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Show r STRIKE ORDER IN FULL FORCE ' Complete Suspension of Min- ing Operations in the , , Pennsylvania Region ' About 143,000 Men Are Idle as Result of Walkout, While at Least 17,000 Remain at Work to Prevent the Mines From Flooding. Philadelphia. Thero was n complete com-plete suspension of milling opcratliu I In tho unthraclto region Monday In accordance with the order Issiud last week hy President Mitchell of tho Mine Workers or America and the I , ncnlo committee of that organization, with tho Bolltary exception of the Ox- I ford colliery, a small Independent op- I oration near Scrnntnn, which employs I about COO hands, with a daily capacity I of about 1,200 tons, Thl3 mini waB I kept In operation during the strike in I; 1902. Every other colliery waH opened I1 as usual and In readiness for tha I, workcrB, but thero was no response W, to the blowing of tho whlHtles, other I than the appearance of the engineers, I firemen, pumpmen and others whoso II presence at tho mines Is necessary t I nrescrvo them from liilurv ami who Iwero exempted In President Mitchell's order. Thero are 100 collieries in tho anthracite an-thracite region, employing 100,000 men and boys. Miners' officials estimate 1 (lint 1411,000 mlno workers oboyed tin order to suspend operations. Tills leaves 17,000 men who nru permitted ( to continue nt work to prevent tho mines from flooding. |