their Judgment the best that can be se-