The evening world., 1918-01-18
Some Firms win Pay--One
Plant Donates Services of
500 Girls 10 Red Cross.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. s-.Many
department stores and manufactur-
ing interests announced to-day that
they would pay their employees dur
ing the enforced suspension.
while the majority OF industrial
leaders expressed dlsapprovoi o; the
fuel order. they said they would obey
Il "as matter OF course"
The Baldwin Locomotive Works was
This afternoon ordered to close. The
works employs 10000 men and was
apparently operating In defiance OF
the Fuel Administrators order. VIII
tam Potter. administrator for Penn
sylvania, sent pcremptory notice %
Alba Johnson, President of tho great
industry. that ho must cease opera
tlons at once.
DETROIT. Mich. Jan. ls.--wltll
fow exceptions Detroit industries af-
lcctod by the Garfield FIVE day clos
ing order are shut down o-day.
Some were in operation for fow
hours to clean M production under
way. but they will fall In line. Tho
disposition to defy the order which
was apparent yesterday was changed
upon receipt OF word that DR.. Gar
field had signed II and apparently
had the full support OF tho President.
Detroit factories will not pay their
workers for the time lost.
BOSTON. Jan. Is. -- in 'ust..al
actlyity throughout New I'm n'.dad
was suspended generally to-day amid
great confusion in tho minds OF fac
tory owners and employees as to the
application or Fuel Administrator
Gnricld's closing order to individual
cases. That the shutdown was not
complete was due to the rullnf last
night that number Of manutactur-
crs working upon material needed for
Government usc were exempt from
the provisions OF the order and thnt
II did not affect machinery operated
by water or hydro electric power.
The latter ruling was OF particular
value In Maine, as considerable proper
b, tion OF its industries uses water power
Most Of the shops permitted to operate
because they did not depend on coal
for fuel conducted business as usual.
In tire case OF plants engaged IN Gov
ernment contracts the exemptions
were announced so late that It was Inn
possible TO get word 20 many an
piuyees. who, besorc the close ~ ousl'
ness yesterday, had been notified that
the shops would not bo open to-day
However, all means were utilized Il
summon the workers and, although
short-handed. most OF these factorie!
were running to-day,
WILMINGTON, Del. Jan is.--Al
though orders OF Fuel AIministrato
Garfield, closing manufacturing
plants not engaged in muntion work
was obeyed here to-day many EN-
ployers had their workmen cleaning 0
repairing the various plants. Other
announced that only by paying mel
their wages for tho i've days woul,
they DO able 10 keep their employee
from rushing to the various shipyar1
for work. where help is badly needed
Tho Bond Bottle Seal Company, en-
pIoying Ave hundred girls, will donat
the services OF tho young women t
, the Red Cross and they viii max
bandages during the suspensio
! period.
/, LYNN, Mass, Jan. 1s.-Not NOR
. than half of the 10000 operatives d
! the local plant OF the General Elec
, tric Company, who went homo las
/ night without knowing whether the
would be affected by the Fuel Ad
. mlnlstratlon's closing order. weT
I back at work at opening time to-da!
; The full force will be on by the clos
OF the day.
, Manufacturers estimated that be
E tween $1,000 and 10000 local she
Y workers were idle to-day
: LOO PLANTS CLOSE DOWN Al