The evening world. Newspaper, January 17, 1918, Page 3

“ CITY’S COAL TRADE DEMANDS REMOVAL OF ALL TWAYORCALLS CITY [Miners Blame Fuel Famine 4 $ THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1918 t COAL ORDER LOCAL ADMINISTRATORS ASK GARFIELD 10 BE SPECIFI —__-—-«4 = Dealers and Operdtors Urge That Practical Coal Men Be Put iN]| te te commissioners of alt city de- HEADS TO CONFER ON GARFIELD ED Police Also to Receive Spec Instructions as to Guarding of Factories and Buildings. Mayor Hylan to-day issued orders partments to meet him at the City Charge of Situation — Edict a| tat ats cctock to atscuss Fuel Ad- “Great Surprise,” Says Schley. "Within two hours after receiving from Dr. Garfield, National Fuel “ Administrator, the official text of his closing order and directions for Putting It Into effect, tho local Fuei Administration sont telegrams to Wash- ington earnostly appealing to the National Adininistrator for “moro specific directions.” “Where does our responsibility in enforcing the order begin and where Administration inyst kuow @ great deal a Na db eli sje.| MOre than we do'on the acuteness o doeg it end?” wan the gist of a tele | teal aituat Bi, Sek tho crane would fram hurriediy despatched after A.| not have been forthcoming. They are H, Wiggin ond the full strength of the! soided by information from twenty: jowal F a > elght State Fucl Administrators und Fuol Administration had been In| Tiny heads of conservation commit. executive session In tho Chase Na-| they tional Bank Building to consider the] “af the situation ts as acute as the enforcement of tho Garfleld order, }order indicates a great saving of coa' Specifically, this question was put to|!% Immediately esseatial, The opera- dee ° 4 |tion of this order will give the rail- Garfield over the wire: | roads opportunity to untangle them- “Ie it up to the public utility | selves and the shutting down of man- corporations furnishing power to | Ufactories will release 4 great number of cars for fuel carrying. out off the consumer on the five | state uel Administrator Wiggin lays of shut-down, or must the | said he would make no comment on the joneumer shut down of his own order until he had reveived ft officially accord?” and added: “But tt goes without saying we will Mr. Wiggin, with Har Chairman of the Fuel bend all our efforts nge for the Committee, Reeve amooth and efficter ration of the # Administrator, an | order.” a | “COMPLETE SURPRISE TO ME," : SAYS REEVE SCHLEY. the admintstrat boroughs and J. M.| from the othe Reeve Schley, the Manhattan Ad- Rosenberg, counsel for the Admin ministr wuld: tration, netit the personne "It is a comp surprise to me. drastic than ed to Washing | The order ia much m anything we sugges the board which w nto ex | of Garfleld's | wession upon the arriv ton. [ cannot comment on it, of order at 10.45 o'clock. ‘Theira was the | course, untll I hear fro.a Washington, velghty task to interp gens | 1 will say, however, that we consider senty $8 ourselves ‘soldiers here Just as much Pears etcun ncn 4 as if were in the trenches. It ts up to discretion, especial! us to carry out our orders, for these of spectal ord are war tl you know i t Fue] administrators and railroad extraordinary r men agreed to-d ulated interests, | curately esti y nobody could ac- just how the order Outwide the counci ny will affect the city's Industries or sore the «| how jts provisions are to be carried ee nor see bullal Jotk. Noe were they agreed in thelr of manufacturers urging audtence | Oninton ut wi Awe Coen: with the administrators. | Telegrams oficial or othe: * edicted by business men. ministrator Garfield's order. All police tnspectors have also been ordered to report at Headquarters late thie afternoon for Instructions as to their operations in the ovent of the five-day holiday taking effect. Many idle factories and business bulldings will need looking after. Numerous Inquiries aro coming into Headquar- tern with regard to the closing of butldings where liquor is sold. This applics to saloons as well as hotels and restaurants. ‘This statement w Mayor: “To pass a hasty criticism on the deliberate act of