Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-02-17 | Page 3 | Coal Region is Bustling Anew

COAL OAl IS IS- BUSTliNG ANEW Miners P Prepare pa e for Return Return Return Re Re- turn r toll t i Pits Under Five Five- Five Year ea Pea Pe Peace ce Terms I S 'S SCRANTON nANT N Fa Pa Feb 17 AP Al' Anthracite production will bo be under under uner un un- un- un der er way tom tomorrow i After five lve months an and seventeen seventeen da days s 's of Idleness men and boys boys' boys boys' will wend their way way through gh sno valleys to the mines After the breal breakers ers quit for the day in many Inmany many sections coal trains will be on in n the way to the consumers At a a. miners miners' convention final ap approval was given last Friday by bythe bythe bythe the representatives of the oper operators tors and miners The agreement is Is s' s ex expected expected expected ex- ex to insure five years of of peace and prosperity in the anthracite fields The agreement will be signed by operators and union leaders here late today The convention discussed the provisions pro pro- provisions provisions pro pro- visions of the new contract for four for four hours hours' Not until the miners were fully assured that there is no compulsory compulsory compulsory sory arbitration in the new agreement agreement agreement agree agree- ment did the men from the pits cease questioning the union leaders At Shickshinny Pa nearly miners employed by the West Vest End Coal company who were preparIng preparing preparing ing the workings for the resumption resumption resumption tion of operations went on strike yesterday They objected to the company's demand that they eat eaton eaton eaton on their own time The company previously allowed an n hour for lunch For the first time in months traveling traveling trav trav- eling salesmen are busy in the anthracite anthracite an an- region Relief measures are being largely large large- ly discontinued but in some places relief societies will provide food for tor needy families till the first pay en envelopes envelopes envelopes en- en are distributed