The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-03
THE coal SITUATION
Uniformity Agreement Put Into
Shape, and Will Be
Signed Today.

PrTTSBURG, Pa, Aug. 3, 1Ss7.-Sig-
natures will be appended today TO the
conformity agreement which has been
in preparation for a week. Those menu
bers of the committee who are coal pro-
ducers will sign it and at once start OUT
to visit the owners or managers OF the III
mines. which are named as necessary 70
he included within the compact, to secure
additional signatures.
Those who were appointed by the con
vention of operators to put the document
in proper form and to consult with at
torneys as to legal phases of it, are con-
fident the compact will be acceptable ana
will be signed by the required IS per cent.
of the owners or managers of mines, ana
that a better day dawns upon the coal
industry of the Pittsburg district, which
means more orderly production and less
contention between the operators and
miners.
The general purpose and provisions OF
the agreement are generally understood.
The changes suggested are substantially
incorporated in the eleventh section or
paragraph, which provides that all dis
putes arising shall be submitted to the
commission. If the decision rendered by
the Commission is not satisfactory, an
appeal can be taken and the matter
placed in the hands of a board OF arni-
tration for final settlement.
The agreement shall then be filed in
the County Courts and thereafter the de-
cisions shal have the same force and
effect as a rule of court. The award will
be final and conclusive Upon all parties
and execution for the amount of such
award and costs may issue forthwith for
the collection of the same.
1t is hoped to have the required num-
Der of signers in time to call them to-
gether some time within the present
month TO perfect arrangements to carry
it into effect. When this has been done
the operators, as per the terms of the
contract, will be ready to confer with the
miners about the settlement of the strike.
and to prepare for a joint meeting OF
miners and operators to agree on a wage
scale to go into effect concurrently with
the uniformity agreement. January J.
1898.
The strikers are slowly winning their
points about the De Armit mines.
They have already practically clos
ed the Sandy Creek and Oak Hill
mines and the Plum Creek men
are Ill Out III oii1eA
marchers claim that they have succeeded
in inducing the miners who live at Coal
port where the Plum Creek tipple IS To-
Gated, to join the ranks. This REDUCES
the number of men in the mine to 30. The
1000 miners in camp at Little Creek have
been Joined by a dozen women who will
do their cooking for them.
President Dolan expressed himself as
positive that the strike will be over in
two weeks after De Armitt's mines are
closed. The total output of the Oak
Hill mine yesterday was eight cars, and
it will be less today as fewer men are at
work. When running full the capacity is
1a0 to 14O cars. The new men are not at
work now, Dolan having found a way to
keep them out.
A Hungarian miner was attacked by a
woman this morning as he was entering
the pit at Plum Creek, to which he had
ventured alone. No deputies were guard
ing him, and the woman. after throwing
rocks at him. chased him and caught
him by the neck. Before she had time to
hit him, six of the strikers ran forward
and made her release her squirming zap
tive. They had to hold her until the
Hun was in the mine. AS he disappeared
she shouted out to him that she would be
waiting for him when he left the mine.