Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 296, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1919 — HERE ARE WILSON’S TERMS FOR STRIKE SETTLEMENT. [ARTICLE]

HERE ARE WILSON’S TERMS FOR STRIKE SETTLEMENT.

Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 9. —The president’s proposal for settlement of the coal strike, which w&i told exclusively in Monday’s Herald and Examiner, was announced officially today as follows: 1. Immediate retura- te warkwith 14 per cent increase in wages. 2. No change in working conditions as they existed at the time the strike was called. (The forty-eight hour week.) 3. A complete investigation by a commission of three men into the entire coal situation, and their de-: cision as to the Tinal award, price'* of coal, profits of operators and other minor matters to govern the coal industry in the future. I 4. Any retroaction in the time j.the new wage scale—|f above 14 per cent—to be left tq the commission. 5. The miners to have one representative on the commission, the operators one, and the third nym to be selected by the president. 6. No increase in the present price of fuel. The proposal outlines a sixty-day investigation, at' the end of which the commission is to report. Asked if their findings would supersede rulings of the present fuel administration, Attorney o General Palmer said the commission’s word would be final. ' f' j Mr. and Mrs, C. P. ! Roy Hermansen and Mra : xeppe , Hanson, of Gillam township, were in Rensselaer. C. P. Hermansen, who was in the hospita »»»“ . the summer, is getting along fairly well, but feels a little discouraged because he is not able to be at work again.