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Show STRIKES AND STRIKERS. Fifteen Thousand Pennsylvania Coal Miners Knock Off Work To-Day. Stetson Hats and Non-Union Cigars The Knights Have Got 'Em on . the List. r Locked Wheels oa the Texas and Pacific, Pa-cific, and the Missouri PaeWe Employes Follow Suit. ". " " : The Great Coal Strike Commences. PrrrsBUBG, Pa., March 8. The extensive strike of , the coal miners of Federation No. 3, comprising thef tt. 0oal districts of the East," was inaugurated' ' to-day " for' the "uniform "uni-form sbale of wages adopted at the convention, conven-tion, February 19th. The scale isi Irwin 60 cents, Clearfield 50 cents, Meyersville and Garrett 40 cents, Pocahontas 75 cents, Elk Garden and George's Creek 50 cents, involving involv-ing a general advance of 10 cents per ton. In the district there are 10,000 miners. At 11 o'clock this morning dispatches received from the Maryland regions reported that all the miners, numbering nearly 5,000 men, were out. Nothing has been received yet from other points. At Irwin's, Pa., the miners employed in the mines of the Pennsylvania Gas and Westmoreland county coal companies came out this morning for an increase. |