Show NOT ALL ARE IDLE some of the soft coal miners secure the scale pittsburg with the exception of one or two points outside of the pitts burg district the strained situation be tween operators and miners in the soft coal fields of western pennsylvania Is hourly growing more pacific follow ing the signing of the scale demanded by the miners the mines of the oper acors who signed the scale resumed their operations although in many in stances with reduced forces in the pittsburg district there were 18 miners working and 1200 were idle the independent operators met on tuesday and decided not to sign the scale and not to work their mines non union the independent ors employ between 12 and 14 men and they are all idle |