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Show Fall to Respond. WII.KIHA1MM, Pa., Sept. 7. Districts XtH. 1, 7 and l or the United Mine Workers of America fnllcd to reind in a wholehearted manner today to-day to the call of union loaders to break the insurgent strike and go hack to the mines. About n hundred thousand mine workers remained in idleness and the production was only about IKI tier cent normal. Districts Xos. 7 and II followed the Insurgents lead and kept their lines Inlaet. Hero and there n colliery was able to get started, but as a general proposition proposi-tion the strike in these districts remained re-mained unbroken In District No. 1 the situation was bruhtor tor ihe union leaders. Several big collieries operated with n man lorce that w-is almost normal In the WnmiiHf Valley, Val-ley, the Ihigh Vnlle.v company was working "alMiut 80 per cent norma), and the lehigh and Wilkesbarre liad slartol three collieries that hnvu lieen idle since September 1st. |