The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-08
BACK TO THE MINES
REACHED BETWEEN
 MINERS AND OPERATORS.
Award of strtke Communication Will Hold For Three More Years And All
 Strikers VIII Re Re- emu1Oyed.

New York. May 7.--After carrying
 on negotiations for nearly three months
 the sub-committees representing the
 anthracite mine workers and operators
 of eastern Pennsylvania today agreed
 to continue the award of the strike
 com mission for another three years ana
 the men will return to work as soon
 as practicable. probably Monday.
 All the miners who have not com
 n,,ttes violence against persons or prop
 erty will be re-employed and no one
 will be discriminated against because
 of any activity he may have taken
 in the strike movement. The agree-
 ment is subject to the notifications or
 the tri-district convention or the mine
 workers at Scranton tomorrow. put
 there is not the slightest duobt that
 the delegates will approve the aclio"
 of their representatives.
 This outcome of dispute which
 threatened to develop into long. Dit
 ter struggle and paralyze great in-
 dustry, was looked upon with con
 siderable satisfaction by the coal road presidents. as the agreement entered into is their first proposition mace early in March, in reply to the mine workero original demands. These min | agreement, except that 1t was the best they could do. The pointed out, how ever, that the agreement entered into | is the first general agreement that hasj | ever been signd between the operatocs | and miners and they look upon It as | d step forward in their efforts to have regular agreements with their em- ployers.
 | While the compact entered into today | was predicted last week, the agreement was not reached without a final strug- gle on the part of the miners to get something more. President Mitchell. III stating to the operators the action or I the Scranton convention asked that the proposed agreement be made for two years In arguing for the two year term he said the cost of living might | increase considerably in three years, and that other changes in the mining industry might come that would make the present wage scale unfair to the | men. The operators. in their reply, said they felt that any contingency that might arise was covered by the awards of the strike commission and they con cluded by asking that the award be continued for three years. This was then agreed to.
 Tn taking up the question of discrim- iration against some of the men. IL was the intention of the mine owners to take back only such men as they chose to re-employ, but President Nit chell contested this point so strongly that the opera Snrs withdrew It. The first iGimation that an agree ment had beoM reached came from MT Baer. who left the room to have copies made of the agreement In reply to question he smiled and said:
 Everything is lovely and the goose hangs high"
 After the meeting adjourned MT. Baer handed copy of the agreement 10 re presentative of the operators who read it to the waiting newspaper men
 The district presidents and secreta- ries left for Scranton this evening. President Mitchell will go later reach- ing that city In time to preside over the convention. No date ras been oni- cially set for the resumption Of work I; was thought that Thursday would DO se lected, but as some of the mines are moi in good condition for an imme- diate resumption, the beginning of op- erations may be delayed until Monday. This is the sixth week of the suspension and represents loss in production or about 5,000,000 tons