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Show I PITTSBURG COAL I STRIKEENDED Vivid Change Made in Mining Towns As Peace Settles PITTSBURG, Auk 81. By Tho Associated Press.) Tho hUumlno'u coal strike in tho Pittsburg district became be-came history Wednesday. Vivid was I tho change In a chain of Important mining villages through which two Associated Pres.i correspondents motored. mo-tored. Work after week since last April thoup towns have boon grim and client Wednesday. pcuco spread Ihrough the hills rind valleys. Shotguns Shot-guns and rifles, automatics and cartridge cart-ridge belts disappeared. The trudging miner. In working garb, became the principal actor. It was Impossible for the correspondents corres-pondents to decide who wu the happier hap-pier coal diRpor or his children. But It wns noticeable that their bubbling enthusiasm was shared by merchants throughout the area that was toured. Snttlemont of the strike was vital, for v them Four men, seated around a table in the office of the l'lttsburg Coal com-; com-; 1 any. slgnd the agreement which terminated the bituminous struggle, f M Armstrong, genetnl manager, and .1 A Donaldson, vice president, represented repre-sented the operators. William (largest und P. T Pagan were the officials of tho United Mine Workers Two disputed points were compromise! com-promise! The demand of thy mine workers that non-union men employed at the company's mines be discharged s as accepted It was understood, however, that some of those workers will bo unionized. The company, in signing the Cleveland agreement had the phrase reading Approves and accepts, ac-cepts, " changed to read, accepts." ' We congratulate you mine workers or your complete victory," said Donaldson, Don-aldson, after the signing. oo |