The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-19
KENNEDY ORDERS RELIEF FOR CERTAIN
 SECTIONS OF CITY Coal Operators Instructed to Relieve East Lake,
 Woodlawn and Ensley
BESSEMER IN BETTER PLIGHT THAN THIS CITY
Dr. Williams Doing Splendid Work Among Negro Miners and Is Re- ceiving Backing of Operators
 and Operatives

Frank B. Fowlkes, chairman of the Jefferson county fuel board, received message yesterday from Sam P. Kennedy, head of the state fuel board,
 notifying him that several coal opera tors had been instructed to furnish coal immediately to relieve the sitna- ton in East Lake, Woodlawn and Ens- 1 ley, other sections to follow imme- diately after. Within the next few days it is expected that several cars of coal will be delivered to the sections
 above mentioned.
 The Jefferson county fuel board
 held a meeting yesterday morning in
 tho office of the board, 334 Brown Marx building, and discussed the sit
 uation in Birmingham and the entire
 district, but nothing definite was de- | cided upon. There seems to be no
 pra itical relief in sight at present
 and conditions are sure to become worse unless other measures are adopted.
 l Mir. Fowlkes feels that the only re- | lief will be the establishment of a woodward and he stated that num- l Der of men had offered the wood on Itoperty owned by them and very
 near the affected areas. That some- | thing should be done to secure better rates on cord wood and more wood yards opened and especially munic- l ipal woodward, seems to be the pre- vailing opinion.
 APPEALS FOR FUEL l Appeals for fuel continue to come
 into the office of the fuel board, but | Secretary Duncan stated yesterday afternoon that Bessemer was in much 1 better condition regarding fuel than
 Birmingham especially the suburbs ot
 tho city,
 Every effort is being made by the l board to relieve the situation and printed circulars appealing to the | miners in this district not to take l but one holiday for Christmas and that 1 Christmas day, so as to keep the max
 imum output of coal, are being dis tributed in all mining camps and this | is expected to have wonderful in- fluence with the miners and splendid results are anticipated.
 | Rev. A. c. Williams, chairman of l the committee doing such excellent i work among the negro miners accom- panied by Oscar Adams, W. l.. Boyd and P. D. Davis, met with the miners at Acton Monday night in most en- l thusiastic meeting. The miners were urged to only take Christmas day iii 1 celebration of the Christmas holidays and there was a ready response to this
 appeal pr. Williams made an excel l lent talk as did the other members of | the committee.
 1 MINISTERS TO AID 1 A feature of the meeting was the i talk made by I. l.. DeLony, super l intcndent of the mines, and all speak CTS were most enthusiastically re- | ceived.
 l Dr. Williams and his committee I spoke before the Baptist ministers | conference, which was Attended by all most 100 ministers, a,al urged eacn | one to speak to the men in his vicin- I ity along the lines of helping the gov ternment in the present coal shortage. l The conference voted unanimously to urge all miners throughout the dis- l trict to cooperate with the goverh- l meni in the fuel conservation.