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Show iiE OWNERS : KM GAINS BY STllHEiS Nearly 100,000 Non-union Coal Diggers Have Left Their Work j CI TT.l .1' l.'I Pa , April 1J. Kf forts of union organizers in the coke rog-1 Ions of Pennsylvania were to be dl-: rented today against Ihe stronghold of, the H. C. Prick Coke company he-1 iweon Cdnnersvllle and Unlontowhi with thfee experienced workers from 1 the r nit i d Mine WOrkere headquar-j ter at ndlnriapblifl to augment the forcea In this district If they sue-1 r eed m crippling the non-union plant :n i his section the Indicated they ex-j pect the remainder of the fields to join the walkout. If they fail there i danger Chat many of the men now; out will return to work. Id I l l I FOR MINI S A LSH1NGTON, April 12. Author-' it v would be given Judgvs of federal, district eourts on the application of; 'tv attornej general to appoint receiv-ers receiv-ers to operate coal mines at which production had been suspended under1 a bill introduced today by Representative Representa-tive Huddleston; Democrat, Alabama. NEW yORK, April 12. A rapid : spread of the oul strike Into nun-i union strongholds was admitted at headquarters of the Bituminous Operator-' association 'The enemy Is gainine; ground much faster than we anticipated," said the, president of a Pennsylvania com-j pany. A. cordlnc to the bituminous operators opera-tors organisers for the United Mine Workers of America have practically1 unionized the Westmoreland ami Payette county fields since the strike was called ten days 115:0 Phillip Murray, Mur-ray, vice president of the miners' International In-ternational union corroborated the operators' report.- of rapid unionisation unionisa-tion of the Pennsylvania, West Virgin-la Virgin-la and eastern Kentucky districts. j At the close of last week SO p'"-! cent of the non-union men had joined in the strike." ho said "Today, ac-j cording to meager reports from our representatives w are fust appro nh-in nh-in the 7F. per cent mark." Mr. Murray asserted thai the ranks of the strikers in both bituminous and; anthracite fields had been swelled by nearly 100,000 since the walkout, and the production of non-union mines cut by several million tons weekly o n |