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Show oo COAL MINERS QUIT AS PROTEST TO WAGE PITTSBURG, Kan., April 5. Alexander Alex-ander M. Howat, president of district No. 15. United Mine Workers of America, announced tonight that between be-tween 1,500 and 2,000 miners in Crawford Craw-ford and Cherokee counties, Kansas, struck today as a direct protest against the recent wage award of President Wilson's coal commission. Mr. Howat characterized the award as an "outrage." Ho asserted tho strike was purely voluntary on tho part of the miners. nn |