Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-08
For Three Year Period and the Miners
Will Return to Work Soon,
Agreement Is Operators First Proposition in Ans
wer to Miners Demands --Wi|| Be Ratified.

New York. May after carrying on
negotiations for nearly three months
III" S1h-c"inInittc"s representing the
anthracite mine workers ana operators,
of Eastern Pennsylvania today agreed
To continue the award OF the strike
| commission for another three years
ami the men will return to work ;,s
| suom as prIcticahlc, probably Monday.
All miners who have not committed vi
oicnrc against persons or property will
he rc-cnploycd and no one will be dis
criminatcd against because Of amy ac-
tiNtE ne may have taken in the stiikc
| movement. The agreement is subject
| to the ratification of the t"i-hiStrict
| tomorrow. but there Is not the slightest
doubt that the delegates vii! approve
the action Of their representatives.
This outcome Of Il dispute which
threatened TO develop into a long. bit
| ter struggle and par;ilyzc i great in
duStry was looked upon without con
| siderable satisfaction by the coal roa,i
presidents, as the agreement entered
| into is their first proposition made car
| ~ in March in reply t. the mine work
| orS' demands The miners had little {"
| say regarding the agreement except
| that it WAS the best they could get.
They pointed out, however. that th'
| agi cement entered int" is the first gen
| cral agreement that has ever been sign
| Cd rrtWtcn the operators ana miners
| and they look upon il as !; Step forward
| in their efforts 10 have regular agree
m"rf@ with their employers.
Tie following is the text of the aGrrc-
| mcnt:
"Whcrtas. pursuant I" the letter of
/ submission signed ~ the unit resigned
in l"". II questions at issue between the
| respective companies ANA their num
| employers whether they belong Ia :, I'M
| ion Or not was submitted I" the An
| thrI"ii" Coal Strike Commission To- de
| cIdr "S I" tic sam" and us to tile
| conditions Of employment between tho
| respective cnMpini"S ana their nWn
| employees ANA the said strike culnmiS-
sion under daf" If March is. 1nn3. duly
HIdC .Ind filed its award 'Ipon the sub
i"Ct matter of tn" submission and ulr,-
| N''' ''"' ""',' ''""''' H'''"i" '""'ui"'
- l'''' III '''l'' Years Ir"hf Nrf' 4.
| 1903 ana the said period las expired
| Now, therefore. il is stipulated 10
| tween the undersigned in their own
'"i''i'' III ~ TAI KS iii'H nay" power l."
| represent any other parties IN interest
;hat the said award and She provisions
| '''i'' "hd "liN ~ 'l'h Whl'n l'ifS SING"
| h'cli taken l'ifS''h' thereto. "Itl"F hy
| w" '"hclll'l'"h hoard or otherwise,
| shall u" extended ana shall continue in
force Tor tire" years from April |. 1906,
| hHm"Iy nntii March II. i."o. with lik"
tore" M "h"r' as II That has hccn or
| ISlhally prescribed rs It's duration. That
| Work snail he resumed as soon aS Erac-
| ticablc. that all men who have not
committed Violence to person or prop
crt: shall hc rc-cmploycd in their old
positions.
George i. E;.cr. T.. y. Thomas w n
Truos,,aIn David NiIl,nv Jobn II
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