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Show j oo iini n or G i H Negotiations Looking to That End in the Anthracite Field New York, May 2. Negotiations looking to a settlement In the anthra-cltp anthra-cltp labor questions that have caused a suspension of work in that Industry for several weeks may be satisfactorily satisfactori-ly concluded this aftornoon when tho full committees of the coal operators and the United Mine Workers meet I to consider the agreement that has ' been reached botweon the sub-corn- j mitteo appointed by both sides. That this agreement will be formally rati- j fied with possibly one or two changos j was generally believed today. ' The agreement provides for a 10 ' per cent increase in wages and an In- 1 direct recognition of the union, to-gethor to-gethor with other changes that have , been found to bo acceptable to both sides with respoct to working conditions condi-tions at tho mines While the agreement Is said to provide pro-vide a certain definite period of time from which It Is to run, it was suggested sug-gested earlier In the day that there i might bo flomo difference of opinion J on this quostlon when It came before i the full committee John P. White, president of the United Mine Workers of America was not hero to tako place In tho final negotiations. Illness kept him in Iowa. |