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Show COAL STRIKE SETTLED. The coul miners have accepted tha proposal of President Wilson mid will immediately return to work. They go back with tho fourteen per cent in-c. in-c. reuse, already prim ted and in effect-Tho effect-Tho new agreement, provides that, "im- mediately upon ;i jy.-ncral resumption of operations, which shall be in all dis- 1 ! rids, except as to wages, upon the ha sis which obtained on October Ml, 1010, the president will appoint a com-iniytjiou com-iniytjiou of tJirco persons, org of "whom diall be fi practical iniiner and one of whom shall bo a mineowner or operator op-erator in active business, which commission com-mission will consider further questions of waes and working eoudit ions as . well ns profits of operators and proper : prices for coal, readjusting both wages and prices if it, shall so decide, iiiclud ing differentials and internal conditions within and between districts. Its report will be made within sixty days if possible pos-sible and will bo accepted as the basis of a ii?. w wage agrccmeut, the effective ef-fective date and duration of which shall also, bo determined by thfl commission. commis-sion. ' ' An agreement of. a similar nature could have been reached in the first place and tho strike, which . has done such incalculablo harm to business ithd caused widespread suffering and inconvenience incon-venience thereby avoided. As the operators op-erators have approved the proposition nf tho president the crisis has been passed, but it; will be some time before normal conditions return and business is freed from restrictions. Now, that the matter has been ironed out, lot the production of coal proceed in tho great-: est possible haste and -without further interruption. j |