Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1886 — FORMED A COMPACT. [ARTICLE]

FORMED A COMPACT.

The Coal Operators and Miners of Five States Arrange a Price Scale. pColumbas (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 oiher methods for the settlement of difficulties. Both miners and operatives express the opinion th%t they have formed the groundwork for the amicable settlement of all future troubles which may arise, and they also hope, inasmuch as they Imve enlisted the more intelligent and liberal element of hofh classes, that the 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 priors will he subject to rfsusion; 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 ai the Pittsburgh convention, and adopted as follows: Pittsburgh, 70 cents per ton; Hocking Valley, GO cents; Indiana block, 80 cents; Indiana bituminous. No. 1. Go cents; Indiana bituminous, No. 2, 75 cents; Wilmington, 111., 95 cents; Streator, 80 cents; Grape Creek, 75 cents; Mount Olive, 56!] cents; Stauriton, 56A cents; Springfield, 62J cents; Des Moines, lowa, 90 cents; in West Virginia, the Kanawha distiict, 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.