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Show WILL END AT ONCE Mitchell Will Announce Settlement Set-tlement of Strike. CONVENTION WILL BE CALLED Terms Proposed Sure to Be Accepted by the Mine-Workers This Declaration Decla-ration Mndo by a Trusted Friend and Counsellor of Piesldent MitchellMen Mitch-ellMen Will Receive What They Have Asked for In the Matter ot Wages arc! Will Work More Days in a Year. Wllkesbarrc, Pa , Oct H. One of President Milchell s most trusted friends und counselors said tonight: "Ihe strike will end nt nine. The iiiiiinuiicemeut of the settlement will be made b) Mitchell tomoiiow. Convention Conven-tion nf the mine wnikers will be called to pass Um the terms nnd the) will be accepted " "Will the Miners' union be recognized tinder Ihe terms?" HUT ONi: I-OAU 10 snitvi: "I will not Kl) an) thing on that point, but when there ore two persons to be rerved and there is but one lo if with which tn serve them It would not be fair to run aw a) with tho whole loaf. "The men will receive what they have asked In the matter nf wages The) will get, also, a shorter working day, repiesentntlon at Ihe weighing scales and a guarantee that they will be nblo to work more ra) lu a )ear than they have been able lo work In the post. "These are the material things, tho things tint com cm their pockclbooks, for which they arc fighting, and It they get them could )ou, or would )on, ex-pect ex-pect them to nsk for more7 ' MUN ALL HI1ADY. President Mitchell snld tonight that assuming that the terms nre ncceptcd by the miners, the full force of 111.000 men will report for duty within twenty-four hours. Scvent)-llve thousand thou-sand tons ot coal can bo mined and icady for Milium nt lu fort) -right hours, nnd the nmount Increased tn nbout 100 000 or 1:3,000 tons a day nt the end of n week. It can be moved to New York nnd other central cities In thirty-six hours from the tlmo It Is brought from the mines. A fact that seems to Indicate preparation prepa-ration on the pnrt of coal companies to ship coal Is the arrival nt coal-shipping centers of an Inciensed number of gondola cars, such are used In iarr)lng coal. Hundreds of cars of this t)po have reached Wllkesbarre, Scranton, llnrleton, Tamaqua and other centers during the last few hours. |
