OCR Text |
Show riir;cns coiiPiioniSE V POS SJIItE OF PEACE .... . 1 .", . A . ' ( . NEW YORK. May aAfter carrying- on negotiations for pearly three months, the sub-committee representing the anthracite anthra-cite mine-workers and -operators of eastern east-ern Pennsylvania yesterday agreed to continue con-tinue the award ot the atrlka commission , for another three years, or ' until March II. 1909, and the men -will return to work-as work-as soon as practicable, probably Monday. . All miners who have not committed violence against persona or property will be re-employed, and no wlll.be discriminated discrimi-nated against because . of any action - ha may have taken in thetatrike movement. The agreement la subject to the ratification ratifica-tion of the tri-dlatrlct convention of mine-workers at Bcranton tomorrow, but there Is not the slightest doubt that the delegate will approve the action of their representatives. This outcome of ' the dispute, - which threatened to develop into a long and bitter bit-ter struggle and paralyse a' great Industry, Indus-try, was looked upon with satisfaction by the coal " road operators, as the agreement agree-ment entered Into is their first proposition, proposi-tion, made early In March in reply to the mine-workers' -original .demands. . |