New-York tribune., 1917-11-01
Priority to Northwest Will
Be Suspended to Aid
Seaboard
N. Y. Householders
To Be Benefited
Garfield Assures Ample
Stock for. Steel and
Ship Plants
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.-Immediatc

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.-lmmediate
relief from the coal shortage in the
East was promised to-day by the iuei
administration. which will issue an or
der tomorrow modifying the arrange
ment under which shipments TO the
Northwest have received preference
over all other movements.
Priority orders will be suspended IN
a number of mining districts, particu-
lsrly in Pennsylvania, to release both
bituminous and anthracite coal for mu-
nitions plants and domestic consumers
in the larger cities along the Atlantic
seaboard. This, II rs said, VIII assure
an ample supply of fuel TO the O.t
steel producing and shipouildihg piSi'Vs
and will permit householders IN ne"
York and Boston to Obtain ali 'he an
;hrscite they need.
AT present most Of the coal mined IN
Pennsylvania. West Virginia. Kentucky
Ohio and Indiana is going 70 laSe ports
for transshipment TO the Northwest
and 10 Canada. This movement has
been so great that the Northwest is IN
n position 10 have the supply cut down.
Penalty Plan for Non-Union Mines
A plan to apply penalty provisions 10
ron-union mining districts TO preVehS
strikes and lock-outs was anhouiceu
today BY the fuel administration al.ei I
conferences with leading produce,Is.
President Wilson's order OF Mohua!
raising coal prices 40 cents 10"
throughout the country carried Pr
vision denying the increase 10 oislI,oSS
failing TO adopt the pena!'y SEs'e'.''
producers in nOn-union dlstricts point
cd our that they had no authority 70
enforce penalties against uhorsa"'@e"
The fuel administration overcame
the difficulty by directing that oPti"-
tors in non-union districts co.1e1'
6nes if strikes are called ana VII.
rhe money over TO the government iOI
use by the Red Cross. IL miners az
locked out without cause the luel "u
ministration will fine the opefSS1ol SI.pi' D
Gonet.ng the money to the hed CIois'
Cperators and miners ol 'he oo"'",
weg, .fho have iailed to reach an
accertabla agreement on peha!'IIys
the new contract were called 10 as.'
inx-on today by the fuel aahllIist,i@ IISti"-
conference A-N-''''
a p-ra.ty clause satisfactory TO ~
Ga5aeld is adopted coal price m
lenses will be withheld in the South-
west. c..I
Labor Troubles Settled
~Other union districts in the differ
ent parts Of the country said Dr.
Garfield to-day. "are submitting their
nenalty clauses to the fuel admins
traitor for approval. There is no IN
dication of any disturbance in the la
bor conditions in the application oil
the wage advance where penalty pro
visions are agreed to. Illinois, lndi-
ana and Ohio, where considerable uh
rest existed. have been Strengthened
out and the miners are giving full SER
vice in the mines
Investigation of thousands OF com,
plants OF violations by operators ana
dealers of coal price regulations mas
been started by the fuel adminlstra-
tion's legal staff. Information gam
cred will be turned over to the De.
nartment of Justice for prosecution oil
the offenders. Examples, IT was hin'-
ed to-day. may be made of NUMBER
of the larger offending producers ana
distributors.