Show ANTHRACITE STRIKE TODE TO TOBE DE BE TONIC TO MINES AS ASFAR ASFAR FAR WEST VARD AS UTAH Bituminous Barons Produced 1 Tons of Coal Last Week and Have An Order For I. I Tons Per Pcr Week From Now On May Set New Record n fly HARDEN nDE Correspondent of The mIner Copyright Cop 1925 Consolidated Pres Iress Association WASHINGTON Aug 29 Through the hills It like the call to n a strike but over oyer the b fields the mu- mu music sic Ic Is hi that of a throated golden horn It Is resurrection morn pt the soft ort coal coni mines AnI In its graves raves clothes cloth s. s the industry Is climbing up to jazz dance clance Into a ady aday day y of prosperity The United l lIno Yorkers Workers of America In ef- ef effect have just handed the soft coal operators an order for two million tons of coal a 0 week from now new on That Is the way the Ing operators of the sort soft coal diggings dig dig- gings look at John I. I I. I Lewis Lewis' call to lay down the pick lck In the Penn Penn- Pennsylvania sylvania anla hills ThEY are arc jubilant those bituminous coal barons who but yesterday stood hat In hand before the bar In n bankruptcy Not dog Full time work at last lad PI PLENTY TY OP OF That's the Cr cry ot of gladness that ec echoes oes today through the cobwebs o of sort soft coal mines long boarded up Those weathEr beaten boards are coming down Those ru rusty ty nails wilt will shine tomorrow with the tho friction ot of II a new ne activity And Into the holes In tho hills will pour pourAn An eager arm army ot of men long Idle on theIr way to a 3 new days day's work For sort soft coal must take the place of hard coal There Is above ground today a stock or of anthracite no man has measured but It Is fa a a. dwIndling teck and not robust to the point ot of car carrying the nation for far Into the months of cold BItuminous operators and mIners dont don't care If the hard coal strIke never nt Ends Bituminous mIners for tor many weary months have ha tighten tighten- tightened ed the belt and grown gro gaunt with dental denial of work Bituminous op- op have formed In line at r 1 a courts or of bankruptcy 1 The In- In Industry Industry has ben been stagnant lifeless the ort off or of AmerIcan In a day ot of plenty At a time when hen almost every other Indus Indus- Industry try has been rolling roiling up handsome profits bituminous coal has been writing money with red Ink D The call to strIke to In the anthracite anthracite cite field has changed the tho outlook AS it Ir In a a. twinkling Already Alread with the peak or of normal demand com com- comIng coming Ing along bItuminous coal feels the thrill or of II a new and unexpEcted urge The logical result has been beena a 1 slight stiffening In price As yet the upward price trend In the soft BOtt coal field has been almost Imper- Imper But Is IB Is undeniably on tho way and many operators have already felt liB its first stirringS stirring'S More than tons of bI- bI bItuminous bItuminous were ere mIned last week eele almost wholly to meet the ordInary demand Because of the dominance ot of unIon non coal In the bl bituminous markets this great ton ton- tonnage nage delivered from the earth has resulted In but little profit to the union mines But Dut the union nonunion fields already are workIng almost to and the new demand demond created b by the hard coal strike can an not be tal taken en care ot of by non non- nonunion nonunion union soft coal operators The overflow orders ordera will go to the thc unIon mines mIneI Dispatches from the field to Washington tell ot of great ent hopes and expectations ov- ov In the belt where de cie and bItumInous compete for tor householders householders' favor tavor nS It READY DY The railroads have sensed the Coming or of the strIke and have pro pro- red for tor the turn In the tide of traffic by massing their open car equipment at points near the union fl White anthracite mIners are laying down their tools In bituminous miners In Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana II II- and est Virginia are pick pick- lug Ilig up theirs The off lay In an- an anthracite anthracite Is putting on additional train crews In the middle west westI I Iven en a as tar far south as Alabama the effect of the anthracite strike will be bees I A tonic on the bituminous w workings rEports Indicate and I clar acro across s the country to the mines of Utah and Washington the stimulant will wll ha bA felt Celt In dl- dl dIminishing degree as the circle ra- ra radiates radiates from Scranton Up to the present time the rec reccord ord for Cor soft coal production In a 0 single week stands nt at about 13 2 tons The trade Is talking now ot of a new rEcord a capacity output of nearly tons the soft coal fields If the an- an anthracite miners and operators operator re- re remain remain main deadlocked for six weeks or more The Tho bill 11 be hard put to handle the tha increased traffic hot If they can handle It the cars vil roll Such Is the sliver stiver lining which Its taco face on the mIddle west as 8 the midnight deepens on the theother theother other side ot of the cloud lowering over the un s settlements ot of Pennsylvania 00 o |