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Show MINERS OFFERED INCREASED WAGES. Opera tart Offer Increase of 10 Per Cent to Step PennsylvanlaftStrike. An offer of an increase of 10 per cent in miners' wages has been made by the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron company, and this move, it is stated, will be followed by similar notices at every colliery in the anthracite anthra-cite region. It is expected by the operators that this increase in wages will be satisfactory satisfac-tory to the men, and they believe many strikers will take advantage of the offer and return to work. Mining operations op-erations will in this event be given an impetus, and the operators expect there will then be a gradual resumption resump-tion until the collieries will again have their full complement of employees. The Philadelphia & Reading company com-pany operates thirty-nine collieries, and of these, twenty-seven have been shut down owing to insufficient work- I ing force. |