The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-23
|SUb-COMM|TTEE|S | UNABLE ID ADJUST
 | ThE DIFFERENCES Further Negotiations Are Postponed Until Next Tuesday
 WAGE BILL PASSES
 | COMMITTEE STAGE Indications Point to Settlement Of the English Strike by April 1-Men Wish to Return to Work. Day of Changes

CleveIsnd March 22.--Negotlatlons Between the 900 miners in the oi- |tuminous coal fields of western i'enn- Isylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois and operators for an adjustment of wage difficulties late tonight were postponed until next Tuesday. The postponement fo.,owed convic- tion expressed by both sides that an agreement at this time for a new two [year wage and working scale to take keffect April i was impossible. Mine workers and operators then joined in Ia resolution that rather than cause a ksusp pension, not only the mines in the Flour states directly concerned, but also lin all other union bituminous mines. they would make a.other effort to |agree.
 The policy committee of the United Mine Workers of America is to meet here Monday to consider the wage dis pute of the anthracite miners. All of the S2 operators left for their |ihomes tonight but they announced that 1they would return here tuesday. Reject Concessions | After meeting of the subcommittee considering the difference between the bituninous coal operators and miners this Tafternoon it was announced that the
 ' miners had rejected a proposition of the X operators to continue the present wage agreement.
 Previously the operators had held out for 10 cent decrease.
 The offers were:
 rrt.-a ,-lxiv scale be continued for two years after its
 expiration on April 1.
 That there be no suspension of the mines on any account.
 ss The miners had asked for 10 per cent 'Pincrease in pay and a shortening of work- ing hours. AS against this the operators had asked that the wage scale be cut down 10 per cent.
 No Settlement Likely Indications that there would be no inns mediate settlement gwero shosrn +, the afternoon, when d sub-conmitte, com posed of eight miners and eight operators. began considering compromise which they were to report back to the full con ference.
 The full conference, composed of 64 members, for two days had heard the de-
 mands of the miners for 10 per cent in- crease and a reduction of a days working hours from eight to seven with five hours on Saturdays and had failed to agree The whole dispute then had been referred to the subcommittee, When the subcommittee met the miners renewed their demands. John P. White, president of the United Mine Workers of America, told the committee: conditions are fuch that the coal miners of this country cannot with their present pay live as they ought to live. They are not on a par with other labor and we will not continue 70 work after April 1 with our present pay and long working hours. If our demands are grant, ed we will go right on without a suspen- sion; if they are denied or modified, we will suspend"
 Increase Not Warranted The eight operators replied that the de- mand altogether would cause 8 20 per cent increase in the payroll, and that this in- crease was not warranted by the present earning power of the mines. A vote showed the miners unanimous in their rejection of the compromise The operators made known that any f failure to agree at this time was not final, as they had arranged for reconvening on ' call. If any change developed from the meeting of the unions policy committee < here next Monday they said they might reconvene late next week to resume ne-