Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-25 | Page 4 | Many Industries Forced to Suspend for Coal Shortage

MANY INDUSTRIES FORCED TO SUSPEND FOR COAL SHORTAGE CHICAGO, Nov. 24. Industrial plants all over the middle west continued to close down today, fuel supplies to public utilities were curtailed further and regional re-gional coal ccfmmittees advised individ- uals to save coal as the nation-wide strike of bituminous miners entered its twentv-fourth day. The only large producing center reporting re-porting an improvement during the last twenty-four hours was West Virginia, where the output in the nonunion fields of the southern, part of the state wan said by the operators to be normal. The operators also Asserted that additional organized mines in the New River and Kanawha districts were expected to open today. In the great bituminous fields of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania Ohio. Indiana and Illinois fhe miners apparently were determined to remain idle until a settlement of the controversy con-troversy over wages and hours is reached by the conference at Washington of operators op-erators and union officials. At Indianapolis manufacturers agreed to close their factories three days a week, beginnins today, until the coal shortage Is relieved. In Chicago heat was shut off in street cars.