Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1886 — FORMED A COMPACT. [ARTICLE]

FORMED A COMPACT.

The Coal Operators anti Miners of Five States Arrange a Price Scale. [Columbus (Ohio) special.] The National Convention of Coal Miners and Operators, which concluded its business in this city this evening, is no doubt one of the most important in results obtained of any convention which has been held in the labor interest since the spirit of arbitration has taken the place of other methods for the settlement of difficulties. Both miners and operatives express the opinion that they have formed the groundwork for the amicable settlement of all future troubles which may arise, and they also hope, inasmuch as they have enlisted the more intelligent aud liberal element of both classes, that tho compact will get stronger with each year. In order that the results might not be temporary, the convention provided for another meeting at Columbus on the second Tuesday of February, . 1887, when the present scale of prices will be subject to revision. The scale was amended so as to cut out Staunton, Mount Olive, and Springfield, 111., on the ground that these sections were not represented and were not at the Pittsburgh convention, and adopted as follows: Pittsburgh, 70 cents per ton; Hocking Valley, 60 cents; Indiana block, 80 cents; Indiana bituminous. No. 1, 65 cents; Indiana bituminous, No. 2, 75 cents; Wilmington, 111., 95 cents; Streator, 80 cents; Grape Creek, 75 cents; Mount Olive, 56J cents; Staunton, 56J cents; Springfield, 621 cents; Des Moines, lowa, 90 cents; in West Virginia, the Kanawha district, reduced prices to be restored to 75 cents; Reynoldsville, Fairmount screen coal, 71 cents. A board of arbitration was elected, consisting of two miners and two operators from each of the five States represented in the scale, to which shall be referred all questions of a national character.