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S Layoffs Rise 5 Industry oal Piles Melt Million illion Jobless Seen Ne Next t Week I Cities Dim Lights Schools Close WASHINGTON Nov ov 26 UP UP UP-Tho The e coal strike is costing tons of coal a a. d day y the government reported IY rhe The Solid Fuels administration said ald id soft sort c coal al' al mines l lIdIe Idle IdIe east of the Mississippi river with only open The The miners working at these mines ar are producing only t tons ns of coal daily dally S F A said f PITTSBURGH Nov 26 UP tIP Industrial unemployment bed Tuesday as a result of the s soft ft coal strike and mass lay lay- i appeared imminent As s th the nation struggled to conserve its fading coal supplies and school closings s industrial id s rial cutbacks slashed ed deeply into workers' workers pay checks The country's s steel t tee e e 1 l' l industry with production reduced by more than ban one fifth cushioned the economic economic eco ceo shock fort for mill workers s by shortening hours and alternating shifts But more th than already had been idled because se coal supplies sup- sup plies were vere insufficient to keep the thelast blast last furnaces open hearths and Bessemer converters burning at full ull rate More than of the thena Tia- Tia nations nation's a tion's ions wage earners may maybe be idle by byne ne t week if the strike of the United Mine Workers Workers' bituminous bi bi- miners continues Schools Closed 1 The chilling effect of the coal strike was felt from coast to coast Schools already were ere cl closed sed In n Walla Walla Valla Wash and Den D n ncr vcr cr Colo Cob Cities ClUes in 21 eastern states tates were were under brownout or or- ders Operating officials of Carnegie Carnegie- IllinoIs Steel Co Corp J largest op operating ing lug unit of U TJ S. S Steel ordered making making operations o the ithe in Pittsburgh Pittsburgh- Pittsburgh area cut cuto cutto cutto to o 3 35 5 of capacity compared with two weeks ago The cutback w will i 1 1 necessitate closing losing of seven blast furnaces in addition to the seven banked Mon- Mon day lay The company operates 24 iron ron and three manganese furnaces furnaces furnaces fur fur- naces in the area The steel making center of Youngstown 0 O. was hard hit Nine Sine of Republic Steela 15 open pen hearths in that district were tapped out and 2000 men laid off Youngstown S She Sheet h e et Tube Co furloughed a about b o 0 u t workers and closed four blast furnaces and 14 open h hearths Rail Ball Layoffs Illinois Carnegie Republic and Inland Steel curtailed operations in n the Chicago area The Tho Illinois Manufacturers' Manufacturers Asan estimated that the first 10 days of at the coal strike would reduce state wages by to Railroad workers felt the coal strikes strike's impact The railroad retirement re- re board at Pittsburgh said 2000 had been furloughed in the arc area The Illinois Central laid off and the Chicago Eastern Illinois With the t h e steel making steel making open hearth furnaces closing the rolling rolling roll roll- ing ng and finishing mills slowed National National Na- Na ional Tube Co a U. U S. S Steel subsidiary subsidiary sub sub- c closed I 1 0 S sed e d one of its two seamless pipe mills at McKeesport McKees- McKees port jort Pa Youngstown Sheet Tube shut down its rod and wire mill at Youngstown At Buffalo Bufalo N. N Y Bethlehem Steel banked three of its six blast furnaces and cooled coaled 11 of its Pits 30 open hearths At Birmingham Ala the coal strike had forced closing of one blast f furnace At Denver the Colorado Fuel and Iron Corp announced a 40 reduction in coke plant ope operations hons and s d that the entire plant would be closed In two weeks The Great Western Vestern Sugar Co reported it will close four beet processing See Pago S Column 1 L. L ii o- o Layoffs Rise Rises is 15 s Coal Supplies Fade j i Continued from Page On Ont One e t tt of lack eU t this week because a rol steel Kl Cutbacks in s steel t tee e e l 1 production i d up up to 50 N with the tle over over- Auction I action estimated at 20 0 Ittel el Ingot production will b be bet e tons last week t net tons this week estimate of the lie tre ere re was no number of s steel t tee e e 1 workers gl 1 drastic cuts in proa pro- pro the tM rt s 3 by JHan n. n but it ran In into to many Bethlehem Steel lai laid d ti j. j of ot f workers at its town n. n P Pa Plant Plant- Jong Slin blin Steel Co f furloughed 1100 S I production workers at Pa Pat I burgh and Aliquippa schools pools at Denver Colo and andrs rs Walls Walla Wash were closed rj use of ot l lack ck of coal and Bu- Bu N. FY tf y planned to shut down I schools at the end of this A k t Classes were suspended ato at 1 0 o U Utah h but the schools re- re lAed led open to give students assignments rr I Pittsburgh and C Cleveland 1 eve I and planned to start closing their schools in 10 days dRs If It no goal ia forthcoming within that time Geneva Genc Hit lilt Even the tobacco industry felt the effects of th the coal famine At A Lexington Ky an auction official said the sale of burle burley hurley tobacco will wil be discontinued within a few days day because of lack of coal conI in drying g J 6 plants United Press surveys surveys showed allowed Chicago Carnegie Illinois expected expected expected ex ex- ex- ex to d delay e cIa l a y cutbacks until after Thanksgiving No To schedule e has been drawn Two up yet Inland Inland In In- land Steel b blast l 1 a as s t furnaces were closed Youngstown Sheet Tube Tub e closed down two blast furnaces a at near-by near Indiana harbor Provo Utah Most schools virtually vir vir- vir- vir closed because of lack o of f heating gas made at Geneva Steel Co They are open only to give e instructions ns for homework One On coke o 0 oven v e c n and several ope open n hearths were closed down at the Geneva Steel works Seattle Wash Vash University of o Washington reopened after getting getting get get- ting surplus of coal San Francisco West Vest co coast t steel producers so far unaffected by th the coal strike Columbia Steel Co predicted curtailment by D Dee Dec c. c 1 du due to tapering of off of pig iron supply I |