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Show WYOMING COAL STRIKE SETTLED Operators Sign Agreement Under Protest, Ogden Offices Hear The coal strike in the Wyoming fields was settled last night at Cheyenne, Chey-enne, Wyo , when the operators signed sign-ed the agrcoment submitted by the miners but signed It under protest, according ac-cording to advices that reached the offices of the. Superior Rock Springs i Coal company, tho Premier Coal company com-pany and tho Lion Coal company last night and early this morning. It is understood that the miners are to return re-turn to work today. Local officials I of the coal companies In those fields Isold this morning however, thai It will be from two weeks to one month before the mines an. working 'tt capacity ca-pacity due to the difficulty in re rutting rutt-ing an efficient force of miners. OPERATORS' OTATBMKNT. P J. Quealy, spokesman of the op- nrnlnro i.wwl.j I Ku nllAUlnr- a f .. I . i i . r I last night at Cheyenne at the conclu-sion conclu-sion of the conferjiu "The Wyoming operators have signed ihf- Cleveland agreement under protest. Their acceptance of 1 resident resi-dent Harding s proposition committed th.-m to the 1922 wage scale and conditions con-ditions r( the 1'922 agreement but carried with it arbitration of future wage scales which the Cleveland agreement does not. but It does not offer an advisory board of operators, find miners whose sole authority is to make recommendations "Acceptance of th" ( leveland agreement agree-ment means war time prices on coal for all consumers, and it is only public pub-lic necessity and railroad and utility requirements that force Wyoming OP erators temporarily to yield without i the president's plan ror arbitration." OGDEN MEN FRES1 N I The agreement was signed between the operators in the southern and northern fields of Wyoming and the I nlt.-d Mine Workers of America, dls- I ployed by the Superior Hnr!; Springs I company; 125 men at the Premier Coal company's mines and 260 at tho Lion Coal company's mines were effected ef-fected by tho strike which was cal ed March 31. H. C Marrhant of the Superior Rock Springe company cj. Rice general gen-eral superintendent of the Premier Coal company, and P. H. Burnell, general superintendent of the Lion 1 Coal company, attended the confer- ence for their respective companies with headquarters in ogden HACK TO WORK. CHEYENNE, Wyo.. Aug. 22 Wyoming Wy-oming operators and mine union officials. of-ficials. last evening came to an agreement agree-ment for the settlement of the coal strike in this state The employers the miners return to their work under un-der the 1921 wage scale The check-off check-off system is to be retained. The adoption of the agreement means that the men will be called back to work by the operators today. |