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Show MINE OWNERS ARE WILLINGTOSETTLE REITERATE WILLINGNESS TO AGREE TO TERMS PROPOSED BY GOVERNOR OF COLORADO. Point of Recognition of Union Would be Waived, but Miners Would bo Permitted to Maintain Their Organization. Denver. la a telegram addressed to Martin D. Foster, chairman, of the house committee on mines and mining, the presidents of tweuty-one Colorado coal companies, on May I, reiterateol their willingness to agree to a settlement settle-ment of the coal strike upon the term suggested hy Governor Ammons in a letter of November 27, 1913, which ' was laid before representatives of the operators and miners at a conference upon that date. Governor Ammons, in the letter, urged that the point of recognition of the union be waived, but that the miners min-ers be permitted to maintain their organization. or-ganization. He urged further that the ' operators guarantee the employment of a check weighman; abolish the "scrip system;" observe the regulations regula-tions of the eight-hour law; permit employes to trade where they choose; insure observance of the semi-monthly pay day; observe to the letter all the provisions of the coal mine inspec-, inspec-, tion law and employ again all strikers whose places had not been filled and who had not been guilty of law violation viola-tion during the strike. The telegram includes the letter ot Governor Ammons, and says: "The strikers refused to accept the terms of settlement proposed by the governor and approved by the oper-ators oper-ators and all the disorder and bloodshed blood-shed in this state since November 27 has been due to this attitude of the officers and members of the United Mine Workers of America. "We still consider the plan of the governor legally and industrially sound and have never retracted our former approval thereof." |