Show OPERATORS HAVE HAYE HAYEA HAVEA A PROPOSITION 1 Plan of Arbitration Entirely Differ Different Different Different ent From Prom the One Presented by bythe bythe bythe the Miners FEELING IS MORE HOPEFUL SOME TIME REQUIRED FOR SET SETTLEMENT ENT New York April 9 OAt At the joint con forence of tho the subcommittees of the tho anthracite coal miners and their em employers employers employers to bo be held here hare tomorrow the operators will decline to accept arbi ration plans as presented last week by the Mine Workers and will in its stead present a if to by President Mitch Mitchell ell and his men will bind each side for more than two years The operators have boon been working on the new now plan ever since the adjournment of the cint conference of last Thursday and the ho inability of the presidents of the hard lard coal carrying railroads to com complete complete complete minor details caused a postpone postponement postponement ment of hours of the con faience tOt foi once ence scheduled for fOl today Plan a New One It is said that the offer to be made macic involves an arbitration plan very dif cut different different ferent from the one presented by the miners one that will call for the set settlement settlement of only now grievances that after an impartial investigation has been made may be found to exist The operators still sun maintain the position that the miners in their demands have not called attention to anything that has not already been passed paged upon by bythe bythe the Ithe anthracite coal strike commission There is a strong impression among the miners committee that the opera operators operators tors will propose that President Roose Roosevelt velt volt be requested to summon the strike commission to review the entire controversy They The decline however to indicate how they would receive the suggestion In I n Close Conference operators representatives vere were In n close conference most of the day and they promise that unless some something something something thing unforeseen should occur they will wUI be ready with their answer to the miners arbitration plan tomorrow President Mitchell announced this evening that the last of the bituminous bituminous bituminous coal operators in the district who had held out against the 1903 wage agreement signed the scale today This action he said clears up the western Pennsylvania territory and means that men In that ter territory territory territory who proe pro e from to tons of ot bit eft bL t coal a year will receive an increase of per cent In wages |