The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-17
HAMILL'S
STEEL CUT
COFFEE
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ARE INTERESTED
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at least weeks notice. The poor will
suffer terribly and we will be power
less to help them unless huge fund
/ is subscribed for the work"
| Estimates received here today from
/ Illinois, throws light on the tremen-
dous immediate economic effect the
tGarfe!d order will have in this state.
| In the East ST. Louis district $4,000
| employed men and women earning APP
Eproximately 100000 daily, will be af-
Efected. Other cities reported the fol-
/ lowing number of employees likely to
be laid off:
Elgin, 1000, Peoria, $4,000. Moline
and Rock Island, $1,000; Springfield,
10000; Bloomington, 1900: Rockford,
$4,000.
| State Fuel Administrator Williams
today expressed the opinion that the
fuel situation is now much worse in
the eastern part of the nation than in
Illinois. He added, however. that the
crisis here will not be reached for at
least a week, when the shortage caus-
ed by the inability of the railways to
move coal during the recent storms
will be fully felt.
Conferences were being held today
in hundreds of Chicago factories. Hope
was expressed by manufacturers that
protests from Chicago might result in
a modification of the order so far as
Illinois is concerned.
Williams was preparing statement
on the application of the order in Illi-
inois which he planned to make public
at noon today.
Coal Men Say Unnecessary.
CLEVELAND. Ohio, Jan. 17.-Big
coal mine operators, whose headquar-
I ters are Ill Cleveland, today almost
unanimously declared Coal Dictator
!Garfield's order shutting down all in
tlustries for five days unnecessary.
IF 1000 coal mines that l could
name in West Virginia, western Penn
,sylvania and Ohio had 5een given a
100 per cent car supply for two weeks,
those mines would have turned out
25,000,000 tons of COAL" said A. w
Doan, chairman of the Cleveland Coal
Pool Co. At present he said they are
turning out only six or seven million
tons. Appeal to Washington to rush
cars to mines was made today by coal
Operators.
If we can get 100 per. cent car serv-
ice at the mines-or even so per cent
I'VE can quickly clear up the coal sit
uation with no necessity for a shut
down the operators said.
1t was impossible 10 figure today
how many persons in Ohio will be
thrown out of work Cleveland will
be the hardest hit, where 100000 work
ters, many thousands employed max
ing munitions, will be forced into idle
ness.
Cincinnati is next, where 10000 will
temporarily give up their jobs.
Loss in wages will run into many
alone. the daily wage loss will be be-
tween s1O0u,000 and s1,200,000
Orders to Close.
CHICAGO, Jan. 1T.-Packing plants
at the Chicago Union Stock yards is
isued an order today closing at once all
departments not engaged in the pro-
duction Of perishable food stuffs. This
will include the soap works and fer
tflizer plants. Other departments
, will continue to operate unless speci
tcally ordered to close by the fuel adj
!ministration
Criticism of Order.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1T.-More than
. 49,. 600, 900 will be lost to workers in
the state of New York in unpaid wages
for the fve-day period and the Mon
day holidays during which industrief
must be closed down, it was estimated
here today
Fuel Administrator Garfield's orders
!, for the conservation of coal means a
condition approaching starvation fol-
New York's poorer classes for the
time being it was declared Workers
on the lower east side and in other
poverty stricken districts of the city
live virtually from hand to mouth.
State, county and city fuel admins
. traitors in New York were astounded
by the order. It's scope is far wider
;, and it's action much more drastic thar
, anything that had been discussed witt
a view toward relieving New York's
, fuel shortage.
= Harsh criticism was directed agains
the fuel administration in some quar-
J. ters
e. NJ. Outerbridge, president of the
q New York chamber of commerce, de
, clared the order was giving aid ane
comfort to the enemy.
This order gives greater dismay tt
;, our allies than any step the Washing
r ton authorities could give" he said.
George L. Wiekersham, former q
>. attorney general, declared lLe hesas'
ure would work infinite harm, botf
I here and abroad
= Affect 100000 Workers.
n DETROIT, Mich. Jan. 17.-Fue
= Administrator Garfields five day fac
;. tory closing order will affect 23o,00
. workers in Detroit, costing them 81
=" 600 600 in wages, according to an es
innate of William Stocking, statistic
: ian of the board of commerce. Th
. loss In wages through the closini
. down of plants on ten succeeding
5 Mondays will amount to 100000.
> About $4,000 Ford employees will
Hose about 100000 per day. Thi
morning it had not been decide
whether the Ford company would pa
] workers while idle, but it probabl
e will not do so.