Show PROPOSITIONS REJECTED W 8 THE COAL OPERATORS 1 Announce Their Decision In Reply to the Demands of the Miners and + Submit a Counter Proposition Now York The propositions of tho United Mine Workers of Amorlc ° for a readjustment of wages and cone dltlons In tho anthracite coal fields at a whole havo been denied by tho commute representing the anthracite anthra-cite operators As a counter proposition proposi-tion the operators suggest that the awards made by the anthracite coat strike commission tho principles upon which they are established by tho commission and thc methods cstnb hashed for carrying out their findings and awards shall be continued for a further terra of three years from the Drat day of April 1906 The present agreement terminates March 31 of this year The demand of the miners that the operators enter Into an agreement with the union is declined on thu ground that tho anthracite operators stand unalterably for the open shop and again decline to make an agreement agree-ment with tho United Mine Workers of America an organization controlled by a rival Industry t |