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Show 200,000 SOFT GOAL MIKERSABE IDLE JACKSONVILLE AGREEMENT EX PIRES; OPERATORS DECLINE A TEMPORARY SCALE Eleven States ara Affected In Suepen-lon; Suepen-lon; Conferences Fall to Open the Way for Work What A cessation of work In the loft coal fields of upwards of 200,000 miners because of expiration of the Jacksonville agreement, under which miners and owners bav operated for '.hreo years. When The Jacknonvllle agreement expires nt midnight, March 31. SI Intra said they would bo Idle uutll a new agreement Is reached. Where -The central competitive fleld includes Ill.nois. Indiana, Ohio t i,d western 1'uin.iyKaula. und lire southwestern district, including Oklahoma, Okla-homa, Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas also is sheeted along with mines in Iowa and a few oiht-r points not Included In-cluded in either of the territories. Who Upward of IO.O'jO miners would bo Idle if all work is stopped ad planned. A few mines bkvo announced an-nounced work will be continued un dcr temporal local agre'-mems. In the unlou fields. The number of miners affected Include: In-clude: 'llinois, 72.C''0. Kansas. fo'iO. Missouri. '. Indiana. 2;.(.uj. Arkansas, abcul t-OO-X Pittsburgh area. 40.U-.0. Oklahoma. &UU0. Iowa, 9'kO. Ohio. 30.000. Texas, no effects; mines Inactive. Colorado, no erllm-.te. Total mines ln.ivo. about T'CO; ooth strip and sha.'L Thirty s'.x temporary arrer .rn: were ilsai-J In Iowa. |