Show MINE OWNERS ARE RE I WILLING TO SETTLE REITERATE WILLINGNESS T TO AGREE TO TERMS BY GOVERNOR OF COLORADO Point of Recognition of Union Would be Waived but Miners Would be Permitted to Maintain Their Organization In ln a 3 telegram addressed to Martin D D. Foster chairman of the house committee on mines and mining the presidents of or twenty-one twenty Colorado coal companies on May day 1 I reiterated reiterate their willingness to agree to a settlement settle setUp ment meat of the coal strike upon the term suggested bv by Governor Ammons In a letter of or November 27 21 t I 1913 which was laid before representatives of the operators and miners at a a. conference upon that date Governor Ammons In the the letter urged that the point of or recognition of the union be waived but that the miners min miners ers be permitted to maintain their or or- He urged further that the operators guarantee the employment of a check abolish the scrIp serin system observe the regula regula- of the eight hour law uw permit to trade where they chooser choose I Insure observance of or the semi month semimonthly ly Iy pay day observe to the letter all the provisions lons of the coal mine Inspection tion law and employ again alL aiL strikers whose places had not been filled and who had not been guilty of law violation violation viola viola- tion during the strike The telegram Includes the letter of ot Governor Ammons and says The strikers refused to accept the I terms of settlement proposed by the I governor and approved by the operators operators oper oper- and all the disorder and bloodshed bloodshed blood blood- I shed In this state since November 11 27 7 has been due to this attitude of ot the 1 officers and members of at the United Mine Workers of America We still consider the plan of or the governor I legally and Industrially sound and have never retracted our former approval I thereof |