The Sentinel=record., 1912-03-30
COAL STRIKE
 IS SETTLED
OPERATORS AND MINERS AGREE UPON NEW SCALE OF PAY
 BASED ON PRICE PER TON.
Increase for Men Paid by the Day Will Be 5.25 per cent-AII op- orators Agree to Grant
 the Increase.

Cleveland Ohio March 29-set clement of the bituminous coal miners wage dispute on a basis satisfactory to both sides was announced late to. night as having been practically ar ranged.
 A subcommittee to which the op- orators and miners conference had referred a compromise offer by the miners, said it had agreed to the set tlement and the terms were being drawn up.
 The terms as given out provide for increases in pay to the miners as fol lows:
 Five cents ton for mining lump coal.
 Three cents a ton for mining all other coal.
 5.25 per cent increase for men paid by the day.
 E. A. Cole, representing the Ohio operators. and H. M. Taylor, repre- senting the Illinois operators, said shortly before midnight that all the operators of western Pennsylvania. Ohio, Indiana and Illinois had agreed to grant the increase. They said the agreement would be basis for making new wage scales of bitumi- nous miners in other states.
 President White of the union. at midnight said a meeting between the anthracite miners and operators had been definitely decided on The mem bers of the operatjrs' committee Of 10 will meet with the anthracite com mittee in New York, he said. at a date which probably will be fixed to- morrow.
 Summarized. the facts about the anthracite miners. are:
 Number of miners affected 170,0y0 in Pennsylvania, as follows: Lack awanna and Wyoming Valley, 70,000; I4azIeton and Panther Creek Valley. 10000: Pittsville and Lykens Valley, 60,000
 Demands: Twenty per cent in- crease in pay; eight hours a day in stead of nine; complete recognition of the union; adoption of a system whereby the operators would deduct from the pay the union dues each month and give it direct to the na- tional union; modification of the con ciliation board created in 1902 to en- able employees to deal more directly with employers; one year instead of three-year contracts.
 Demands rejected by the operators in New York on March 13.
 Offer of the operators to continue the present scale rejected by miners.
 The suspension was signed by the presidents of the three anthracite dis tricts aud the executive board of the United Mine Workers Of America aft CT they had decided the lack Of a wage agreement within two days of the expiration of the present one made it imperative the men should be officially informed whether they were to co2tinue work.
 Hope of an early resumption of the anthracite business affair now under suspension. however, was not entire ly abandoned It was said the situa- ton brought about bg the suspension order might help in determining what steps may be taken to bring both sides together.
 All of the anthracite union men took the position that any offer of reconsideration of the differences should come from the operators head quarters.
 A report from New York that the operators were not disposed to refuse all the demands but were willing, perhaps. to grant slight increase was thought to have done much to- ward creating a desire among the miners to make the suspension as short as possible
 As sustaining their demands for increased pay the union gave out this statement:
 Our desire for a 20 per cent in crease in pay will not seem unrea sonable when it is learned that mos' of the 170,000 anthracite miners work only about two-thirds of the 1 time. The average working time fol each man last year was 240 days anC the average salary earned by eaci man for the year was about $5u0, ol less than $t0 a week Our men ar' taking more risk than they do in oth or countries. The total number O men killed for the last 10 years wa 24037. The yearly record of death in mines is now about 2,S00. In tn limited States Sae Geath rate Tor lo 00O is S.91 as compared with l.4S il Great Britain, and it is more thai double that of any other coal produC inp country in Europe.
 W plan for settlement of the was dispu,e in the bituminous fields II volying more than 3O0,000 miners wa .proposed today by the union officials The miners proposed to drop all thel original demands for a 10 per cen increase and for radical changes
 working conditions and substitute fo Nthem the following
 IN That they be given an increase owe Ne present ssa cents to
 rba - | an increase ( 1 n other. or 'rn