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Show Day Is Being Observed by the People of Smoky City Pittsburg. April 1. What is known to the public at largo as "All Fools' Ia" is to Pittsburg "indignation di'.y" and to the forty thousand striking strik-ing mlnerb In this district ' Mitchell day," The latter is In recognition or the services of John Mitchell, former form-er president of the United Mine Workers, Work-ers, in winning hli fight, eleven ytars ago, for an eight-hour workday. The miners have always observed this day as a holiday, and have usually had so good a time that It has taken two or three days thereafter to get I'iick to work. Whether this year's breach in the negotiations for a new wage-scale and working agreement means a longer suspension, Is a mat-tor mat-tor which troubled them little In their revelry today. It Is "indignation day," as officially official-ly set by a civic committee for public condemnation of tho graft dlsclos-rres, dlsclos-rres, and a monster mass meeting for this (purpose .Is to be held tonight at Exposition hall. It Is concurrent thnt with the expectation that today or tomorrow, at the latest, the grand jury will come out with tho names of the men higher up In tho graft scan-dcls. |