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Show THOUSANDS OF MEN I MADE IDLE BY STRIKE I Failure To Reach New Wage Agree-1 ment May Close Mine Indefinitely Chicago, April 1. Nearly 50,000 Ohio bituminous coal minor woro forced Into Indefinite Idtoness today and 38,000 Pennsylvania miners may bo thrown out of employment Friday becauso of tho falluro of tho recent Chicago conference botweon operators operat-ors and oMclals of the United Ulne Workers of Amorlca to reach a now wngo agreement to take place of th ono which expired last midnight. Pending negotiations lor a nw agreement, thousands of anion ool miners in Indlsna, Illln! and lows will oontlnn at work. Mot of tho ssinea in tko Okie dis trict suspended operations laat midnight mid-night In accordance with order Issued Is-sued Monday by tke operators. JHie oporators In the Central Pennsylrank district announoed last night unle tho old agreement Is renowod befor Friday all of tho mines In that district dis-trict will bo closed and work suspended suspen-ded indefinitely. Tho agreement which expired yes-torday yes-torday was mudo at a Joint conference confer-ence of miners and operators nt Clove land In 1812. Sovcral weeks ago another Joint conference was held at Philadelphia to mnko a now agreement agree-ment to take offect today. Tho operators op-erators refused to grant a wage increase in-crease and other concessions demanded demand-ed by tho minors and tho conference was adjourned to Chicago. Tho miners min-ers modllled their demands at the Chicago conference but the negotla-tlons negotla-tlons wero concluded when an agreement agree-ment could not be reached. Tho polloy committee of tke Unl-tod Unl-tod Mine Workers .of Anaerlen, tken decided that the men should remnta at work under the old agreement and that new agreement ahould b ad-Justed ad-Justed by local dlsfelet oonterenees, the plan to be ratified by n referendum referen-dum vote of the miners In at n' ed districts. Indiana, Illinois ana Iowa operators operat-ors decided not to close their m(na and negotiations have been begun with the state district unions for tke formation of now agreements. Tho situation in Ohio, however la aggravated by a mine run law passed by the last Ohio legislature, which will go Into effect May 16. Enactment of tho law wns strongly opposed by tho operators. Negotiations for a now agreement havo been In progress between tho miners and operators in the central Pennsylvania district slnco March 3. Tho Pennsylvania miners have abandoned all tholr demands de-mands except ono providing for a chango in tho system of pushing cars In and out of the mines. jmmma Miner Observe Holiday tsmsmsi Torro Haute, Indiana, April J. Lml Nearly 20,000 miners In ttie oloveath IPjTfl district bituminous coal field, obierv- lpjVfl ed a holiday today In, celebration of fjVfl the anniversary of tho enactment oC JH tho olght hour day law. H Tomorrow a committee of tho op- PjVfl orators will moot with the miners of PjWfl the district hero to Uke up tha mat- M ler of arranging a scale and adjwt- VJH tng other working eondtttons. It la ipH nut expected that aay troubte wl jVa b nountere4 in reaching an- agree- H ment. In the meantime Mtere til M be no teraal antfiomtion ot work km ijH tk district.. )H - nSBBBSH Miner Remain At Wrk jJ Denver. Colorado, April 1. )H meets between tk United Mine WerM H ers of Amrlca and mmioatse ! M mines In north m Colorado nmsdef'- M Ing approximately S0 men expired pH lait night. Pending negotiations for H renewals, the miners remained ' at M work. No increased pay on tho ton- IH nago basis Is asked, but an Increase JH ot from 10 to 30 cents In the day JH wngo rato Is demanded. M It is tho plan of tho mlno workora H to sign contracts with tho northern. pjTH unionized operators to oxplro next JH Soptombor, when a genoral confer- ijH ence between tho union and all op- IjTS orators of unionized mines In Colo- H rado is planned, to agree upon unl- M form contracts for all the unionised mines In the state. It you eough all night you gt reL nor doe nnyono els la the JH kens. Keep within reach a Ssfcti H of BAJXARD-8 HOIUIHOUND T- M aUP. It U then eW top tkn stmt- H ling whlck nue tke oongfc, Hfresv H over it nppenrt, PrUo H fl.M pot Mltte. ntol ky WWr H Drag Co. AdTecW meal- H |