White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1918-01-20
DRASTIC ORDERS OF
FUEL ADMINISTRATOR
AFFECTS INDUSTRIES

Suspension of operation of Amer
ica's manufacturing industries east
of the Mississippi and in Louisiana
and Minnesota for period of five
days beginning Jan. g. was decreed
by the fuel administration in an ord
er issued at Washington Thursday.
designed to relieve the serious coal
shortage. The order even includes
munition plants and excerpts only in
dustries producing food and those re-
quiring continuance operation to
maintain their business.
A preferential list of consumers OF
coal in whose interest the order was
drawn is prescribed including rail
roads. households. hospitals, charit-
able Institutions, army and navy can
tonments, public utilities. strictly
government enterprises. public build
ings and food manufactures. As a
means of relief the oAer provises
that industry and business activity
generally including stores, schools,
theatres and office buildings shall
observe holidays under any eondit-
ions each Monday thearafter for ten
weeks
Even street car lines viii be put
on Sunday basis on Mondays begin
ming Monday. January 21. and up to
aud i;cludins March ;.
,.aily newspapers may bur fuel as
usual excepting the Mondays from
January 21 to March 25 inclusive.
On such days they may burn fuel to
such extent as is necessary to issue
such editions as they cutomarily is
sue on important national legal holi-
days. When a newspaper does not
eustomarily issue any edition at all
on such a holiday 1t may issue one
edition on these specified holidays.
Stores selling drugs will be allow
ed to remain open as usual, State
fuel administrators In whose hands
: the execution of the order is placed
may close banks and trust companies
II they think necessary.
While the order does not mention
shipyards it is known that they will
be allowed to continue operations.
This exception was made because of
the great need of vessels to move sup
plies ready for shipment overseas.
The fuel Administrations move
came entirely without warning after
measures submitted by Administrat-
or Garfield had been approved by
President Wilson.
To prevent industrial unrest II was
said the government might make u
formal request that affected indus
tries pay their employees during the
time they were idle.
Protests began to pour into tho
fuel administration office early.
"VIhat We have done,' said d.
Garfield ~ know will raise a storm
of objection throughout the country
but the people will see that the order
was wise and necessary"
Instructions covering the main
points of the order went out this
morning to all state administrators
affected.
Government officials regarded the
flel administration ord :. with diff
ferent attitudes. The war and navy
departments had been consulted and
were in full accord. While 1t was
necessary to meet the fuel situation
some officials believed the effect
might have been obtained by means
less drastic to the country's econom-
ical fabric.
Some confusion was evidenced in
the result expected on the govern
ment's war program
! Statement by Garfield
Fuel Administrator Garfield issued
this statement;
! Adverse weather conditions in the
recent week and the inadequacy of
the present coal supply and transpor-
tation facilities to meet the wartime
demand have made necessary immedl
ate restrictive measures as to the use
OF coal in that part of the United
States east of the Mississippi river.
The movement of coal in trans
portation must be so directed as to
aid the director general of railways
in dealing with the railroad emergen-
cy created by recent blizzard condi-
tions Domestic consumers of coal
must be kept warm and other absolut-
ely necessary consumers must be sup
piled.
All industry must be fully rc-
stricted in Its use of coal In order