The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-04-26
1t is Reached by the Sub
Committee
GOES TO FULL COMMITTEE
The Terms Are Not to Be Made Public
Until May 2-The Conference
Will Be Held in New
York Then.

Philadelphia, April Confirmation
Of report that the anthracite miners
and operators had reached an agreement
in settlement OF their dispute as to
wages and hours of labor was had yes
terday, when the Office of President Baer
in this city gave out the following:
Mr.. George +. Baer, the chairman Of
the operators committee, has issued a
call for q meeting of the general COM
mittees of operators and miners repre-
sentatives in New York ON Thursday,
May 2, at 2 p. M, TO receive and act
upon the report of the subcommittee
appointed by the general committee to
suggest method of settling differences;
the subcommittee having unanimously
submitted a recommendation Of terms
and conditions looking to an adjustment
of all differences.
THE terms and conditions OF this re.
port. however, will not be made public
until after the meeting of the general
committees on the second of May"
The report that the subcommittee had
reached an agreement and that the new
pact includes ten per cent. increase in
wages, was received with satisfaction IN
all parts of the anthracite regions The
new working agreement will be present
ed to the full committee of ten operators
and ten miners on May 2. If this com
mittee approves it, the proposed agree.
ment will have to be ratified by the min.
ers before it can be put into effect. This
probably viii be done at a convention of
delegates from the three anthracite dis
triets.
According to the reported agreement,
the miners are conceded a ten per cent
increase in wages. They asked for TWEEN
ty per cent.
The board Of conciliation created by
the anthracite coal strike commission
after the strike of 1902, with some modifi-
cations. is continued The miners asked
for more convenient and uniform sys.
tenn of adjusting local grievances"
The sliding scale by which the men
were given an increase of one per cent.
when the price of coal was advanced five
cents ton above the $3.50 basis at tide
water, is abolished.
A four year agreement is reported.
The miners asked for one-year agree
ment.
Nothing has yet been made public re-
gading the demand for a reduction Of
hours recognition of the union or the |
minor demands. 1t is possible that the /
executive committee Of the three anthra- |
cite districts, headed by National Pres |
ident John White, may order the work |
ers back at an early date and trust to /
the convention to indorse their course.
New York. April 26. Negotiations be- !
tween the subcommittee We're halted /
owing to the absence from the /
city of the mine workers president, John I
p White, who left Wednesday night I
for Indianapolis Another meeting Of
the subcommittee is scheduled for May +
2. 1t is expected that the tentative 4
agreement will be drafted at this meet
ing and placed later before the opera
tors committee of ten and the full or
of the miners.
One of the leading coal operators de-
,lared Yesterday that the subcommittee
had nearly reached an agreement and
that the several matters yet to be set
lied would be disposed Of at the meeting
On Nav 2. An advance in wages and
indirect recognition of the union, he
,aid. were concessions made to the min
,rs by the operators, subject to the rati
ication OF the operators committee Of