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Show COAL PRODUCTION ABOUT PARALYZED BY DIGGERS' STRIKE CHICAGO, Nov.. 7. As the first week of the soft coal strike ended tonight with production generally paralyzed in union mines, transportation affected and virtual wartime fuel regulations in force, both operators and miners awaited developments develop-ments in the government injunction proceedings. pro-ceedings. The seventh dav of the strike witnessed wit-nessed little change in the general situation. sit-uation. About 4ii5,00O union miners remained re-mained on strike, although coal operators of West Virginia, whore forty-four union mines were reported in operation yesterday, yester-day, and Colorado reoorted increased production. pro-duction. Miners' leaders denied the West Virginia operators' claims and said only l a few mines were working on the open shop basis. Nearly normal production 'prevailed in the nonunion fields of West Virginia and ivnnsvlvfliiia and in mines of Utah and in some parts of New Mexico, Mex-ico, as well as in western Kentucky, where the miners did not participate In the strike because of contracts. Two thousand lignite miners In North Dakota planned to strike In the morning. morn-ing. No further reduction in train service, as begun yesterday in the middle west under authorization of the railroad administration ad-ministration where necessary, took place todav, but in railroad circles It was considered con-sidered likely that further suspensions would be ordered next week unless there was a rift in the strike cloud. |