Show lAY Sf jWll TODAY I Operators and Miners May Come Together S I IS S MUCH UNCERTAINTY DE ABMITT SIGITS TEE UJNiiO JSITY AGREEMEIlff Miners of the Peoria and Canton SubDistricts M eet and Decide to I Return to Work This Morning Threatened Miners Strike at Des Sloines Occurs Columbus 0 Sept 1PresIdent Ratchford of the United Mine Workers returned from St LOuis tOday and ear eral members of the national executive board are also here to attend the meeting meet-ing of the board which has been postponed post-poned to Thursday morning The board will consider a proposition from the Pittsburg operators for the miners in that district to return to work at 64 cents a ton pending arbitration arbi-tration of differences President Batch ford has not received the formal proposition prop-osition but it will probably be presented pre-sented to the executive board tomorrow tomor-row He has extended an invitation to the operators to have representatives present and explain their proposition fully None of the operators had arrived ar-rived during the evening and none of the resident Ohio operators had been advised of their intentions President Ratchfcrd refused to talc on the probable prob-able outcome of the national board I meeting until mON is known of the I proposition of the Pittsburg operators The miners officials are not disposed I to regard favorably any proposition for an agreement for the remainder of the present year only If any agreement I is made they desire that it shall be lar J the following year Coal Comes Down Cleveland 0 Sent 1The publication I publica-tion of the news regarding the negotiations negotia-tions which it is hoped will end the coal miners strike has affected the I coal market in thi5 tj city Purchasers are cautious and are buyrag only In small Quantities Nearly all the operators oper-ators are sanguine that the end of the I trouble is nar at hand but there are a few who expnes dCdbt on the subject All are awaiting the meeting of the miners committee at Columbus at I which the new proposition will be considered con-sidered An Error Corrected I Chicago Sept IVIctol L Berger of Milwaukee who was secretary of the committee which prepared the declaration declara-tion of the St Louis labor conference calls attention to an error in the resolutions reso-lutions as sent out He says that a demand de-mand was made for the public ownership owner-ship of minesand railroadSnot of railroads rail-roads and telegraphs the public ownership owner-ship of mines being considered by the conference as imuortant to the body politic as tile ownership of he railroads De Armitt Signs the Agreement Pittsburg Sept 1W H De Armitt j president of the New Y rk Cleveland I Gas Coal company this evening attached i at-tached the signature of the company j to the uniformity agreement Those j having in charge the securing of the i signatures now feel confident that the rest of the operators will fall in line rapid and that the uniformity plan will soon be an assured fact Strike at Des Moines Des Moines la Sept 1Tl1e threatened threat-ened miners strike in this district culminated cul-minated today and all miners except about 200 employed in Christy Flint Valley and Des MoInes Coal and Mining I lag companies mines went out following 1 follow-ing the lead of the Carbondale miners several days ago I Will Go Back to Work I Peoria Ills Sept IThe miners of the Peoria and Canton subdistricts met today at Mapleton In a delegate convention j con-vention and decided ts return to work I tomorrow morning at a scale of 60 cents for screened coal and 45 cents for mine I run This affects about 2000 men A Few Notes I Emmas and other women continue to do missionary work at Plum Creek Strikers marched yesterday without interference in-terference Miners at Armitt Cos shaft have quit work Misunderstanding in regard to screens the cause I Kansas Texas shaft No 2 at Pittsburg was closed yesterday on ac count of the refusal of the drivers to work longer for less than the contract price of 42 per day The miners at this shaft say they will stand by the drivers driv-ers The strike in Jellicp district is practically prac-tically at an end Miners were threatened threat-ened with eviction unless they returned to work The news that a settlement of the strike of the coal miners in the Pitts burg district is near at hand has thrown a damper upon the leaders in I West Virginia |