Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-12-28 | Page 35 | Trucks Big Aid in Coal Strike

trucks me in II GUL! STRIKE Motor Vehicles Prove Real Value During Recent Industrial Crisis. "Tliat tho motor .truck rendered invaluable invalu-able service for munSeipiUities during the iveent coal strike, was only another ex-;;nii'le ex-;;nii'le of the unusual dependability, economy econ-omy and adaptability of the motor truok in nitjeting unusual transport a lion demands," de-mands," says W. F. White, manager of the In tfr mountain Motor Car Co., < Lake, Ki.el distributor. "In tho middle we St quite a few of our distributors wrote us that the motor truck I took the rlaee of trie railroad locomotives : in helpiiie: move freight cars loaded with coal from m ar-hy mines and shipplns points up to the yard? of the local electric ! I llht. ks and water pumping atations, to provide heat to the municipal and Industrial In-dustrial buildings. "I. myself, noticed in tha dally papers ; at the time, lo'. when dtffernnt swltch-j swltch-j men's unions refused to move frt-isrht cars loaded with coal mined by volun- leers, inn i or trucks stepptMi into the j (reach and kept up the supply of the 1 precious fuel, at a time when no other I motive puwtr was available. J "IT these motor trucks had not proven . equal to the job, many additional nun- i j dreds of thousands of employees, as weil I as scores of industries, would have had to shut down. I "Owinc to the fact that the motor truck did not employ coal as a source of its motive power, made their operation eco-; eco-; nomical and efficient and did not ie up fuel that ruiiH have been used In any ! way by industries or municipal huildhifs. j "When the history of the coal strike 1 has bven written in its entirety, when the su t"f"rini? and anpuish of the millions of people, as the result, has been told, H will be found that if It hadn't been for t ue motor truck, the nation would have lf'.-n much worse off."