Show breaking the coal strike problems affecting the future tw supply ot of the country will be discussed at tile the annual convention of the american gas cas association at atlantic city october 12 recent developments in the oil and I 1 1 coal industries are responsible tor for much of 0 the interest in the deliberations of 0 the count rys gas men this year it is recognized that with present high labor costs and rising prices for nearly all materials manufacturers are demanding more economical as well as more efficient methods of 0 heating gas engineers believe that manufactured gas Is the logical means to this end the use of 0 gas in industry has increased more than 1000 per cent in the past ten years the next step should be the development of 0 the most efficient industrial appliances possible with special reference to particular uses like nonferrous non ferrous metal melting brick firing vl trelous enameling glass hardening varnish making and food drying As gas is used more extensively the menace of the periodical coal strike will become less and coal will be used more efficiently in great plants planta which pipe the gas to the consumer |