OCR Text |
Show WYOMING HAS i 7650 MINERS This Is Number of Union Coal Diggers, According to Organization INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. March 25 '(By The Associated Press ) Suspension Suspen-sion of work in the coal industry 'throughout the unionized fields oi-the oi-the country will directly affect more than a half million workers In the coal fields of twenty states. Twent thousand Canadian miners also belong tq the United Mine Workers of America, Amer-ica, Nova Scotia formlnp one union district and the western provinces forming unother district. The great numerical strength of the I'nited Mine Workers of America is In the soft coal lnostry, the central competitive fields comprising western Pennsylvania. Ohio. Indiana and Illinois Illi-nois having n combined membership of approximately 115,000 The anthracite an-thracite industry, centered In three fields m Pennsylvania, employs 155.-I 11OO men. of w horn approximately one-half one-half are in the union. In past strikes, however, the union has practically BUCCQedGd in brinKinjar 8 complet" walkout In the anthracite fields. The approximate distribution of union miners by states, obtained from union source here Is as follows- Pennsylvania 164. 82G Illinois 9S. 000 Ohio 49.000 West Virginia 4S.400 Indiana 81,000 Kentucky 14.900 rknns. Oklahoma and Texas 14.800 Iowa 13.100 Alabama 1 2.200 Tennessee 11.500 Kansas 9,700 Missouri 8.350 Wvomlng . 7.6G0 Maryland 5,250 Colorado 4,675 Montana 4 625 WashlnKton 4.620 ( Michigan 2.125 Canada 2O.60O 00 |