Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1900-10-20

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vance and Grievances Will BE
Adjusted With Work
Will Probably be Resumed Mon
day-News Received with I'm.
bounded Enthusiasm All Through
the Coal Region.
Philadelphia, Oct 1S.-The conference
between the individual coal operators
and the representatives. of the big coal
carrying Sompauics, with view to
bringing about the termination of the
anthracite coal strike, WAS resumed yes
terday in the private office of President
Harris of the Reading Railway company.
1T resulted in an agreement to aCcedc
to the demands of the United Mine Work
ers convention. The Philadelphia ard
Reading Coal and Iron company issued
the following statement:
This company hereby withdraws the
notices posted Oct 3, 1900, and to bring
about practical uniformity of wages in
the several coal regions gives notice that
it will suspend the opera ton of the slid
ing scale, will pay 10 percent advance
on September wages till April /, 1901, and
thereafter until further notice, and will
take up with it's mine employees any
grievances which they may have"
The Lehigh company, in whose region
the sliding scale is also in operation, VIII
issue similar notice, as will also the
individual operators who were repre-
sented at the meeting This meets all
the demands of the strikers, and means
the immediate ending of the strike.
Yesterdays action was the elimination
of the recent meeting of the individual
operators at Scranton. following the
Mine Workers convention in the same
city. Nearly all of the collieries in the
coal region had, previous to the Mine
Workers convention, posted notices
granting an advance of 10 percent. The
mine workers, in considering TINS, de-
manded that the sliding scale be ab"l-
ishcd, the increase to be guaranteed until
April /, 1901, and all other differences to
be submitted to arbitration.
The individual operators agreed to
everything, and the appointment OF Il
committee to induce the Reading and the
Lehigh companies to abolish the sliu-
ing scale and make the wage Increase
permanent followed. 1t is conceded
that the result of the conference Is n
complete victory for the men, All the
demands of their convention are acceded
to. and. as one of the individual opera tors
put it after the conference. the operators
go little further in agreeing to main
tain the wage advance after April |.
This sans opera tor, who requested that
Ills name be not used, said, in speaking
of the conferences: ITS all up to the
miners now. We have agreed to every
thing, and nothing remains now but for
them to return to work as soon as the
rotices are posted by the colliery man
ayers. These notices will be practically
similar to the Reading company's no.
tice, the phrasaology only being changed
1 look for a resumption of operations
by Monday at the latest The conference
was entirely harmonious, and every
phase Of the strike situation was gone
over"
Just how soon the official order notify
ing the men that the strike is ended and
to return to work will be issued by
President Mitchell can only be conjec-
tured. 1t is believed here that no order
to return to work will be issued until a
notice similar to. or in line with, that
of the Reading and Lehigh companies is
Hazelton, Pa, Oct. 1S.-The news from
Philadelphia spread through the entire
region with almost lightning rapidity
Everywhere satisfaction was expressed
by the striking miners and others. 1t
is confidently believed that the strika
will be officially declared off this week.
and that all of the men will have a chance
to return to work by Monday. Presi-
dent Mitchell informed all in1uirers that
the strike would be declared off by none
but the United Mine Workers officials,
and added that no mine worker should
return to the mines until a notice to that
| effect is issued from labor headquarters.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Oct. 1S.-The Press
| bulletin posted here, announcing that the
! operators in conference at Philadelphia
| had decided to meet the demands of the
! strikers, was received with the greatest
| enthusiasm by all classes. The strik-
| ers gathered before the newspaper offices
and the news was wildly ch aered.
An Important Capture.
Manila, oct 1S.-Undcr cover of a
| stormy night, Captain Elliot of the
| Fortieth infantry surprised the rebel
| headquarters near Oroquiotn island OF
| Mindanao, and captured without fight
| ing, General Alvarez with his staff and
| 25 soldiers. The capture Will tend to
| pacify the district, as Alvarez had for a
long time been provoking hostility in
Mindanao. Detachments of the Twen-
ty-siXth and Eighteenth regiments
| gagged the rebels near Tubungan,