The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1920-08-20
Correspondence The Sun.

Correspondence The sun.
WASHINGTON, d. c.. Aug. L.
No particular change is noted in the
Utah situation from a week ago. The
mines are at work, the transportation
facilities about the same, and labor
conditions unchanged. Total produc-
ton is at about 50 per cent, the prin-
cipal factor of loss being lack of ears,
labor shortage and mine disability ac-
counting for only 30 per cent
The order terminating the day
men 3 strike in Illinois aud Indiana
did not reach the men in time 10 eff
feet o general resumption Of work on
Monday. August ID, and consequently.
production of soft coal during the
week OF the 9Th was still mellow nor
mall The total output. including lig-
mite and coal made INTO coke. Is este
mated nt iO.33I.OOO net tons. u figure
smaller by $4,000 tons than that of
the week before the strike.
The effects of the lag in rcHming
operations may be- seen ~ ils records
ut daily luadiugs ON Monday, Aug
usi I'd. they were hut sO ,rr cent of
the average before the strike. bat by.
Thursday and Friday they had passed
the prp-,iriko average
Loading. un Monday and Tuesday
uf The present week August Dth ana
10Th closely upproXimutcd the pre-
strike average
The year 1920 H. eighteen and o.
quarter million toms behind 1917. and
more than thirty-cight million tons
behind 1918, but IL iorty-livc aud a.
half million tons ahead of 1919.
Cars of anthracite loaded by the
principal carriers during the week
ended August 9Th numbered N,2ii
This indicates % total output, includ-
ing mine fuel aud sales to local trade.
uf i.1j1. 600 tons This was q decrease
Of 10000 tons below that of the pre-
ccding week and 10000 tons, or q
per cent, when compared with the
corresponding week of 1919.
To the local strike at Pittston,
Pa, h. attributable the present low
rate Of output of anthracite. Produc-
ton during the past four weeks has
averaged 10000 tons less than during
the month of June, and except for the
week of July 3lst, has fallen below
the corresponding period Of 1919.
The cumulative production since
the beginning ot the calendar year
now amounts 10 52,3ls,OOO net tons ~
against 4D,l7I0O0 tons in 1919.
Operating Conditions.
The mine reports for the week Of
July 3lst picture the paralysis of
operations In the Eastern Interior
field caused by the strike of the day
men. For the first time since the
coal strike of November, 1919, labor
became the dominant fQctor limiting
production Adjacent districts bene-
fitted by the ears released because NJ
inactivity in the fields affected by
the strike. No universal improvement
in ear supply, however, occurred az
points distant from the strike area
Labor shortage aud strikes COM
bined caused q loss of 3l.s per cent
of fulltime, as against 1877 per cent
during the preceding week, and Ga
per cent IN the last week prior 10 the
strike. The loss attributed ln trans
porlutiou was but 1915 per cent The
influence of the disturbance rs clearly
seen IN the per cent ot rull;ime capa-
city realized in actual output, Ghich
declined from 5s2 Ia the week %.
July 18th, first 90 81, and later, IN
the week of July 3lst, 20 $50 per
cent.
The strike centered in lllinoi, and
Indiana, Practically all the mines in
Southern Illinois were closed down,
except for about 10 per cent of the
capacity in the Belleville district. In
Central Illinois less than 3 per cent
of the ordinary output was attained,
The shutdown was less complete in
the northern half of the state, but
oven there more than three-qudrIers
of the capacity reporting in the Ful-
tOn-Peoria district was down, and in
the Northern Illinois field the pro-
portion down was nearly as great.
Across the neighborng state az
Indiana the strike spread like a great
wave. On Monday, July 10Th, fifteen
mines in the state were down BY
Saturday practically every mine was
closed. The tonnage lost because Of
the strike averaged 70 per cent OF
capacity
Nor were Illinois and Indiana the
only districts 10 suffer, The wave
crossed the Mississippii in Iowa 1876
per cent, and in Kansas 23,9 per cent
of fullsime was lost because of the
strike. In the eastern fields the labor
situation changed but little, The
deadlock in the Kenoya-Tacker dis
trict continued 10 keep idle 70 per
cent of the capacity of that field. In
Alabama, as before, 10 per cent of the
capacity was down. Labor losses in
Central Pennsylvania amounted to
ga per cent in Section A, 1915 per
cent in Section b, and 100 per cent
in Section G.
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