Show NOT ALL ARE IDLE Some of the Soft Coal Miners Secure the Scale PlttBburg With the exception of one or two points outside of tho Pitts burg district tho strained situation between be-tween operators and miners In the soft coal fields of western Pennsylvania is hourly growing more pacific Following Follow-ing the signing of tho scale demanded by the miners tho mines of the operators oper-ators who signed tho scale resumed their operations although In many instances in-stances with reduced forces In the Pitts burg district there were 18000 miners working and 1200 were IdleTho Tho Independent operators met on Tuesday and decided not to sign the scale and not to work their mines nonunion The independent operators operat-ors employ between 12000 and 14000 men and they are all Idle |