The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-08
MINING AGREEMENT SIGNED.
ALL MEN VINO DIDN'T COMMIT
VIOLENCE TO orr Old JOBS.
Mitchell Argued for q Two Years Pact.
hut the Operators Won Out fer Three
Ye~ars-suinmer Reduction In Prices
win he Made Effective Immediately.

win he Made Effective Immediately.
The b~ackdown Of the anthraoit IL mine
workers last week, when they decided to
accept the propositions OF the operators.
was made official yesterday by President
Mitchell Of the United Mine Workers and his
committee signing an agreement by which
the conditions provided under the award
Of the anthracite strike commission are TO
continue for three years longer. The
miners are to 90 back to work as soon as the
oollieries are ready, which will DO about the
end OF this week.
The agreement was signed at q meeting
Of the operators committee OF seven and
the miners committee. District President
George Hartlein, one Of the miners COM
mittee, was unable to come. The agree
ment Is as follows.
Whereas, pursuant to letters Of submis-
sion signed by the undersigned In 1907. "au
questions at issue between the respective
companies and their own employees whether
they belong to a union or not" We're submitted
to the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission
to decide as to the same and as to the con-
ditions of employment between the respective
companies and their own employees ana
the said strike commission, under date OF
March IS. 1908. duly made and filed Its award
upon the subject matter Of the submission
and provided that said award should continue
In force for three years from April 1. 1908.
and the said period had expired.
Now, therefore, 1t 10 stipulated between
the undersigned In their own behalf, and so
far as they have powers to represent any
other parties In interest, that the said award
and the provisions thereof and any action
which has been since taken pursuant thereto.
either by the Cancellation Board or other
- It'll 4. --ka-InA and Qhan NnntlnnA
In force for three years from April /, 1905.
namely, until March 81. 1909, with like force
and effect as II that had been originally
prescribed as its duration.
That work shall be resumed as soon as
practicable, and that all men who have not
committed VIGILANCE shall be reemployed
In their old positions.
The agreement was signed for the oper-
ators by George F. Baer, E. B. Thomas.
w. Il. Truesdale, David WILCOX, John b.
Kerr, Morris williams and James L..
On behalf of the mine workers 1t was signed
by John Mitchell, T. d. Nichols, John
Dempsey, W. H. Dettrey, John P. Gala
CHER and John Fahy.
The conference began about . P. NJ. In
the rooms Of the Trunk Lines Association,
143 Liberty street, and lasted about an
hour and a half. Mr.. Baer then came out
and said to the reporters:
Everything is settled. We are getting
copies Of the agreement ready
Asked IL everything was satisfactory,
he replied: Everything Is lovely and the
goose hangs high
The conference, 1t was learned. was
amicable all the way through. Mitchell
argued strongly in favor OF a two years,
instead OF a three years agreement. He
said that it was possible that the cost OF
living will have gone up in three years.,
which, he said would render necessary q
readjustment Of the wage system.
The operators met thi argument by
saving that il the cost Of living would go
up the price Of coal, with all other neces-
saries, would 60 up, and this under the
Gliding scale provided under the award
of the Anthracite Strike Commission, would
increase the wages OF the mixers. Under
the sliding scale the mine workers receive
one per cent. increase in wages for every
five per cent. increase in the selling price
Of the product over $3.50 a ton.
That settled Mitchell's contentious, and
then the question Of the return OF the miners
came up. The operators we're inclined to
reserve to themselves the right to take
back whom they pleased. Mitchell OBJ
jected to this, stating that 1t would be
unfair to exercise any discrimination.
| Mitchell seemed very anxious on this point,
and IL was finally agreed that all the mine
| workers who have not committed violence
to persons or property shall have their
jobs back.
Mitchell would make no comment on the
agreement when he came from the meet
inR. John Fahy, one Of the district presi-
| dents. was asked II the commit ee came
with power to make q settlement. de
replied: -,
III we had not power to act we would
not be here
Mitchell and his committee left the city
last evening to attend the convention In
Scranton to-day. At this convention the
agreement will be ratified as a matter OF
form. Mitchell, however, will again have
to tell the miners that he could get no con-
c~essions unless the reinstatement OF the
| miners can be looked on as q concession.
It was announced in the afternoon that
| the Lehigh Valley Company had put into
| effect the summer reduction in the prices OF
domestic anthracite, and the Reading Conn
| pany will do the same to-day. President
Truesdale Of the Delaware, Lackawanna
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be made general without delay.
THAT is to say he said. 'the prices
which would be ruling in thism month II there
was no strike will go into effect. The May
reduction is 40 cents a ton
The summer reduction begins In April OF
every year in normal years, when so cents a
ton is taken of. The price lie then raised
10 cents a ton each month succeeding unit
the original price is reached.
A meeting Of the coal dealers was held
yesterday afternoon at $50 Sixth avenue,
at which the following retail prices were
agreed on, to 60 into effect to-day. being a
reduction of rs cents a ton:
Domestic sizes: White ash, SOS q ton;
red ash, o., Small steam sizes: Pea, S4.2S
No. 1 buokwheat, $s,75; No. 2 buokwheat,
$3.25.
A representative Of the Coal Merchants
| Association said that as soon as the summer
reduction was put generally into effect by
the operators it will also be put into effect
by the dealers, in addition to the reduction
| which goes into effect to-day.