the head of the United States Government {s neither patriotic nor helpful. “This order will greatly disrupt bus- {ness in this city, but it ts a war or- der issued in war times by the au- thority of the President of the United States. Undoubtedly the President and his advisers had a full unde Standing of all the immediate havoc which {ts enforcement will entail, and we must believe that, because of circumstance unknown to us, such a drastic measure was found to be immediately necessary. | “We all know, whatever the causes may have been, that the transporta- tion and terminal factlities in this part of the country had got into @ horrible mess, and were getting worse; and yet, that extraordinary condition is only one of the many that the President must have Lad to take into consideration, ' “We are at war, and this is a war} measure, War measures itn thetr| nature must destroy property values and produce human suffering. We have been warned that we at home issued by the and special messengers descr food upon the room where Ministrators held session ofi- more ome pub 4. | manu sand ‘ will cause | wides “insery than any coal LABOR SENDS AN ENVOY TO) famin ly ¢o will fall on depart- CONFER WITH PRESIDENT. | «: Labor first indicated { | here and elsewhor employees. w ou 1 be terest in the closing order became known to-day | head of the Bmer- Frmyne, State € y 1 ard of th Unite tean Federation of 1. ken | United States Shipping Board, sata un early train to W: in an {eis Hore Gut the Govern: ettempt to see the Presi ment's order: mailing ships tied It was the unanimous op f bunkers. There large coal dealers and mine « to-day that Dr. Gartleli’s dras same at @ moment when New City was better off in coal supp! ‘t had been at any time in th month of coal famine. Six uf the largest retail compa- nies reported to-day that 30,000 tons had been distributed among their yards in the last twenty- four hou! One yard which had | been empty for ten days con. | tained 2,000 tons to-day and | wagons were busy moving out the fuel in small consignments to re- a i lieve some of the most pressing | osiing upon Pre ences. , {iw the Puel Adm The attitude of the whole coal (rade) “hat the work! in New York toward the closing down meawure and the nevessity for its is- | suance was summed up by | w.|t award, editor of sthe Coal Trade] wit ne. upon ting these gaips back “ll mmunition =f. those of our Al- naling ships for 4 except In ex- © necessity ed and on thelr w with food and own troop We now ¥ on copti past aes WOULD SAVE WORKERS LOSS. Socialist Aldermen President to Modify Coal Order A resolution was introduce afternoon's mecting of this 1 of Al- vers mos eh would r the order tion Ww neide UR ne we ciesaie’ cous wien anal a - mine operators with whom | hay BREWERS READY TO CLOSE. alked are practically unanimou the belief that the soc t Fuel Administratio: and tn New York is chung ter tt will be for the voun aij heartily support tho editorial w terance of The Evening World along » Garfield order. to show how They ar good they are and ‘what line to-day, | be. No sooner had tho morning “The principal result of the f papera reached them than a special Administration's activity in all ing of the Brewors’ Board of rrade various ramifications has been to call | vy culled at No. 100 Kast 1th 6: eet for reports and issue priorit ena alia cise Preside G. Mupfel which up nea itire ton. | 2nd nage, leaving practically n ie . ’ ee eee Suede ce Wo are more than willing to comply It did nothing to increase the with the Ad:mtnistration’s order and we URGES THAT PRACTICAL COAL *!8!! be hupvy to pay full waxes to all our eu during the extra holidays.” MEN BE PUT IN CHARGE, “All the men in the coal trade the mine operators themsely 5 be- : GUN BATTLES IN FRANCE, at We can only have a com. Bere et ST Adninisient no when the Paris Reports No Infantry Action of present personnel is completely 1m @hanged and practical con! men, with| PARIS, Jan. 17 region of their own methods of production and ajajsons De Cham pag n the acc istribution, are gut in tay eat OE tha Kalenis Sie “The coal men bolieve that the zone & Le ere es pystem of