Show STRICT SECRECY J IJ I IS MAINTAINED i I Scale Committee of Hard Coal I Miners Discusses Coun Counter Counter Counter ter Proposition I OFFER MAY BE ACCEPTED REPLY WILL BE FORMALLY S TODAY I New York April 11 After Afler having the counter arbitration on plan of the an anthracite anthracite operators under consideration nearly all day da the general scale com corn committee committee of the hard coal miners com eom completed DIeted the draft of their reply re iy and will present it to the committee e ot of mine owners at the Joint session to be held hel here tomorrow The strictest secrecy e recy surrounded I the work of or the commit committeemen committeemen commItteemen It Is believed the miners have haye decided to accept the operators offer that the anthracite strike commission take up the dispute but will ask that the tribunal be he permitted to consider ConsI eT the original demands with certain im let important iI 1 modifications Concessions Decided Upon The concessions said to have ha ve been be n decided upon are that instead of an agreement being entered into inlo between the operators and the United Mine MineWorkers MineWorkers Workers of ot America it be made with the anthracite mine workers that the I checkoff limited to the wage workers who agree to an assessment t t defray the expenses Incurred in carrying out ut the miner part Dart of the agreement agree nent in instead instead instead stead of all aU mine workers union and nonunion being to contri contribute contribute bute and that the duration of the thc agreement be left to the t The miners on their arbitration Uon plan Illan I asked for a agreement and the operators in their counter r rOpo proposition I wanted one for three thee th fe years ears Scope of Commissions Work If this proposition it hi i submitted by bythe D bythe the miners and accepted accept d it would leave the commission free to take up the d de demands do mands for an increase e in ae an day uniform nur for all aU classes of employment paid ly ty the day clay or month reconstruction of the r con conciliation dIlation board and a number of minor grievances The operators rs want to tin lin linit Unit it the inquiry to wages wa and a method for the adjustment of nf complaints |