Show 1 oRDER DRASTIC BUT SO IS WAR GARFIELD SAYS Shut Shutdown of Industry Only Way r ay to Give People Fuel Fuci He Asserts t. t BEARS EQUALLY ON r CAPITAL AND LABOR LABORI I It i t Tells Hs Why Factories Are Arc Forbidden to Run on Reserve Coal I Washington Jan IS Fuel Fue Fuel Administrator Adminis ti- ti Issued a statement to tonight tonight tonight to- to night reminding the tho public that while the fuel Cuel restriction order was wes drastic war was as drastic and the tho order was a necessary war measure Tho The statement t follows The order suspending temporarily the tho operation of or Indu Industrial plants In portions of ot the United States Is drastic War IB Is drastic This war Is the most extensive e and Involves In greater sacrifices sacrifices sac sac- than any war heretofore The American people led II by the President entered this war deliberately deliberate The They are staking everything for the realization r tion of ot a great Ideal and the Ideal Is 18 practical We Wo know that democracy must be made ronde a reality at home horn as well as s abroad that Its benefits must be ho shared b by all 11 and Its sacrifices borne b byno by byno no single class Int Share Alike Capital and labor arc are embarked In Inthis th this thle war because all 11 Americans arc are In It and the American spirit cries out against the least suggestion that the tho burden bo be shifted to tho the backs s of ot any anyone anyone one class least of nh all of oC labor for tor la labor labor labor la- la bor has less financial ability to meet tho the prolonged hardships of or war war than capital We are arc realizing the truth now AS M. never before that capital and labor are ore not two but one Their problems present mere merely 1 two aspects of or the same sarno vital question The Tho unselfish and pa patriotic pa- pa Impulses and md the calm look t ahead will lead the country to approve e ef th order now In force Corce Industry is fa in an nn unbalanced e tion n. We lack Inck many essentials food I clothing fuel ruel We Wo have piled plied up enormous enormous enor enor- stores of ot things not essential to toUte life Ute but very essential to war We have bavo them piled plied up so 80 high on our docks and in our storehouses that the ships available cannot carr carry them then aWa away fast tast as the they pile up For lack of oC bunker coal held back h by traffic con con- stIon the number of oC ships In our harbors increases menacingly Contention Congestion holds Up lip I Food The food supply Is threatened to an ane xen e 1 greater degree deAree than the fuel tuel sup sup- p. p ply This condition Is In large part duo due to the congestion that at man many points holds the tho loaded car in n Its grip To single out Industries rles not engaged to some Bome extent In war manufacture is la industries which In th aggregate aggregate gate ate will bring relief only if It suspended n To require all In Industries 1 except a comparatively small part to toce I e c-e so for tor to few days will LIl cease a quickly ac accomplish ae- ae oJ tho the desired d results and permanently permanently per per- Injure none The order as lS It stands puts all Industry on an equal footing favoring fa none and avoiding unfair competition but this reason alone is not sufficient This reason the fact that the order will put co yil c l In the empty bins of ot tho the people will JU save sn coal will aid in breaking up congestion of or traffic and In furnish furnishing Ins an adequate supply of or coal to the tho people peo pIe who ho need it and to the ships which cannot sail without It It these J are sufficient dent clent reasons and justify tho tIm order Delay e IJen neen FutIle Only those thole Industries producing necessary necessary nee nee- essary war material that can be promptly delivered are arc permitted to operate op- op crate erate during the tho suspension period To permit industries with a coal supply on hand band to operate would allow many of ot tho the least essential to continue while some come of ot the most essential would be compelled to stop Moreover to allow those fortunate enough to possess a coal pile to continue would result In adding to the traffic congestion anI and unless the they also arc suspended at a la lahr later la- la ter hr period the needed saving In consumption con con- of oC coal would not result To have 0 delayed the application of tho the order would only have havo added to the tho congestion It Is no condemnation of ot industry to fla say that each would woula have striven to the utmost to Increase Its Hs supply o of coal and amI other ra raw materials during the days das prior to the application application tion of ot theo |