The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-01-17

| the coal originates.
The rulings to be issued in con
nection with the order will be gen
eral in scope. Fuel administrator
| Garfield has reserved to himself the
| power to make interpretations and
state fuel administrators will be per-
nitted to make only special rulings
/ TO fit cases of the grayest emergency
| These viii be subjected to review by
! the federal administration.
Protests began to pour into the
| fuel administration offices early this
morning.
Expects Many Protests.
what we have DONE said DIR
| Garfield, Il krCw viii raise q storm
of objection throughout the country
but the people will see that the order
was wise and was necessary"
Instructions covering the main
points of the order went cut early
this morning to all state fuel admin
istrators in the east.
Other departments Of the govern
ment regarded the fuel order with
varying attitudes. The war and
navy departments, however, had
been consulted and were in accord
While it was felt that some order
was necessary to meet the situation
some officials believed the enect
might have been obtained by means
some confusion was evidenced in
the result expected on the govern
ment's war program.
The Council Of National DEFENSE
was anxious over whether cloth rae
tories supplying the government with
material for uniforms and oVercoats
would have to shut down.
Chairman Reed, of the senate COM
mittee investigating coal, attempted
to hale Fuel Administrator Garenld
before the committee today to eX-
plain his order but the committee
decided against It..
Garfield's Statement,
Fuel Administrators Garfield issued
this statement:
Adverse weather conditions in
the recent week and the inadequacy
of the present coal supply and trans
portation facilities to meet the war
time demand have made, necessary
immediate restriction measures as
to the use of coal, in that part OF
the United States east of the Missis-
sippi river.
THE movement of coal in trans
portation must be so directed as 70
aid the director general OF rail-
WAYS i'm dealing with the railroad
emergency created by recent big
gard conditions. Domestic consumers
of coal must be kept warm and 9TH
er absolutely necessary consumers
must be supplied.
"Au industry must be fully re-
stricted in its use OF coal In oroer
that the available supply for the re-
rnainder of the winter may be prop
erly distributed and may be made
suf7cient for absolutely essential
needs during the remainder OF the
winter.
ITO meet these necessities, the
fuel administration has ordered as
an immediate emergency measure
that on the days OF Jan. is, 10, 20,
21 and % preference and priority IN
the use of coal shall be given only 10
those consumers whose consumption
of coal is absolutely necessary.
These include in order:
Railroads, domestic consumers
hospitals and charitable institutions,
public utilities, ships at tidewater
for bunker purposes, United States
government use, municipal or county
governments for necessary public
use, manufacturers of perishable
food. or food for immediate con-
sumption.
All On Equal Footing.
During the FIVE days designated,
no manufacturing industry shall be
allowed to operate even IL ii has its
coal supply on hand. BY this meansi
all industry will be placed on AM
equal footing and each will be called
upon to make its share of the saert-
fce necessary to maintain the ma
tion at the highest possible point Of
and economic efficiency forI
the prosecution of the war
"In addition to this emergency re-
striction over the designated five
days, the fuel administration has or
dered that all use of fuel except byl
classed as absolutely nee
essary. shall be prohibited on Mon
law Of each week from Jan. 2S tol
March 25-that is, on Jan. 2S, Feb. 4, !
IL, Is, 25 and March 4, II, rs and 20
N"The order under which these re-
stxictions are made is designated to
distribute with absolute impartialityl
he burden OF patriotic denial. All
classes Of business are treated alike.
Except on the days covered in
he order the normal supply nf coal
% all consumers will be maintained,
he necessary consumers designated
n the order are given preference ardl
priority in the delivery and use of
.oal at all times as we'll as on the
days when other use Of coal is pro-
libited.
THE United States fuel admin
itration counts On the complete
patriotic cooperation of every in
lividual firm and corporation affect
a by the order in It's enforcement.
Every effort will be made by the fuel
and other govern
nent officials charged with the en-
orcement Of the order to carry out
he plan proposed without undue in
erference with the ordinary course
4 business.
ut is the earnest desire Of the
uel administration to prevent en-
rely any permanent dislocation of
Industry or labor"