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Show EVENTS TODAY TEST STRENGTH OF HE HON I Officials Think Estimate of 600,000 Idle Men Will Be Confirmed INDIANAPOLIS, April 3 -The first test of strength in the nation-wide suspension of work by union coal miners came today since the beginning of the suspension Saturday an annual holiday among miners, having failed to determine the exact effectiveness of the walkout At the headquarters here of tho United Mine Workers of America confidence was expressed that the day's development would confirm the union estimate that )00.000 men. among them 1U0.000 non-union workers, work-ers, had laid down their tools for an indefinite period of idleness. m i.MI U HA I IN DOCRT A tacit truce between miners and operators w-as counted on apparently to make the union estimate of Idle men a certainty Kew, if any operators opera-tors in the bljr coal oroducing centers that are strongly unionised were ex-i pectcd to attempt an early resumption resump-tion of operations. The situation, I however, was in doubt In the nonunion non-union and open shop districts. operatoVs of the Pennsylvania an- thraclte rhines were not planning an' Immediate resumption of work nn-1 reports snt here Indicate a similar attitude on the part of the mine operators oper-ators In flhe central competitive fiuld and the southwestern stales districts. THRjEE GREAT DIM KM is These ttoree districts have mor.- than iiiiimmi efnrlocs all union except-1 ing aboutrhalf of the 16.000 anthracite anthra-cite workers. States included in ihlsj stronghold of the suspons.on were 1 ennsylvanla, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Arkansas and 1 ikls tiomflt In addition, central Pennsylvania, and Wesf Virginia, along with the! smaller cflald fields, were counted on to swell the ranks o'f the idle mon j |