coal distribution and con- @ervation should be employed, A ! Federal distributor should be situated |" "Cn the right bank of rman patrol whieh un yach small French jn the central city of each zone, jn 4), datrtencte eae whose duty would to distribute 4 aod HONE was dl coal from the mines according to the enoh troops tn the vieinity needa of this and that community tid Calonne trench, tn the sector manufacturing centre. Al! these tone inst night co 1 out a chiefs would be responsible directly envied t8 penetra to Secretary of the Interior Lane ant » deepl They returned with’ bis Bureau of Mino.” sto the wnt Before going to the conferenve the Local Fuel Administration Ha 'T. Peters, Chairman of the Fuel servation Committee and the coal man in the number of lox managers, made this nent “Dr. Garfield's = order dicates clearly enough th President Wilson and Dr, Gurfi atrald that ail the nation’s industrir are imperiiied by the fuel and freight congestion President ts square tional Fuel Administr of the order ts in prgot, “The Washington heads of th to Death one old 8 burned to in, pl That + uth teelt would have to share in the s \'This ts only the beginning. bo very patient, i I earnestly hops that the Presi-; dont and his advisers may be able to, give us some modification of Dr. Gar- | field's order, but, nevertholeas, we | must not assume that it was lightly {gsued nor hope that it will be quickly | modified.” —__—_—_. | i} DEPOSED GZAR ESCAPES WITH HIS FAMILY, IT 1S | REPORTED IN PETROGRAD Had Been Confined in a Monastery Near Tobolsk—Wife Was Reported Insane, LONDON, Jan. 11.—Nicholas Ro- manoff, the former Emperor of Rus- | nla, and his family have escaped from |thetr prison Tobolsk, tt ts ree ported in Petrograd, according to a Reuter despatch from the Ruslan capital near Nichotas Romanoff and lis family wero removed Tobolsk by tbe Kerensky Government last August. In October the Romanoffs were taken to the Abolak Mon te gomo dis- | tance outside Tobuls The Executive of the | Congress Peasants’ Deputies on |Tan. 13 a a regolution urging | that the Emperor bo brought to or Petrograd. A de- spatch from Amsterdam on Tuesday reported that German papors had auld that the former I on bad become insane and confined in a sana- | torlum at Tobe Her condition was | Fe rted to be hopeless | “GONDITIONS IN GERMANY | ALARMING, SAYS HERTLING |Decline in Number of Births and Increase in Infant Mortality use Anxiety. Commmiites nstadt AM ‘Chancellor vou Hertling ma appearance asa the Prussian Cabinet r Houne on Tuee- 5 Bill. He 1d grown up towns and on as might | sian U the Hous! }in the F to support a | peaking on the same bill, ve in the large a were te dust be Kbol- The decline © number of nad been ver and the y of children under theire mioutite een a * ° Garfield's “workless Monday’ order, | be for Chiefly on the Railroads NDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 17.—“Tho trouble is with the railroads,” said ] John P. White, former President of tho Miners’ Unton, who is now associated with National Fuel Administrator Garfield as labor ad- viser, Mr. Whito, who is attending the United Mino Workers’ conren+ tlon as # delegate, sald: “It {s not a question of production. Thero is plonty of prodac- tion, but the railroads cannot move the coal that fs mined. There are miners walking the streets in mining towns right now, unemployed, GERMANS GIVE UP. ““ANNEXATIONS? AS PART OF WAR AIMS cnet Reject Russian Terms and Will Treat Only for a Separate because the railroads do not furnish cars, “There are miles and miles of loaded coal cars on railroad tracks that are not moving, The trouble Is the country has outgrown tho railroads, The railroads have not kept pace.” MANY MILLIONS OF WORKERS: FAGE STAGGERING LOSS IN PAY THROUGH SHUT-DOWN ORDER 4,000 industria! plants in Baltimore are affected by tho Government's shut- down order, and approximately 160,000 | working people will be mado idle for | five days. | DETROIT, Jan. 17.