Show STRIKE R ORDER III FBI FORCE Complete Suspension of Min ing Operations in the Pennsylvania Region About 143000 Men Are Idle as Result of Walkout While at Least 17000 Remain at Work to Prevent the Mines From Flooding PhlladelphlaThere There was a complete com-plete suspension of mining operations In the anthracite region Monday In accordance with the order Issued last week by President Mitchell of tho Mine Workers of America and the scale committee of that organization with tho solitary exception of the oxford Ox-ford colliery a small Independent operation op-eration near Scranton which employs about 500 hands with a dally capacity of about 1200 tons This mine was kept In operation during the strike In 1902 Every other colliery was opened as usual and In readiness for the workers but there was no response to the blowing of the whistles other than the appearance of the engineers firemen pumpmen and others whose presence at tho mines Is necessary to preserve them from Injury and who were exempted In President Mitchells order There are 400 collieries In tho anthracite an-thracite region employing 160000 men and boys Miners officials estimated that 143000 mine workers obeyed the order to suspend operations This leaves 17000 men who are permitted to continue at work to prevent the inlncs from flooding |