The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-08-16
COAL MINES TO
OPEN AT ONCE.
Operators and Union officials Issue
Orders Sending Men Back
to the Pits
MANY FIELDS ARE AFFECTED,
Plans for Extending the Break in
Strike Made by President
Harrington of Illinois

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sociated Press. Immediate resump-
tion of coal production in bituminous
mines scattered over seven States was
ordered tonight and in some places
the cutting Of coal will be "tared to-
morrow. Orders for miners to return
to work were sent by district unions
officials after operators had signed an
agreement renewing wage contracts
that were in force when the strike was
called.
The formal break in the strike
came at $40 p. M, when the scale
agreement was adopted by the un-
animous vote Of miners and opera
tors at their joint conference. The
general agreement then was signed
by T. X. Maher, Of Cleveland, an op-
orator, as chairman Of the conference
and William Green a miner, as it's sec
1etary. Supplemental agreement be-
tween operators and State union Off
cials were then executed, with the
union chiefs wiring local unions that
work might be renewed.
Mines to Open Today (,
President John l.. Lewis, OF the
miners, said that operators con-
trolling an annual output of ap-
proximately 60,0O0,00O tons had
signed the agreement, their mines,
he said, were in West Virginia,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michi-
gan, Oklahoma and Washington.
James Palsey, one of the big oper-
, ators signing the agreement, an
nounced that his mines in Charles
town, Paramount, Elm Grove, and
Morgantown, West Virginia, Valley
Camp and Monongahela City, Pa,
and Lafferty and Stuartsville, Ohio,
would be opened tomorrow.
Plans for extending the break
Of the strike also were laid by
the union men. Frank harrington,
the Illinois miners president, an
nounced that he would ask the Illi-
nois operators to meet the unions
district scale committee at Chi
cago on Friday.
John Hessler, head of the Indiana
miners also asked the Indiana oper-
ators to join in a scale conference
at Terre Haute on the same day.
Van A. Bittner, statistician for the
international union, announced that
operators from Kansas, Missouri,
Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas would
be asked to meet with the union at
Kansas City next Tuesday.
o Meeting Planned
Under the policy laid down by
the union, operators will be re-
quired to accept the interstate agree
dent, made at the general conference
here as the base for their contracts
with the union. This agreement pro-
vides for the reestablishment of the
wage contracts which includes the
"check oy" Of union dues, that were
in force last March 81, dith the new
contract to run until March 81, 1923.
Further the agreement provides for
creation of an advisory fact-fnding
commission, meeting being called of
all soft coal operators for next
October to effect the selection of
the commission.
Both the miners and the oper-
ators held separate meetings to
ratify the agreement before join
ing in. the afternoon conference
wheer unanimous approval was
voted, to be followed by the sign
ing of the document.
Expects New Agreements
"The interstate agreement exc
cuted with operators having a pro-
duction of 60,O0O,0O0 tons," said Mr..
Lewis, "Will become the basic
agreement for the bituminous in
dustry throughout the country, and
l anticipate that in a comparative
ly few days that supplemental con
tracts with groups of operators and
individual operating interests will
be executed with the majority of
the operators whose mines are now
on strike.
"The plan of settlement is based
OF broad constructive premise
which carries with it's subtantial
hope for material improvement
in the method of collective bar,
gaining in the industry and gives
assurance that constructive reforms
will be inaugurated, eliminating