—Fuet Admin- jatrator Garfleld'y factory closing o: der will uffect 230,000 workers In Le troit, costing them $4,600,000 in wages, j According to an estimate of Willian Stocking, statistician of the Board of Commerce, The loss in wages through Authorities estimated to-day. At an|the closing down of plants on ten average wage of $3 a day this will iota Mondays wili amount to illinois Closing to Throw Out 1,500,000, With PayrolNX of $4,500,000 a Day. CHICAGO, Jan, 17.—A million and f men and women tn Illinois will be affected by Fuel Administrator mean a loss of income amounting to $4,500,000 a day. More than 600,000 workers are af- More than Conn., Jan, 17.—It ts estimated here that not less than 40,000 Persons will be affected here by th ane en Administrator Garfield, 1 the adjoining sub o abeae ote repeal uburbs reckoned tn Bridgeport has a working population of nearly 75,000 In more than 100 indus. fected in Chicago alone. half of these are employed in the manufacturing industries which will tries, More than Malt of this ctty's be clomed for the next five days. /employed persons aro in munitions plants, Another 60,000 are employed in reta!l |” Waterbury has beon kooping 25,000 at stores, while 100,000 work tn office | work for mone time, and the coal urod + phere weyny [tHere 12 shops i# about 1,000 tone 3 buildings, Thousands of others will] Meridon shops bave on thor ents more than ” bands, and it is esti- mated that every day of idleness enon . ree Jos of $25,000, orwich has 9,000 workin, city's varied Induatrien, <= 1 the In Hartford about 50,000 will be af. fected by the shutdown, and the ware lous for the five days of tdlencss is estimated ut not far from $500,000, WILMINGTON, Del., Jun. 17. ty thousand men emple company will be thrown for five days, Official: pany will obey tho ¢ order, unless otherw is thelr plants throug! be released from work in outlying bustness centres, theatres and sa- loons, The number of manufacturing plants in the Chicago district which will be shut down ts 8,857, More than 75,000 steel workers in and around Chicago will be aftucted, In the South Chicago district there are 21,050 employees; Gary district, 20,000; Pullman district, 11,700; Mant Chicago—Indiana arbor district, 5,600; Whiting, 5,700; Chicago Holghts,| {Pel pli 5,800; Hammond, 4,650; HMegewtaoh, | United 4,500; Buffington, 1,800. ments, The Stock Yards packing plants} COLUMBUS, ©., Jan, 17.—In Ohio with thetr 40,000 employeca wil! bo] (794 Induatrial plants will bo aftect- exempted from the order except tor] Workers numbering TAM 626° wilh iG the soap works and fertilizer plunts.| forced to retain jdle. ‘Tho avers Three thousand Illinois tndustries y wit of the employees Ls $1,953 outaide of tha Chicago district will) °°, 0" M total of $9,/63,026. TOLEDO, ©., Jan, 17.—Mifty thou- ‘cod to close on Mondays, tt 18) sand workers will be thrown out of estimated. Theso include many mu-|«mployment here during the next ave aitiony works, Lb? og B, N, ¥., Jan, 17.—Con- PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 17.—Five ative extimates dudlents Chaires hundred thousand persons witil be st 50,000 men, Women and ebildren made idle in Philadelphia with a] will quit work ville bette ep ght, Wage loss of approximately $1,000,000] Rot remume until nex dnesday a day, by Administrator Gardali'a| close. Wale Geer ane aoet eee coal-saving order, The closing of Loe} $400,000 wil 1 be withheld from the Baldwin Locomotive Works with {ui| wage earning population through the 20,000 workers is « notable example| Myetny abut down, Forty of the ordtr’s severity, | thousand man in’ Youngstown steel Ten thousand major industrial! plants, mostly working on war orders, plants will be affected BOSTON, Jun, 1 leaders » affected by the shut down order estimated to-day that more thant, — The daily payroll tn $259,000 plicable 0,000 workers in Now Magiand w affected by the suspen the com- rfleld closing Instructed, tn the country ut making exploslves for the States and Allied Govern- ~Labor “DRY GOODS MEN FAIL lon of in- iy seeesan TO GET EAR OF GARFIELD °° "8° “ 599 are in Mass Unless Whitman Orde Connocticut, 132,538 in Rhode t Sarpy Otherwise 94.652. tn L Mee of Retail Merchants Ad- _— ; x Maine and 34,488 In Vermont. ‘Thou- oP iaahit “oltre i Unless Gov, Whitman de ' sands