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Show ME STRIKE " IS QOE OF EIDURAffi Second Month of Idleness Begins With No Sign of Settlement intivin'riT.Ta ln.1 1ilv 1 -iBv the Associated Press.) The second month "i 'li" natlon-vflde suspension 'of work in th- coal rndustry began lod.i with ih-- officiftta at headquar-r headquar-r ;-- of the United Mine Workers de-clarinfi de-clarinfi th-t no setUement was in. S" ha nire was inadi- In Uic union estimate that at least C80.00U workers hd Joined in the suspension,! Including 7500P non-union miners lnl , ii bll umlnoiia fields. Peak strength, officials said, had not yet been attained and the union program calls for further efforts toj 1 . , non-uri n fields, particularly j those of central Pennsylvania Except for the drive Of union or-, ganizers into Pennsylvania and West fin la, the first month of the suspension sus-pension was marked by extreme quiet th workers of completely organized fi. Ida seeming to regard their idleness as a vacation. The drive on the Pennsylvania non-union fields was viewed by union official-, as Important in that they regarded the output of these districts ;ts a vital factor in de-u de-u rmiftiflg the outcome of the Suspension Suspen-sion hi Mr- central competitive field, employing more than one thud of all union miners. As far as the central competitive field, whwh comprises western Penn-gylvanla, Penn-gylvanla, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois and alSO lh outlying soft coal fields, was concern d the suspension apparently appar-ently had settled down to an endur-M, endur-M, Struggle, with officials here professing pro-fessing confidence that the operators would rinttHy be forced into a wage conference. While the anthracite operators had negotiations for a settlement under way. their conference with the union leaders ce .or a new wage scab- was at 1 1 standstill, but officials here expect- . .i aii earlier settlement in these districts dis-tricts than in the bituminous fields scattered throughout the country. |