Show OPERATORS IN CONFERENCE I Informal Meeting to Consider Report of Negotiations to End Strike scranton Pa Sept 27Al an Informal In-formal conference of the local operators tonight the report of the negotiations for settling the strike was discussed and the consensus of opinion was that the Influence reported to be st work to effect a settlement are of political hue and that these Interests cannOt advance any argument that will cause the operators to turn from the course they have mapped out namely Fight Ing to a finish the threatened Invasion of the anthracite region by the United MineWorkers organization The general opinion here Is that the Influences referred to arc of such a powerful nature that the operators cannot can-not well stand out against them and It Is believed that the strike will be set tled The means of settlement it Is said will be as follows The big carrying companies will grant a slight Deduction In tolls the operators will raise the price of coal and the wages of tho miners will Increased according to the percentage that tho reduction In tolls and increasein gelling price will permit the figuring to be ddne with the existing scale of wages aa the basis It Avlll be exacted that the MineWorkers union shall not fig ure in the negotiations and that the I men shall return to work without any I ceremony further than a guarantee I ferred the advance In wages that will be pre I |