Show I SETTLEMENT is NEAR Call for Miners Convention to ConsiderS Consider-S Operators Offer of Increase in A t S Wages is Issued SIt I i It Will Convene in Scranton onrpriday and it is Expected that the Strikers Will Almo5trUnanimously i Accept the AdvanceQuiet ness Prevails Throughout Anthracite Region he Call Generally I I Gen-erally Accepted as Signal for Cessation of Hostilities I Philadelphia Pa Oct President Mitchell issued his call today for the muchlalkcdof miners convention to consider the operators olfer of a 10 per cent Increase in wages The convention con-vention will be held In Scranton and will open on Friday + nightv JeJ > jjgJ wit In the convention will be on i the basis of one delegate with C vote for I each 100 persons on strike I Is believed the convention will not be n long one and It Is expected that the strikers will almost unanimously accept the advance In wages There Is however a possibility that by thIn th-In of a proposition to abolish the sliding scale and another to have the operators agree to a yearly wage contract the termination of the strike may be somewhat delayed The test I of the call Is as follows I TEXT OF THE CALL Temporary ITcadquartors United MineWorkers I Mine-Workers Uazlcton Pa Oct STo all miners and mlno employees of tho an thraclto region I Brothers In vlow of tho fact that tho mlreoporators have posted notices oforI 1ns an advance In wages formerly paid I and believing It to bo our plain duty to consult your wishes as to our future action comllt tion wo deem It advisable to ask you lo I i select delegates to represent you In con vn tlon You aro therefore notlllcd that a convention con-vention will bo held at Scranton lju beginning be-ginning Friday October 2th at 10 a mho m-ho basli ot representation will be ono voto for each ItO persons on strike or If I desired ono delegate may represent a many ns 600 mlnewoikers but no delegate dele-gate will bo allowed to cast more than live voles Each delegate should havo credentials signed by the chairman and secretary of the meoting at which ho Is 1 elected and whenever possible credentials should bear tho seal of tho local union I IOHN nlCHELIJ President United MineWorkers of Amcr lfJl President T D NICHOLS District No 1 I THOMAS DUFFY President District No 7 JOHN FA1JEY 5 President District No 9 QUIET IN COAL REGION 5 QUIE Ouletness prevailed throughout the anthracite region today the call for tho convention being generally accepted ac-cepted as a signal of cessation of hostilities hos-tilities all around There were many expressions of satisfaction by miners and operators and by merchants and others in the mining section today over otherI the prospect t1C of an early settlement of tho troubles MASS MEETINGS ARRANGED Today completed tho third week since the strike went officially Into effect ef-fect The miners will have paradis and mass meetings at Shamokln tomorrow and at Scranton on Wednesday President Presi-dent Mitchell will be in attendance and Is expected to speak at both places S quiring different systems of working and different methods of employment Tho only method by which rails factory explanations can bo made is for the operators to meet the miners when a convention Is held consider the offer vof the operators |