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Show SHUT-DOWN OF FIVE DAYS TOSAl'E COIL ALL INDUSTRIES IN EAST AND MIDWEST HALTED BY GOVERNMENT GOV-ERNMENT ORDER. Edict Is Dictated by Famine in Fuel, Order Also Being Issued That for Next Ten Weeks Monday Be Observed as Holiday. Washington. American manufacturing manufac-turing enterprises, with but few exceptions, excep-tions, in all states east of the Mississippi Missis-sippi river, have been ordered by the government to suspend operations for live days, beginning Friday morning. January IS, as a drastic measure for relieving the fuel famine At the same time, as a further means of relief, it was directed that industry and business generally, including in-cluding all normal activities that require re-quire heated buildings, observe as a holiday every Monday for the next ten weeks. This will close down on Mondays Mon-days not only factories, but saloons, stores, except for the sale of drugs and food, places of amusement and nearly all office buildings. The government's move came entirely entire-ly without warning in an order issued by Fuel Administrator Garfield, with the approval of President Wilson, prescribing pre-scribing stringent restrictions governing govern-ing the distribution and use of coal. It was decided upon hurriedly by tin-president tin-president and government heads as a desperate remedy for the fuel crisis and the transportation tangle in the eastern states. Several exceptions were made in the order with regard to certain industries indus-tries which, like blast furnaces, would be ruined by any cessation of their plants; and for manufacturers of perishable per-ishable foodstuffs. Newspapers are excepted entirely from four of the five (bs in the five days between January 18 and 2'2, inclusive, in-clusive, but are limited to holiday editions edi-tions on the nine Mondays designated, including next Monday. The order prescribes a preferential list of consumers, in whose interest it was drawn. These users will get coal in the following order: Household consumers. hospitals, charitable institutions and army and navy cantonments. Public utilities, telephone and tele graph plants. Strictly government enterprises, excepting ex-cepting factories and plants work!:: on government contracts. |
