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Show I IITCIIELL MAKES APPEAL TO r MDiE-WORKERS gravity of the situation Is such as to require that every, mine-worker taaU . exert himself and use every means at his. command to this end ' "Upon reading this comm'twication in C?UTnVhe JiIr paPr l unions should hold meetings and devise means wherebj the daily output of he min" may be 'increased. The efforts should be continued until the weather md- SSTbSi SSeT-at neCM6 & ' r - . ; - r.- . , - - 1 ' . ... .. - " . . PHILADELPHIA; Jan. 13. President Ilitchell of the United Mine-Workers of America has Issued the following circular circu-lar letter to all local onions in the anthracite an-thracite district: '""'; ..; ; ' Y. ' " "Philadelphia, Jan. 18. 1903. To the Officers and Members of Local Unions of the United Mine-Workers of America Ameri-ca in the Anthracite Region. Gentlemen: Gentle-men: You are no doubt, aware that a eerious coal famine exists in all the Eastern" and seaboard cities during the p'.iortage of the anthracite coal supply.-The supply.-The situation has an acute stajte, and las resulted In great suffering and hardship to the poor In those cities, we earnings are insufficient to ena-V ena-V them to pay the excess pri'jes now 1 . ;r? charged for fuel, and it la. sub-' sub-' . t .ir the general public to evcat in-I in-I r-ve-icice.- . To relieve the situation rnd alle-1 alle-1 cs far as possible, the Buffering ' tf :r sr endured is the duty of every ; :, cn -nrted with the production of ith this end in view we are .1 to address this communica-1 communica-1 f :i members of our union and r cat they co-operate u-lth the "t rf th mines in an effort v.-i r"r J -ction of coaL. The |