The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-27
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COAL
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ed their doors, while the Universe
ty of Colorado will shut doWr
Saturday.
Four thousand students at Brig
ham Young university, Utah, who
have been s%hivering for three days
cation two days early. Heat fol
the school building is supplied BY
gas from the coking ovens at Iron
ton, Utah. Public schools in Utah
county also closed as the Noun
tain Fuel Supply company conser'
we'd its reserves for domestic users
and hospitals.
Washington Hit
In the state Of Washington,
where only $4,000 tons Of coal are
available, the schools at Walla
Walla and several smaller COM
munities reclosed.
In the heart Of the soft coal
region, Pittsburgh school authori-
ties have asked the Solid Fuels
administration in Washington for
authority to buy 500 tons-enough
to tide the city's 119 schools over
a two-week period.
At nearby, however, the evening
extension classes conducted by
Pennsylvania State college and
Edinboro Teachers college will
terminate Tuesday night and the
public schools will close Wednes-
day noon for the usual holidays.
But they will not open next week
unless the walkout is called off.
At Philadelphia, the University
Of Pennsylvania plans to conserve
fuel by locking nearly all Of its
buildings and offices. from Thurs
day through Sunday.
The Lansing Mich, high schools
originally had planned to close
Monday but later decided to juggle
until Dec 9. Schools at Niles, Ohio.
fuel supplies so as to keep open
expect to close in the next few
days.
Meantime, unemployment in in
dustries depending on coal rapidly
reached the 10000 mark as ad-
ditional blast furnaces and open
hearths ceased operations. The
Tri-State Industrial association
figured that fabricating plants in
Pennsylvania, West Virginia and
Ohio would be reduced to 50 per-
cent Of capacity within another
week but that it would take at
least a month for 100 percent in
effectiveness.
The steel industry and the rail-
roads have been hit the hardest
although Toledo reported that o.
900 industrial workers would be
idle by Wednesday due mainly to
supply and material curtailments
as well as the coal shortage.
The Bethlehem Steel co. has
furloughed 5000 of its IA, 1000 en-
ployes at Jamestown, Pa. and ex-
poets to drop soon to the near
maintenance leyel Of only 5000.
In addition. Bethlehem has laid off
5000 at its Sparrows Point Md,
plant. At the company's Lcka-
wanna, N. Y. plant, however,
available work is being spread
among the employees although
operations were cut another IS
percent Tuesday and steelmaking
was confined to II of the 30 coen
hearths. With only three of the
six blast furnaces going and coke
oven operations at less than half,
production Of steel fell off 20 81
percent of capacity.
Ten thousand workers already
are out at the Youngstown, Ohio
Sheet and Tube co. plant and the
figures in this industrial city were
expected to reach 20, 900 by
Thanksgiving.
With several thousand already
dismissed by early operational
cut backs, additional thousands OF
employees Of U. S. Steel and its
subsidiaries are expected to be
furloughed within the next few
Gays as the nations No. steel
producer reduces operations to IS
percent Of capicity.
At Birmingham, Ala, where a
shutdown program will trim steel
making to 40 percent, another
$500 men will be out Of jobs by
the end of the week.
The railroads, ordered bv the
government to reduce service by
20 percent, already have let Oft
thousands of men including 5000
IN the Louisville area, 1000 in the
chicago section, 1000 in Pittsburgh
and over 500 in Memphis. An ad-
dltlonal $500 truck drivers and
rlvermen in Western Pennsylvania
nave been idled by the walkout.