Norwich bulletin., 1922-08-16
.SOFI COAL STRIKE SETTLED;
 MINERS ORDERED ID WORK
Agreement Signed Renewing Wage Contracts in Force When the Men Quit the Mines March 31-Operators ControI.
 ing Annual Output of 6O,oOOOOO Tons Signed the Contract-Pans for Extending the Break of the Strike Have Been Made by the Union Men.

: Cleveland. Aug. IS (By the A. P).-l Immediate resumption of coal production in bituminous mines scattered over seven states was ordered tonight. and in some places the cutting; of coal will be- started tomorrow. Orders for miners to return Ito work, were sent by district union offi- cials, after operators had signed an agreement renewing the wage contracts that werein force when the men quit the mines last March 31.
 The formal break in the strike came at 3.10 D. m,, when the scale agreement was adopted by the unanimous vote of miners and operators at their joint con ference. The general agreement then was signed by T. K. Maher of Cleveland, an operator, as chairman of the confer ence, and William Green, a miner. as it's secretary. Supplemental agreements be- tween operators and state union officials were then executed. with the union chiefs wiring local unions that work might be resumed.
 President John L. Lewis of the miners said that operators controlling an annual output of approximately 60.000 900 tons had signed the agreement. Their mines, he said, were. in West Virginia, Pennsyi- vania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan. oklaho-
 ma and Washington. James Paisley. one
 of the big operators signing the agree
 ment. announced that his mines in | Char!estown, Fairmont, Elm Grove and
 Morgantown, w. Va, Valley Camp and
 Monongahela City. Pa, and Lafferty and l Stuartsville, O., would be opened tomor- | row.
 Plans for extending the break of the l 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 committee at Chicago on | Friday. John Hessler. head of the h. diana miners also asked the Indiana op-
 orators to join in a scale conference al l Terce 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.
 Under the policy laid down today by
 the union. operators will be required tC
 accept the interstate agreement made a
 the general conference hoce as the basi
 for their contracss with the union. Thi
 agreements provides for the re-establish rlent of the wage contracts which in cludes the "check-off' of union dues, tha | were in force last March 31. with the nes contract to run until March 3l. 192s
 Further, the agreement provides for ere ation of an advisory fact-fnding commis sion, a meeting being called of all sof coal operators for next October to effec the selection of the commission. } Both the miners and the operators hell separate meetings 10 ratify the agree , ment before joining in the afternoon con . ference, where unanimous approval wa voted. to be followed by the signing o
 the document.
 Mr. Lewis and other union officials wi remain here tomorrow to conclude con ference with operators but most of tn miners officials left tonight for thei homes to seek negotiations with the or