| Show WORK ORK RESUMED IN COAL OAl FIELDS Army Anny of Toilers Return to toI toMines I Mines WHISTLES BLOW CAGES LOWER MEN Year Five Contract Formally Formally Formally For For- mally Is Signed SCRANTON Pa Feb 18 AP AP AP- Mining was resumed in the anthracIte anthracite anthracite cite region region toda today when the the vast army of underground toners toilers re returned returned re- re turned to their Jobs after being Idle more mOle than five months because of the shrike Thousands of workers thronged around the shafts of the different coal companies everywhere ver where in the hard coal fields at 6 a a. a m m. at which hour the cages began lowering their loads of human freight to the bowels of the earth and began the actual production of ot anthracite the first since the strike went Into etl ef I feet September 1 1 I Some coal was hoisted to the collieries collieries col col- I and run through the chutes at 7 o'clock this morning The coal was mined by shifts that went to work In the mines last night REGION AGAIN ACTIVE E. E The whole region became active as the mine whistles whistle blew this morning for forth th th first time In near nearly a half year ear an thousands of workers workers workers work work- ers entered tf the tho o pits m in compliance with the five year peace pLace pact for- for trally signed he here heie f erday atter afternoon afternoon after after- noon bv hy the joint r of op operators operators operators op- op and miners Leading Leading- coal operators said they expected t td to prod produce ce about 25 per percent percent percent cent of the dally average or tons All however will not be shipped away because much of It Its s Ii i ceded for tor col ers ui ut uthe the mines There are about producing companies Ip the anthracite fields The companies will try to spread their product so that a a. little will go to everybody e rather than all to toa toa toa a few The maximum output willbe willbe will willbe be attained about the end of the month CONTRACT SIGNED A contract between the United Mine Workers Yorkers and the operators was signed here yesterday John JohnL L L. L Lewis president of the union said It was the greatest contract ever drawn up In the history of ot organized labor involving wages aggregating a billion and a a. half dollars in five years Mine workers who went to work ork today will not receive an any pay for forat forat forat at least tw twenty nty days davs They are paid twice a a. month In normal norma times Their pay pa for the remaining days of this month will come to them between the tenth and fifteenth o 0 of March In the meantime relief willbe will willbe willbe be continued where necessary Miners Go On Strike WILKE BARRE WILKES BARRE S-BARRE Pa ra Feb 18 AP AP Trouble Trouble marked the reopenIng reopening reopening reopen reopen- ing of the anthracite mines here to today today today to- to day after nearly six months of Idleness Idleness Idle Idle- ness Five hundred workers employed by bv the Pennsylvania Coal company compan at the No 10 4 shaft at Pittston went wenton on strike a few fe minutes after atter the resumption of operations The dispute arose alose over wage rates a sore spot In the upper upper hard hard coal district t for years ears Trouble was also reported at the Woodward mine of the Glen Alden Coal company on the west side but operations operation were ere continued A score of ot company hands were turned back from Crom various arlous operations shortly after the opening of the mines because of ot the failure of the miners to report for work |
