Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1922-07-28
COVE RNMENT WILL
DISTRIBUTE COAL
Hoover Speeds Plans for Ration
ing Fuel to Industries.
AWAITS OPENING OF MINES
Departments Will Establish Priorities
and Coal Will be Shipped First to
Localities in Greatest Need
Action Is Urgent.

Washington, July 21.-Regulations
for the distribution and rationing of
coal will be promulgated by the gov
eminent in few days, Secretary of
Commerce Hoover announced.
Mr.. Hoover said various govern
ment departments were cooperating
with the interstate commerce COM
mission in working out plans for dis
;tributing coal after mining operations
ARE resumed. Priorities will be estab-
iliShed, he said, and coal shipped first
to those Industries and sections OF
the country in greatest need.
The system of priorities will be de-
signed to keep industry going with
the least possible interruption. Mr..
Hoover said the plan must be devel-
'oped rapidly to prevent calamity
among many industries.
So far government officials have
not considered any plan for rationing
coal among consumers generally.
Ship Coal From Europe.
American manufacturers already
are looking to Europe for coal. and
shipping totaling 100000 tons has
been engaged to transport CONT
mental coal to the United States, MIR.
Hoover said. Orders already have
been placed for 10000 tons of this
coal at Atlantic ports, ranging in
price from $3.50 to $7.75 a ton.
The railroad strike has greatly cur
foil no Of
union fields through the Ohio gate
ways, according to reports reaching
Secretary Hoover.
Public utilities in Kentucky COM
planned of profiteering by Kentucky
operators. Their protests will be re-
ferred to Kentucky authorities. West
ern Kentucky operators are said to
have boosted the price of coal to $3.50
a ton. This price, according to Mr..
Hoover, is about S. above production
costs.
Mr.. Hoover estimates that the
needs of the Northw estern states be-
tween now and November Is will be
100000 tons.
Mr.. Hoover's reports showed IS per
cent of the coal now moving is being
sold under the fair price agreement
negotiated with the coal operators.
Coal shortage in New England prob
ably will be relieved by large ship
ments of import coal, especially from
Nova Scotia, Secretary Hoover be-
lieves.
Survey of csal stocks showed that
a great many railroads have not more
than one weeks supply on hand.
Union Warns of Disasters.
Warning against the operation Of
coal mines by "strikebreakers and in
experienced workers. was issued by
the United Mine Workers. of America.
Leading industrial insurance COM
panies have found that the bitumi-
nous miners have a death rate 80 per
cent above the average for all other
industrial occupations" said the mi
ners' statement.
what would be the toll Of dead
and injured if the mines were worked
with inexperienced strikebreakers?
The White House announced the
receipt of four more replies to the
appeal of the President for co-opera-
ton by the states in the effort to have
coal production resumed. The replies
were from Governors Richie, Mary
land; McMasters, North Dakota !;
Kilby, Alabama, and Acting Governor
Crockett, Utah. All were favorable
except that of the Maryland governor.