Washington County News | 1927-04-07 | Page 2 | 200,000 Soft Coal Miners are Idle

200,000 SOFT GOAL MINEHSARE IDLE JACKSONVILLE AGREEMENT EX-PIRES; EX-PIRES; OPERATORS DECLINE A TEMPORARY SCALE Eleven States are Affected in Suspension; Suspen-sion; Conferences Fail to Open the Way for Work WhatA cessation of work in the soft coal fields of upwards of 200,000 miners because of expiration o! the Jacksonville agreement, under which miners and owners have operated for three years. When The Jacksonville agreement expires at midnight, -March 31. Miners said they would be idle until a new agreement Is reached. Where The central- competitive field includes Illinois. Indiana, Ohio and western Pennsylvania and the southwestern district, including Oklahoma, Okla-homa, Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas also Is affected along with mines In Iowa and a few other points not Included In-cluded in cither of the territories. Who Upward of 150.000 miner9 would be Idle if all work is stopped as planned. A few mines have announced an-nounced work will be continued under un-der temporary local agreements, in the jnion fields. The number of miners affected in elude: I Illinois, 72.000. Kansas, SOoo. ! Missouri, 4000. . Indiana. 22.000. ' Arkansas, about 9000. i Pittsburgh area, 40,000. ' Oklahoma, 9000. i Iowa, 9000. Ohio, 30.000. Texas, no effects; mines Inactive. Colorado, no estimate. Total mines inactive, about 2000; j both strin and shaft. Thirty-six temporary agreements j were rigned in Iowa. " t