The Archive · 1927

SETTLEMENT OF U.S

COAL DISPUTE

The six months coal-mining in Illinois, which put 70,000 persons out of work, has] been settled.

Both sides accepted the proposal of the Joint Committee that work be resumed forthwith on a scale of wages that the mine-owners previously had declared to be impossible. This scale will remain in force until the matter is adjusted by a commission of four. who are to report by October, 195 It Is believed that other States in the central mining-field will arrange settlement on similar lincs—

Reuter.

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