The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-18
CHICAGO

Chicago, January 1.-The Illinois Mapu- lecturers association tonight made an appeal to it's members to urge President Wilson and members of Congress that all industries be permitted to continue operations at 50 per cent of capacity.
 This plan, the association said. would enable plant owners to maintain their organizations and ameliorate loss to wage earners.
 President s. M Hastings of the Illinois Manufacturers association, when in formed that the order had been pro- mulgated, said that Illinois concerns would continue to protest against its enforcement, but would do what the ad- mnistration requests.
 The appeal declared that the "curtail- ment of all manufacturing industry will work incalculable injury.' It also was urged that immediate action be taken to increase production at the mines and the clearing of transportation lines by an n'bargo on all shipments except food and fuel.
 While maintaining that the order was unnecessarily drastic in it's application to Illinois, business interests were pre-
 pairing for its faithful observance. In Chicago alone. it was declared. the order will cause loss of production of approximately $6O00,00O a day, while it was estimated that the 600, 900 workers rendered idle in the metropolitan district
 would lose sl,5o000o a day in wages K Surging crowds of labor leaders. nanu- facturers. theatre owners and others af- fected by the order stormed the offices of the state fuel administration and through the council of defense all the day seeking interpretations of the order. Many manufacturers who compete with firms west Of the Mississippi, which will be permitted to remain in operation, contended they faced ruin. Labor lead CTS were predicting migration of work CTS to states not affected to avoid loss of wages in Illinois. New York, January 1.-The United States Steel corporation is preparing to close down in conformity with the fuel administration order. but during the period of closure will not pay the wages of employees. Chairman Ebert H. Gary, of the corporation, announced to- day.
 New York, January 1.-The board of
 governors of the New York Stock ex-
 change announced this afternoon they
 had been informed that the banks here
 would remain open on the fuel admin
 istrations coal holidays and that. there
 fore. the exchange would be kept open
 on those days for the usual transaction
 of business.
 Washington, January 17.-President
 Wilson today refused to accede to the
 request of a delegation of New York
 theatrical managers that theatres be
 closed on Tuesdays instead of Mondays
 during the next 10 weeks. This was
 announced by George M. Conan. spoSes-
 man for the delegation, after the party
 left the White House. This was taken
 as an indication that there was no disposition to modify the fuel adminis- tration's order.
 Boston, January 17.--Many business
 and labor leaders commenting today
 upon the fuel administrator order fol coal conservation, declared the situation did not seem to them to demand the hardships which they pointed out would follow the five-day closing of industrial plants.
 Albany, N. Y.. January Ex-Governor
 Whitman late today sent telegram to |