of these workmen are In plant journed Without Getting Any — « arfield shutdown days holtda engaged in Government contracts, Light) on Fuel Ord io Btata Denke BHO will not close T ' x The National Association of Cot- pi. Retail Drygoods ictiibs gustared thateeh i ton Manufacturers could not give at nei a meeting to-day at No this ueneae bek approximate number of cotton mill! sg: Gtreet in ay attempt to compelled to wear cout tiers and operatives in New England, The Na |‘) Aeclvictina tow the eties to combat the tional Association of Woollen Manu own order affected itn mem-| Mettine of gove 4 called fo facturers estimated that up f iG ntlae Peaaiant st A. eae thia afternoon, no te woollen and worsted manufacturing |~ to got the| ‘The order of tho Pucl Adimnintrator| trades. Jou Tucl Adminins | wax raflected at the uponing Charles F. Gettemy, Director of the |", oMAIis meeting | Stock Exchange by a Bureau of Statistics, estimated to-d, Journed until to-tuorrow, its | securities of Industrinty a \ that the wages involved five da ah Seas Ou. were |®# in the lerding ixsuce, Wit in the milla and factories bo es teen minutes thera was w 7 Umated at $5,574,862 ther all retail stornn wilt nave |AHee Brofeastonol interosts were buy Ai eaa da ge aay pita eure WA Ne ieriattted ie. Monday | eld order by the treet wan thet it w of wage carnors affected ts over 84, with no heat were questions | constructive rather than dextru 060, and the estimated wage tons duc 1 Drygoods Association) Recoveries from the early lo to a shutdown approximately $809,00 ke somebody in authority to! ware noted in Marine 5 ene BALTIMORE, Jan More th ‘ 1 coi Th = ———- — — —————— | eral Motors, | PROTEST WIRED TO PRESIDENT Sec BY THE BROADWAY ASSOCIATION. IRECTORS of the Broadway A tion to-day sent to P te Wilson and Dr, Garfield the tolloa lig telegram "The Broadway Association fio againet the order of Believe {t is unnecessary at the present momen A fair chance has not been given railroads to demonstrate what can be done since the Government assumed charge, Facilities at terminal points are not beiug used to capacity, La ships have not been used for breaking ice, an should be the cane, Many small mines bave boen closed because of insuffictent price accorded them “Vive days stoppage of industries in Nev York very impracticable because of Joint use of buildings, Better embargo all passenger ser- rice stries of the country Wroadway Association Fue! Administration or a day or two than to atop the t ‘3. D. THO) Pre Peace. BERUIN, J An offictal » n. 17 temont issued here to (via: London) day giving the reply by the Central Powers to the Russian propowals at Brost-Litovsk on the Monday Russian propowals concerning the re- ions occupied by the Central Pow- era diverge to such a degreo from the views of the Central Powers that In their pres form they are in- acceptable, The official statemont says tho Rus- sian proposals do not show bromising attitude and do atder the opposite part basta. Nevertheless, the Central Pow. ors again aro prepared to give a early formulated expreasion of their opinions and to try to find a basis for @ compronilec For the Central Powers, as dis- says a& com- not con moon a fust tig from the o with Ru th@announcement adds, a con- clugion of peace with Russia hao no jconnection with @ general pease, and the Central Powers are compelled to continue the wat against their other enemi: Thd assertion that the right of self determination is an attribute of na- tions and not of parts of nations | not oBr conception of setf-determi tion, the official statement declares. It must not be assumed that the Itm its of occupation are a standard for fixing tho boundaries of such por- tions. Austro-Germans, tl , do not intend Incorporating the territories now led by them into thelr respective count Withdrawal of the Austrian and German troops from the oc ? tories while the war laste is Inv possible, the statement saya, The Central Powers agroed, it added, that a vote of the broad Unes be sanctioned on of citizenship, but {t wan deck & referendum appeared to be statement upt imprac tieable he Central Powers think that a vote