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Show coal is mM FOR STEEL PLANTS I : Ample Supply Is Assured, Conference of Industry Representatives Told. WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. Steel plants working on war orders were promised an ample supply of coal at a conference of representatives of the teel industry to-I to-I day with fuel administration officials. Some concerns, it wan declared, are about to clone down bcause of a lack of coal. To meet the situation, tho fuel administration adminis-tration will modify the priority order under which large quantities of coal are moving to the northwest and divert to steel plants by-product coal necessary for the j production of coke. Tho by-product coal I Is the only kind the steel mills can use for making coke, while- other kind a of coal will do as well for tho northwest. If after the by-product coal is diverted to the mills a shortage still is threatened, tho fuel administration will supply plants according to the amount of work they are doing for tho government. Most of the lainer steel concerns pro- : duce their own coke. Thos that buy i their supplies in the open market are paying now $ii a ton for coke under an agreement fixing tfel prices reached recently re-cently by steel producers with the war industries board. The fuel administration, under powers conferred In the food act, will revise this price at an early date fixing probably a lower figure. |