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Show oo COKE OPERATORS FIRE MORE OVENS Connellsvillo. Pa., lov. 18. Coke operators throughout the' region are working their plants six days a week and firing additional ovens when labor la-bor can be secured. Production during dur-ing the week Tor which reports were received today, amounted to 427,000 tons and shipments to 430,000. The merchant plants generally are clean ot stock and operators are talking -J3 and $3.50 per ton for coke before the end of the year There are not enough men in the region to operate I .the ovens already fired and as numbers num-bers of these insist upon extra holiday's holi-day's every week, the Tabor sltiTaCIon is becoming acute. nn . |