on a wide basia taken from the electors and supplemented by a representative body would suffice. Desiring to reach an underst ing with Russia, the statement tinues, the Central Powers mad foregoing far-reaching — proponi which represent the most + limits within which they sti to reach a peaceful understandiug. The Austrians and Germans, ray the etatement, do not intend ‘om the territories tn dispute to 1 cept this or that form of state, but they reserve for themselves and the rritorios a peoples of the ocenpind 5 ¢ asion © free hand for t treaties of every kind If military conditir Central Powers may endeay duce the st the occupying f to such numbers as ure necessury maintain order and meet tech i ve quirements of the country. ‘Tho set ting up of a fonal Kendarmerto may be striven for warding return to their homes of civillans who have been removed, the statement pays this questi« examined in & benevolent timo to ume, but that it could be tn trusted to « special commission in not un lasue of outstanding cally soe STOCK EXCHANGE NOT TO BE CLOSED e Principal ste ig! sing pitcew of tn OIL BUSINESS NOT HIT. Consam, f Fact OW t Must Obey Orde nm of the Fuel Administ onda aed the following statemer “Dr. Gurflold has tnatructed to announce that consumption 4 lapplying to the dritiing or {oil or gas wells, transporting wring Or @istributl Its products or natu peat he that consumer note. engage: 6 obligated n accordance ationn ay laid nistrato hin order red hot to be co: must un of the United States to protect the + country. “How are we to keep paying for FUEL ae +, Telegrams Denouncing Shut-.f Down Flood Head of Work- ers’ Organizatic | WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 —samuet | Gompers, President of the Amer! an | Federation of Labor, this afternoon forecnst “great suffering” to workers uupensfon | Aw a result of the Garfield s order Characterizing the Mue) ‘Adminis. ! tration action as “a very radical! measure,” Gompers at the same time | appealed to industrial employerw not to at D wages during the suspendioa periods, | Ho announced receipt prote: f telegraphic | 8 from workers in all sections | denouncing tho order and predicts | widespread suffering among the la- boring classes, HOSTON, Jan, 17.—Many se | anit labor loaders, commenting to-day upon the Puet Administrator's order for com! conservation, dewlared the situation did not geem to them to de- mand the hardships which they point- jed out would follow the five day clos- Ing of industrial plants, Thomas F. Anderson, Secretary of the New England Shoe and Leather Association; said: “More than 100,000 workers will be affected in the shoo shops alone, while in the allied industries another 000 will be forced 1 an i@enisa N y can i afford is time. More than 50 per cent. of the shoes In the United States are made in this vieine ity and the loss ea will be hard to estimate. ‘Tho situation is much more serious on account of the ap. parent lack of necensity for such ac- tion,” trove ineMoiency 14 reaponsible x the conditions that call for the order,” declared President MoGrady of the Roston Central Labor Union. “Organized lubor recognizes the ex- istence of the emergency, but knows tha is tho result of the Adinioist:.. the emergency pitiful bungline by Therefore we demand that the prevent Puc! Board be wiped out and replaced with practical workers In the industries am dj, men that come in daily and dir ntact with the actual conditions.” Horman M. C, Comerford, President of tho Massachusetts Stato Branch of Luginoers, sald: "Our members have fought Liberty bonds and our sons bave enlisted in the army and navy thove bonds and continue to subseribe for wor funds if they are going to take away a large porcentage of our| earnings? Vo feel that incompetent andiing the fuel situation and ie Interests of the country and fuinilies we demand that these ompetents be removed and thelr aces filled by competent and prac- tloal_ men who understand the coal men ind transportation systems," Vrederick C, Hood, General Man- tise the Hood Rubber Company, declar BUSINESS ANDLA PROTEST AT CLOSING ORDER: GOMPERS FORESEES HARDSHIP CHIEF can