The sun., 1919-09-30
HARD COAL MINERS
WIN WAR PAY SCALE
General Strike in Anthracite
Field Averted by Action
Of Operators.
PACT BINDS TO MARCH 81
Continuation of Agreement
Was Demanded at Tri-Dis-
trict Convention.
PACT BINDS TO MARCH 81
Special Despatch to THE Sos,

PH1LApELrHIA, Sept. 39.--Demands 'oi
tho anthracite mine workers organiza'
ton for war scale wages until Marcf
81, 1920. were granted to-day by tho
hard coal operators.
The action eliminates the possibilities
Of a general strike in the anthracite
fields, which was threatened by the
workers TO take place on November l.
should their demands be refused.
The conference, which lasted into the
e> ening, was held in the offices Of the
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron
Company in the Terminal Building
Those affixing their signatures to the
new agreement were:
on behalf OF the anthracite operators;
S. d. Warringer. president of the Lehigh
Coal and Navigation Company; w. j.
Richards, president Of the Philadelphia
and Reading Coal and Iron Company;
c. F. Huber, president of the Lehigh
and Wilkesbarre Coal Company. and w.
L. Connell, an independent operator.
On behalf OF the anthracite mine
workers organization: John T. Demp-
sey, president of District No. !; Thomas
Kennedy, president Of District No. 7, and
c. ]. Golden, president OF District No. 8.
John l.. Lewis, acting international
president Of the United Mine Workers,
was unable to attend the meeting. being
engaged with the soft coal miners con-
troversy with operators at Buffalo,
w. w. Ingliss, vice-president and gen.
e,al manager of the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western Coal Company,
represented his company and acceded to
the agreement.
Continuation of the war time agree
ment was demanded at the recent ti-
district convention OF mine workers at
Wilkesbarre. The agreement as adopted
to-day reads:
Whereas. on May 5. 1915, an agree
ment was entered into by the parties
hereto covering wages and working con-
eitions in the anthracite field OF Penn
sylvania, for the four years period, be-
ginning April !. 1915. and ending March
81, 1920; and,
''whereas, by reason of conditions that
arose as a result OF the war the parties
hereto, under date of April rs, 1917, and
again under date OF November II, 1917.
entered into supplemental agreements
modifying the wage compensation pro-
yided in said agreement OF May 5, 1915;
and
Whereas by reason OF further
changes in conditions that arose subse-
uuent to the date OF said supplemental
agreement of November II, 1917, the
part es hereto did upon the fifteenth day
of November, 1918, enter into supple
mental agreement again modifying the
wage compensation provided In said
agreement Of May 5. 1916, In which shp-
Elemental agreement OF November Is.
1918, appears the following;
THE advances herein provided shall
become effective November I. 1918, and
shall remain in effect until the declara-
ton OF peace or until March 81, 1920. in
case peace is not declared before that
da te' and
Whereas. the anthracite mine work
ers organization has made request that
the advances provided In the supplement
tary agreement of November 10, 1918,
shall remain in effect until March 81,
1920;
Now. therefore. this agreement wit
nesseth:
That the advances provided in the
said supplementary agreement of No
vember Ia. 1918. shall remain In efect
until March 81, 1905 Il being under
stood and agreed that all OF the cove
nants and conditions of the agreement
Of May s. 1915, except as modified by
the supplementary agreement of NoVem'
Der is. 1918, are hereby specifically re-
affirmed and shall remain In full force
and effect until March 81. 1920"