Show operators and miners will be at peace for a term of three years miners and operators of eastern pennsylvania reach an agreement and the men will return to work at once new york after carrying on negotiations tiati ons for nearly three months the sub committee representing the an th mine workers and the oper acors of eastern pennsylvania have agreed to continue the award of the strike commission for another three years or until march 31 1909 and the men will return to work as soon as practicable probably monday all miners who have not committed violence against persons or property will be re employed and no one will be discriminated against because ol 01 any action he may have taken in the strike movement this outcome of the dispute which threatened to develop into a long bit ter struggle and paralyze a great in austry was looked upon with satis fac alon by the coal road operators as the agreement entered into is their first proposition made early in march in reply to the mine workers original demands the miners had little to say regard ing the agreement except that it was the best they could get they pointed out however that the agreement en into is the first general agreement that has ever been signed be tween the operators and the miners and they look upon it as a step tor ward in their efforts to have regular agreements with their employers |