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Show Bid STRIKE INAUGURATED. Miners in the Anthracite Coal Keghna Demand Kedress. The great strike of the miners in the anthracite coal Holds. of Pennsylvania, which represents practically the hard-coal hard-coal output of the world, began Monday. Mon-day. According to President Mitchell of the United Mine Workers of America, Amer-ica, who is personally directing the strike from his headquarters at Hazel-ton, Hazel-ton, the success of the first day's efforts to tie up the mines exceeded the expectations ex-pectations of the strike leaders. The hard-coal region is divided Into four great districts, the Lackawanna, Wyoming, Lehigh and Schuylkill regions. re-gions. In the first two, representing nearly 00,000 men, the tie-up is practically complete. Only one mine, employing a few hundred men, is being operated, and this, the strikers say, that they hope to close soon. ' In the Lehigh region the situation is a stand-off, about 8,000 of the 16,000 employees having quit. Principally because the onion has comparatively little strength in the Schuylkill and workmen there have no decided grievance, as in other districts, the strike was not general among the upward of 50,000 employed. Indications Indica-tions point to the closing soon of some mines in the last-named district. Nearly all the efforts of the strike leaders are being devoted to organize the men in the weak Schuylkill and Lehigh regions and their organizers and orators . are redoubling their efforts. |