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Show II ILLINOIS COAL i PITS REOPENED Indiana Miners Also Back; Field Towns Bustle With Activity CHICAGO. Aug 23 Illinois coal mlnoa, idlo l-U days since tho strike of union minors began April 1. reopened today When shrieking whistles SJlOUnced the end of the strike In Illinois Tues- i day. towns In the coal fields bustled with activity as news of the settlement In Chicago, spread. Mules were cor-1 railed and hasty preparations were made to begin the hoisting of coal today. Men on the first shifts began digging dig-ging a few hours, after news of ths truce until next April, reached tho coal fields. VICTORY CLAIMED Settlement of the coal strike in Illinois Illi-nois was made un the basis of tho i leveland agreement, and miners haii-i ed the settlement m a slcmai of victory, vic-tory, Illinois operators admitted their I surrender under pressure from a puh-j lie dem.-md to end the strike. Illinois and Indiana miners In returning re-turning to tho pits today, followed the lead of union coal diggers in Michigan, Michi-gan, Iowa Wyoming, Montana and Other states, where similar agree- Imetttfl based on tho Cleveland terms , were made With Illinois and Indiana mlnerB l. In II.. nlt iml..n .,. .1. .At I mated thai the strike settlement covered cov-ered four-fifths of the unionized soft coal fields of the United StatOB. Illi nois alono produces 16 per pent of the nation's output of soft coal Dr. F. C llonnold. secretary of the Illinois Coal Operators' association predicted the fuel shortage in Illinois would be Wiped out w ithin two months after the end of the railroad strike. "FOUGHT FOR PUBLIC" Production of poft coal within two H ' weeks In sufficient quantities to sup port the needs of households rs was H forecast by operators following Tues days settlement Pt'nissln" the up.T-I up.T-I ators' surrender of their deisands for arbitration of disputes in the coal industry. in-dustry. W K. Kasanangh. president of Districts 5 and 0, said: "We are happy over the settlement, and we leave here conscious of the fat t that wo have made a fight, a fight for the public. although we lost. We made the fight in behalf of the pub- lie and we surrendered at the demand of the public But I hardly think the miners can afford to win another such fight as this." By tho truce until next April the miners mi-ners returned to work under the same working conditions and with th- same pay they received when they went on strike, April l this year. oo |