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Show Z7PJP COAL MINES I SIGN UNION PAC1 Nsto Two-Year Contract Announced An-nounced It Made in Indiana. The wage scale committee of District Dis-trict 11 (Iudiuini) of the I'nllfd Mine Workers and i iperaturs of Imliiiiis strip conl ml nog signed a new two year contract. The agreement Is the first movement of any group of oper ators to sign up with the union since the shut-down on March 31. While terms of tlie new agreement were kept secret, It Is believed the wage scale Is the same as that of the Jacksonville pact, which whs $7.50 a day. The Jacksonville agreement expired ex-pired on March 31. Strip mine operators clnlm 20 per cent of the production In Indiana. Strip mining is doue with steam shov- j els on the surface of the enrth, and does not require much actual mining work. i I |