Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-13
FIRST MINE OPENS
TODAY AS WORKERS
RUSH BACK TO Jobs
Agreement May Be Ratified
Tuesday-Digging Will
Start Shortly After.
COAL FIELDS REJOICING:
HARD TIMES ARE OVER
Grant, Who Engineered Peace,
Gives Coolidge Credit for
Settlement.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, February ID
Anthracite will be moving to market
Wednesday or Thursday OF next
week as a result of the strike settle
meut.
1t will move slowly at first ana
will be spread very thinly in order
10 cover as many urgent demands
as. possible. The peak probably VIII
10 reached before the end OF the
month. a.,
The day the miners will be permitted
IN produce coal depends upon When
The union ratifies the agreement
reached here yesterday. The trl-
district convention will meet Tuesday
morning in Scranton TO ratlfy the
pact. Whether it will take one or
two days TO do this depends upon tue tue
delediteS themselves. The men VIII
return to work the morning after the
ratification
The mines generally are in good
condition, due to the 5000 main
tenance men who were permitted TO
remain at work. The United Mine
Workers are permitting aGdltlonal
men to go into the underground work
ings to clean up. free the mines OF
gas and do necessary timber work 10
make things safe.
One Mine starts Ioday.
The Scotch Valley mine of the
Beaver Valley Coal Co. probably VIII
be the first colliery to resume actual
production. This mine, located in
Beaver township, Columbia County, IS
starting operations with its fun force
of $50 men today. Officials OF the COM
pany announced that they had per-
mission from the miners union to do
so Repairs were made last week.
There was a frenzy of delight
throughout the anthracite region TO-
day, the only discordant notes beng
the brays of mine mules being loaded
into box cars for shipment to mines
and an indefinite stay underground
after a vacation in sunshine.
Every city and tiny coal patch
Joined in the celebration, at which
church bells We're rung, fmpromptu
parades were started and men and
women danced in the snow in Joy that
the days of soup kitchens had ended.
Business Nearly Paralyzed.
The suspension all but paralyzed
business in many localities. Conser-
yative estimates OF the strikes cost,
including the loss of production and
miners wages, reach 1924 900 900. Not
q life was lost through violence nor
., person seriously injured in the
strike.
Peace came on the forty-sixth birth
day of John L. Lewis, president of
the United Mine Workers. Maj. w.
w. Inglis. chairman of the operators
negotiating committee, sent nm
basket OF American beauty roses, with
a note saying it was the birthday Of
the miners leader and another great
American, Abraham Lincoln
Mayor Hart of Wilkes Barre cele-
brated the strike settlement by re
mitting the fines and sentences Of all
city prisoners held at the police sta
ZION and county Jail who are mine
workers and convicted OF minor
offenses. He said most OF them were
victims of bad liquor.
Grant Remains in Background.
The man who set the machinery in
motion TO bring about the settlement,
r. F.. Grant of Cleveland. vice prest-
dent of the NJ. A. Hanna Coal Co.,
soft coal operators, and president of
the Susuuehanna Collieries Co, an
anthracite subsidiary, remained in the
background today. Informed of the
high praise heaped upon him by both
parties, he lauded President Coolidge
for his great common sense and
wisdom in not intervening in the dis
pute. If the President had yielded to
pressure, he said, the strike would
not have been settled
The miners go back to work under
f1ve-year contract at the old wage
scale Optional arbitration is pro
yided. The union leaders claim this
is victory. They have opposed COM
pulsory arbitration.
The miners also claim a victory in
their demands for deducting union
dues from wages. While the word
check off" is not in the agreement, it
is covered by the phrase providing for
"a reciprocal program Of cooperation
and efficiency"
Expect Stocks. Shortly.
NEW YORK, February 13 iP).--
Representative coal dealers of this
city expect to have a stock of domes-
tic anthracite coal on hand within
three to four weeks after work is
resumed at the mines. Price reduc
lions on soft coal and substitutes are
also expected within this period.
While the present price of foreign
anthracite is $3.50 per ton. the first
American anthracite to be received
will sell at about $15 per ton. deal
ers believe.
Won't Affect Bituminous Field.
PITTSBURGH. Pa, February IS
GP).-Settlenent of the hard coal tie
mp will have little or no effect upon
the bituminous coal industry of the
Pittsburgh region. because only a
small amount of soft coal mined in
this district has been sent East to
replace anthracite. leading operators
said last night. Coke producers. how
ever expected that the settlement
would have some effect upon their
product.
700 Ohio Miners Strike.
RELLAIRE, Ohio. February Is L4o).
Seven hundred miners employed at
the Powhatan Mining Co.'S mine one
of the largest in the State went ON