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Show TALK Of SCTTLMEMT ; SETS IN STRONGLY 8CRANTON, Pa., May l-There Is every prospect that a strike of coal . miners may be averted. The afternoon session of the convention lasted an hour and It was announced It had been decided to I vote to refer the question of a strike or the acceptance of the operators' proposals for a continuance under the present scale back to the scale committee. With the thirty-six members of this ccmmlttee now rests the welfare of the 180.000 mine-workers. 1 . - - There is reason to believe that a peaceful peace-ful settlement will be made and that the men who have been idle since April 1, will be soon ordered back to the mines. |