The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-05-14
SIGNATURES AFFIXED SHORTLY
BEFORE MIDNIGHT. AFTER
MANY CONFERENCES
Great struggle % Eastern Ohio coaI
FIELDS Now Formally 40 an Enc.
Back 20 the Mines

shortly before midnight this morn
INK Information was given out from
the headquarters Of the Pittsburgh
Vein Operators Association by Secre.
tary John Zelenka that everything
had been settled and that the opera
tors and miners officials had Just com.
pleted their final conference. and the
scale had been formally and Jointly
signed Everything Is now com.
pleted. said Mr.. Zelenka. as he gently
hung up the telephone.
The above IL the fnal chapter o,
the long-drawn-out disagreement,
among the Eastern Ohio coal opera.
tors and miners. formally and oricIaL
~ bringing to a close the IA months
coal strike. It's now back TO the
mines" for $1,000 strikers. who came
out April I. 1914. and have not struck
lick since in the mines OF Eastern
Ohio.
Apparently there was some hitch
between the operators and miners OF
hcials relative to the signing OF the
scale. However. this statement II no,
Official Almost the entire day yes.
terday was spent In conferences. The
first was held during the morning al
the Windsor hotel Immediately upon
arrival OF the officials OF both sides.
Later in the day another meeting was
held. followed by a conference among
the operators alone The final SEES
sion was at the operators headquar-
tiers In the German bank building, last.
ing for several hours last night, re-
sulting in the Official information for
publication as given above after IL
O'Clock.
Representative sign.
IL Is reported that those signing the
joint scale agreement for the miners
were:
International President John p.
White. Vice-President John HAYS,
Secretary Treasurer william Green.
District President John Moore, Vice.
President Lee Hall, Secretary-Treas-
urer q. w. Savage. Subdistrict Presi,
dent G. j. Albasin, Vice-President
William Roy. Acting Secretary-Treas-
urer Frank. Ledvinka and members OF
the scale committee signed for the
miners.
w. r. Woodford. president OF the
Pittsburgh Vein Operators associa.
ton. Secretary John Zelenka, c. T..
Mauer. 8. II. Robbins and T. X. Nah.
rer signed for the operators, II is re-
ported.
Orders were sent out YESTERDAY
from all mine headquarters for the
foremen of their respective companies
TO Immediately get their mines in
shape for resumption as quickly as
possible. Orders came from Cleye
land 10 prepare all mines in Belmont
county for long run. Yesterday saw
hundreds OF men about the Lorain
Coal and Dock company, the Y. & o
Coal company. Rail & River Coal
! company. Pursglove-Mahr Coal com
pany. United States Coal company
Robey Coal company. Ohio and Penn
sylvania. Robey-Somers and a number
OF others. busy getting the plants ir
shape for resumption. Deputy mine
inspectors. who have the rescue cal
at Bridgeport, were also busy makins
official inspections of the many
mines. Mules are being brought from
their long rest in pastures, and every
thing IL being gotten in ship-shape
for work. The railroads will have
sufficient supplies OF empties at the
tipples.
II IL expected that within ten DAYS
all the many idle mines in Eastern
Ohio will be in operation and the hum
OF activity will once more be heard
through this section OF the Ohio val
ley while the dove OF peace will still
hover over the Eastern Ohio coal
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