Show STRIKE ORDER IN FULL FORCE Complete Suspension of Mining Op Operations operations Operations in iii the th Pennsylvania Anthracite Region NO SIGNS OF BITTERNESS TRUCE MAY BE PATCHED UP IN NEW YORK Philadelphia April 2 There was a complete suspension of mining opera operations operations operations In the anthracite region today In accordance with the order Issued last week by President Mitchell of the Mine MineWorkers Yorkers Workers of America and the scale committee of that organization with the solitary exception of the Oxford colliery a small Independent operation near Scranton which employs about hands with a dally daily capacity of about 1200 tons tona This was kept in operation during the strike In 1902 Every colliery was opened as usual and andIn andin andin In readiness for the workers but there was no response to the blowing of the whistles other than the appearance of the engineers firemen and others whose presence at the mines is necessary to preserve them from in inJury injury Jury jur and ond who were ere exempted in Fresh President President dent Mitchells order No Bitterness Apparent The action of or the miners occasioned no surprise on the part of the opera operators operators tors torn who while Awhile they offered work and arid protection to any who might desire i ito to go into the mines did not anticipate the acceptance of their offer The best of feeling between operators and min miners miners mm ers s reported from all aU sections and the hope that a satisfactory agreement may be reached at the conference in New ew York tomorrow is expressed on both sides Significance is attached by the miners to the fact that there is no apparent attempt on the part of or the operators to import nonunion labor which they regard as a favorable sign The miners leaders are careful to as assert assert assert sert that no strike has been declared the suspension they claim being beng mere merely merely ly lr a business necessity r as the miners miner have no agreement with the operators until the scale scalo is adjusted by the com coin committee Pickets Not Needed During the day in several of the dis districts districts groups of o men picketed the ap approaches approaches i to the collieries but their presence was unnecessary In the vi vicinity vicinity vicinity of or Scranton most of the washer ies were operated today and It Is said that they the will be worked In various sections The produce only steam sizes from front coal already run through the breaker and screened and ant it Is not likely that there will ill be any opposition from the miners to the op operation operation operation of these as IS their production is in considered by them in insignificant significant fi ant There are collieries In the an anthracite region r glon gion employing men and boys officials tonight os us that mine workers obeyed ob ed the order or er to suspend opera operations tiers This leaves l men ien who are permitted to continue at work to pre ure prevent prevent vent the mines from flooding The only disturbance dl that marked marled the th closing of the he mines today occur occurred occurred occurred red at a small town near Scranton where John S Shepperd a civil engineer engine r at it the Consolidated col colliery collier colliery liery lier of of the Pennsylvania Penn Coal com corn company company pany was shot In n the hip by Anthony a mine worker had hadan hadan hadan an argument with lith a mine guard suard dur during durIng Ur ing which he shot at the latter atter The bullet went ent wide and struck Shepperd who was standing near bv by b |