Show laI I Shortage riIs All I S. S Industry Steel Suffer ew Setbacks asI astrike as astrike I Grips Nation J i By Associated Press utilities and the steel i try vital try vital to the nations nation's were were hit Ider der er than ever Friday by the Iding ill UI effects of the 33 old ld soft sott coal strike 2 v This ills is is how the absence of 1000 miners from the pits in 25 lites lites' es' es crippled dependent coal-dependent opt op op- t aloes a R Railroads The Railroads The office of defense IJ importation orders a sweeping Ib bargo on en freight shipments and 5 5 slash in passenger service coal burning lines effective k 10 The 0 D T also ordered enger service on coal-burning coal roads ads cut 50 per cent effective 15 C J h to Feel Strike t. t u Three Weeks st e Utah area can withstand of the tho coal strike for other lother two or three weeks bout hout undue discomfort B. B P. P ley executive secretary of Utah Coal Operators' Operators d FrIda Friday II ia is the only coner conner conr con- con ner er r faced b by dangerously ladling s 8 stocks t toe o c k s 8 ho he said tees s have ha plenty of coal re- re 1 dealers in are good shape railroads are not confronted th an Immediate scarcity more elaborate breakdown 1 the thc situation Involves ol too ch dt f speculation he said delor de- de lor Ing to forecast other future ts of the strike f Low Low stock tock piles of off oft t f bring the prospect of worse out restrictions than ex ex- 1 during the war to highly in- in urban centers New York Chicago and DeIn DeIn Det De- De t tIn In Chicago a state of emery emer- emer cy y r already has been declared t Furnaces Banked Curtailment I-Curtailment of or schedules results in banking Additional blast furnaces and Bg g of more workers at at af plants Bethlehem Steel and Carnegie- Carnegie ls Steel corporations two of nations nation's top producers the number of workers idled O consuming oil consuming 1 industries n dUB t r 1 e s the red mark gloomy of complete or or partial downs owns came from nearly every trial atrial state of these prophecies was lot of Louis J J. J Bosse Bosser managing tor of ot the Associated Indusi Indus- Indus i j of Kentucky who predicted of the states state's factories would lOlled In 10 days because of lack Jack of coal He termed the tion most serious and said shutdowns would add aad between 0 0 and workers to those fly y unemployed II Cuts Buying rower Power c ce e coal strike was also cutting timer raer er buying power U. U S. S Corp parent company of Illinois legle egie Illinois Steel Corp torp dis dis- I that wage losses to some Borne o 0 I C-I laid off beof beof be- be ot of the fuel shortage totaled y y This was i in ion Mon to the staggering pay pay suffered by the United Mine Workers since of their strike April 1 and Progressive ind min min- Who vho started their walkout caday aday general embargo on r all freight shipments except and nd fuel and a 8 cut in railway ger service was ordered by J J. J Monroe Johnson director e office of defense lethe e the order was designed to toe e e the number of ot coal burning motives in operation it will have lave some lome effect on oil oil- g lines 0 D. D DT T spokesman said Bald rail- rail 1 entirely operated by oil such suche e Southern Pacific will be bej ti j See Page 8 8 Column 1 r Coal Shortage Perils All U. U S. S Industry Continued from Page Pago On n permitted to handle freight shipments shipments ship ship- ments within their own system systems but will not be allowed to move may freight for pickup by connecting steam lines Johnson said much more nore rp orders will wIn be necessary if th the strike is not settled A state of emergency proclaims proclaimed In Chicago by Mayor Edward JKelly J 3 J. J Kelly came on the heels of ai al an edict from the Illinois commerce commission rationing electricity t tt to commercial and industrial cus cue of ot nine power companies serving erving persons The order more drastic than thai an any imposed in wartime limit Industrial power users to 24 hour hours per week New York City officials were prepared to invoke emergency emergence measures restoring the a enc and sic curbing subway service to stretch meager coal supplies At Detroit industrial leaders representatives of the Detroit Edi Edi- Edison son Ion Co and the public lighting commission voted to ask the city council Monday to o restore the wartime brownout Auto pl plants rits however reported stockpiles adequate adequate adequate ade ade- quate for a few more weeks Laid Off The Bethlehem Steel Co which Thursday announced the layoff ol ot workers at its Lackawanna plant In Buffalo N N. Y Friday dIsclosed disclosed disclosed dis dIs- dis- dis closed it would bank the second and third furnaces at Johnstown Pa this week General Manager Ralph E. E Hough said this curtailment curtailment curtail curtail- men ment t would be reflected in finishing finishing finishing fin fin- mills and shops and a more drastic cut in th operations would be b made within a week unless the mine strike ends promptly Other points reported Columbus ohio Columbus Ohio Governor Frank J. J Lausche ordered use x tf pf f coal curtailed In state welfare institutions institutions institutions with a day 36 coal supply remaining for the state penitentiary penitentiary penitentiary power plant Chicago Wallace Chicago Wallace N N. Barker vice president of Standard Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Co said production production production pro pro- of some same worth of freight and passenger cars on n norder order was seriously hampered by bythe bythe bythe the coal strike and disputes in plants of suppliers He said the Chicago works had shipped no cars since April 17 11 while plants at Worcester Mass and Bessemer Ala were operating far less than capacity The Michigan City Ind works will close down 70 10 per cent of ot its ts operations Monday for lack of steel Barker added To Take Off OU Trains Nashville T e n n n. n Nashville Chattanooga St. St Louis railroad announced its less essential pas- pas sener and freight trains will be betaken betaken betaken taken off oft Monday President H. H W. W Stanley of the th Tennessee TenneSee Central Central Central Cen Cen- railway said he would curtail service unless the coal situation Improved within the next week Boston Massachusetts Boston Massachusetts Governor Governor Governor Gover Gover- nor Maurice J J. J Tobin said the Bay state has a week two-week supply of coal on hand He called on industries in- in industrIes industries in in- to conserve supplies adding adding adding add add- ing that further action would be betaken betaken betaken taken to stretch existing stockpiles stockpiles stockpiles stock stock- piles unless the strike is settled settle i ivery very shortly Harrisburg Pa A A possible brownout of ot electric power in Pennsylvania was Indicated when Chairman John Jr of the public utility commission slon said the agency will grant requests of electric electric electric elec elec- firms for authority to curtail to-curtail curtail service as a conservation measure |