afford to pay the men, while others cannot.” James B. Forgan, Chairinan of the Hoard of Directors of tho Firat Na- tional Bonk, sald; did not know the fuel situation way so serious ua the Fuel Administrator's order wouWt Indicate, But he undoubtedly bas the data before him, and even this drastie move must be warranted,” “Tho {uel emergency in Minois is pot quite {tical as would warrant this ord ate Fuel Administrator John 1. Williams said, "I bope it ean be modified.” The Mlinois Manufacturers’ Asses clation adopted the following resolte tion Wo express our regret of the ne~+ cessity of this action end reapecttully extend our cheerful co-operation and Whole-hearted compliance as a La triotie duty MERIDE Conn, Jan, 17.—Thew Manufacturers’ Association, the local War Bureau and the Chamber of Commerce to-day a opted messages to be sent to Washington protesting: ugainst the Government order sus pending factory operation for five days, NEW HAV Conn., Jan, tf Manufacturers and business men mes here to-day to discuss the situation resulting from the business suspen- sion order. Bridgeport manufactur- ers also met and some of the plants’ there communicated by telephone with Washington seeking a modifi« tion of the order which would ex- ompt them from tts operation. At Bristol some of the factories are operated by electricity derived largely from water power and manu facturers suld they were uncertafis to how the Government order Would affect them, HARTVORD, Covn., Jan. 17.—Coy. Holcomb, addreming a State Was Council which opened a two days’ sep- sion here to-day, urged citizens tw re- frain from criticism of the Govern- Ment and to co-operate in every way Dowsible. Ff ferring to the Govern - for @ factory shut-down, I suppose all of you thin you have a right to critielze the ordey The only way for you to fight this was im to back up your Government.” SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Jan. er Protests against the Intest Fuel ad. ministration orders were filed with Washington to-day by the Spring- eld Atrerat? Corporation and the Smith Wesson Company, boti of which aro doing work for the Gov- ernment he schools will keep open Satur days to offset closing Mondays. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 17.~Indus- trial and labor leaders in Philaded pila, although regarding Fuel Ad- ministrator Garfield's order baltin business activity as extremely dri tie, expressed thelr willingness to-day to co-operate in every way posulise Mont of them sald the order would mean the losy of thousands of dollars, that some working forces might be disorganized and shat some unrest among working men might result, but that the main consideration was tu win the war, "no matter what the cont.” Aiba B, Johnson. Haldwin Locomotiy *whateve President of the Works, sald thar done, We will take our “The order ix nothing short of a | medic * lig added that the clos. calamity, Of 50, tht a | ing of the Baldwin plant would mean mol DE 'course, this is war and! ie toss of seventeen locomotives fr Ne must obey, Still, tt appears that | We are receiving arbitrary orders fLom persons who have not studied 1 Ae Gov, MeCall suid “Only necessity ean justify the jorder that has been given, which wi jmnean the ment of industry ant! | very serious loes to pe who can | fford to stand tt 1 have known that the situation was serious, Jdid not k it xo serlous an beyed, and wi boet grace pow A wituatior ttn Chi tons resulte | Admin | 1 confidently | ate can adjunt itself rap. to obtain a modification | Tho published regulations, it wai ft so much In doubt (hat thou- of industries were at a losa at to do, Concrete example of un. rt was pr by the Corn tr Company feh buys ap: xin y half the n id local Chicago Board of Trade tt until pre nformation wow ut hand as to what the Government us «Tete President of the n of Commer, i The order come a when our own Fuel Ad- m has been making plans, leve probably would have | sume result without being The laying off of msn will w Aviip Some each day of nen be correctly distributed to in- sure proper and comfortable fit. 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