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Show I ASK WIVES TO I GIVE TESTIMONY kwu , Miners Refuse to Work After T : Howat Is Sentenced to County Jail PITTSBURCf, Kah., April 10. With tlic resumption of the investigation of U j ihe coal industry by the court or indus- trial relations here today, it was an-v an-v nounced by Judge W. L. Huggins that it iS' lio.ped wives of the miners will respond to the court's request and tes tify as to home and school conditions. 1 The women will not be subpoenaed but are asked to testify voluntarily. Approximately $000 miners of the r district No. 14, United Mine Work'ors of America, refuBCd to work today fol-lowing fol-lowing the incarceration for contempt of President Alexander M. Howat, Vice President August Dorchy, Secre-tary Secre-tary Thomas Harvey and Auditor R. fl D. Foster of the miners. Forty mines, more than half of the total in the dis-trict, dis-trict, are closed as a result. Wk No statement was forthcoming from j Mr, Howat tonight other than that the officials have not changed their stand H- regarding the industrial court. When Wt questioned regarding the strike which Wl ( 3prcad today in protest against the in- oarccratlon of tho officials, he said - ' that ho -would have nothing to say un- lil after the mass meeting of the dls-trict dls-trict miners, which will be held at 2 , o'clock tomorrow afternoon at Frank- |