For the third time since the calling of the miners' strike on Sept. 1, negotiations for a new wage contract in the anthracite industry failed. There was only one meeting last week and then an adjournment. The operators made two final proposals:
1) For a conciliation board of three miners and three operators to write an agreement, and if that board deadlocks to have Charles Evans Hughes (formerly a lawyer of the miners) make a finding binding on both sides.
2) For resumption of work at the old wages...
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