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Show SHE INCREASE IN PRODUCTION ! OF SOFT COAL l j CHICAGO. Nov It. Slight in-i in-i crease in the amount of bituminous jcoal production throughout the country it in prospect today. The miners generally showed a disposition to await developments of the meeting to .day at Washington of miners and op-I op-I orators called by Secretary" of Labor j Wilson to negotiate a new wage scale In some states, notablv Illinois and I West Virginia, it was said that threatened threat-ened trouble by radicals or "insurg ents" among the miners had complicated compli-cated the situation In the general summary of the situation, situ-ation, optimistic statements regarding resumption of fuel production were re-ceived re-ceived overnight from Colorado. A ' number of indepe ndent mines there iwere reported to have started opera-jtiontlons opera-jtiontlons yesterday for the first time : since the strike was called two weeks ago |