The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-16

The formal break fin the strike came at 3i10 D. m.. when the seafe
 agreement was adopted by the unanimous vote of miners nnd
 operators at their joint confer ence. The general agreement then
 was signed by T. K. Maher of
 Cleveland, an operator, as chair
 man 0 the conference. and Will
 liam Green. miner, as It's sec retary. Supplemental agree snents between operators and state union officials were then executed with the union chiefs
 wiring iocni unions that work
 might be renewed. A.
 President John l.. Lewis miners said that operators ing an annual output of appre ly 6o.ooo,oo0 tons mad sigr agreement. Their mines. he saio, in West Virginia, Ohio. Int Pennsylvania, Michigan, Okiah and Washington. James Paisley. of the big operators signing ti agreement. announced that his mines in West Virginia and ohio would be opened tomorrow.
 Will Extend Break
 Plans for extending the break of the strike also were laid by the union men. Frank Harrington. the Illinois miners president. announced that he would ask the Illinois operators to meet the unions district scale com mittee at Chicago on Friday John Heisler, head of the indiana miners, also asked the Indiana operators to join in scale conference at Terre Haute on the same day. Van A. Bitt- ner. statistician for the international union, announced that operators of the Arkansas, Texas, Kansas, Mis- souri and Oklahoma district would be asked to meet with the union at Kansas City next Tuesday.
 Under the policy laid down to- day by the union, operators will
 he required so nceept the inter-
 state agreement made at the
 general conference here, as the
 base for their contracts with the
 union. This agreement provides for the re-esfnbIfshment of the wage contracts which includes the "check offv of union dues that
 were i'm force last March 3f, with the new contract to run until
 March sf, 1923. Further. the
 agreement provides, for creation
 of mn advisory fnct finding com-
 mission. n meeting being called of nll soft conI operators for next
 October to effect the selection of
 the commission.
 The text of the agreement foilows: '1. All mines of operators repre- sented In this joint conference which are now on strike, are to be- opened immediately and the execution of supplementary contracts extending 10 March 31, 1923. the terms. provisions and conditions of the contracts af- fecting such mines as they respee- lively existed on March 3t, 1922. ex- cept as to renewal or continuation clauses in such contracts.
 To Hold Joint Conference
 "2. The participants in this con- ference agree to send and this con- ference invites the bituminous coal operators of the United States to send representative delegates from coal producing districts, or from sub- stantial groups of operators, which delegates shall as far as possible be representatives of the bituminous coal industry of the United States. such delegates to assemble In joint conference In Cleveland. O., October 2, 1922.
 This Joint conference shall ap- point committee of equal numbers of representative operators ard miners, which committee will formn- late a method to be followed by the bituminous coal industry in the me- gotiation of wage scale agreements to become effective April 1. 1923. and the method so formulated shall by the committee be reported to the joint conference to be held January 8. 1923. as after provided.
 Select Committee
 '3 The joint conference oon- vening October 2 shall further select further committee of inquiry. the members of which shall be of com manding public reputation for ability and character and whose personnel shall be approved by the President of the United States. The duty of this committee shall be to develop promptly all of the pertinent facts in regard to the industry for the bene- fit of the public, the operators and mine workers. Such investigation shall include every phase of the tn- dustry deemed material by the com mittee of inquiry and such com mittee shall be furnished with all in-
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