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Show SUPPLY OP COAL. Bllanloooa sad Aolhruella Above Oroaad Will Laal Three Moolhe. It la estimated by W. II. Wllaoo, secretary sec-retary and treasurer of tha United Mine Workereof America, that the preaenl eupply of bilmiiliioue and anthracite an-thracite coal above ground would ba exhausted lo leaa than three mouths If there ahould be a general auapeo-alon auapeo-alon of work In the minea. According lo thla estimate, If tba national convention of mine workers laTlodlanapolla, July 17tli, ahould Tola for a general anspeiisluo of work in support of the anthracite strike, at la now proposed, Ihe vast Industrial machinery uf the L'nltrd Htatea would ba handicapped for fuel, fo that thou-sands thou-sands of factories would hava toeus-pend toeus-pend werk. Mr. Wilson baa alatlatlca showing that there are 4.'mi.(k u mines In tba country, araltered through thirty elatee. The miners of twenty-four atatea would lie actively Involved If there ahould be a euopenalon of operations, oper-ations, lo Idaho, Nevada, California, tha llakolaa, North Carolina and two or three other atatea brown coal, known aa lignite, ia mined, but the orgsnixation did not take these atatea Into conalderstlon when It Issued a eall for the national couvcntloo. |