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Show END WRITTEN TO ONE OF COUNTRY'S GREAT STRUGGLES INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. 10. The decision of the general committee of the United Mine Workers of America, consisting of international and district officials and members of the scale committee and executive board to accept President Wilson's Wil-son's proposal, marks the end of one of the greatest industrial battles in the history of union labor in Am eric er-ic t. It reached far beyond tiie confines con-fines of the coal mining industry, and practically paralyzed business manufacturing manufac-turing and transport, not to mention the intense suffering caused in many localities locali-ties by the shutting off of fuel to domestic do-mestic consumers in the dead of winter. On September 2'-i last, the convention of the United Mine "Workers, meeting at Cleveland, Ohio, adopted a resolution demanding de-manding an increase of 60 per cent in wanes, a six -hour day and a five-day week, and authorizing the international officials to call a strike of all bituminous miners in the United States, effective November 1, in the event a satisfactory wace agreement had not been negotiated by that date. Two sessions of tho joint committee of miners and operators of the central cojlii- |