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Show WINTER COAL DRIVETO OPEN Proclamation Issued to Operators Opera-tors and Miners Famine Must Be Averted. WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 To avert a coal famino this winter and also meet all the needs of the war program, Fuel Administrator Garfield today launched a drive for coal production which is to continue until April 1. In a formal proclamation to operators opera-tors and miners alike the fuol administrator admin-istrator calls upon all to enlist in a detailed program to produce 12,234,000 tons of bituminous coal and 2.030,000 tons of anthracite every week. This tonnage, ho promises will give the country all the coal needed this winter. win-ter. It represents a weekly increase of 1,731,000 tons of bituminous and 121,000 tons of anthracite over the weekly production averages of the corresponding cor-responding period of a year ago.. The increase In bituminous production called for Is approximately sixteen and one-half per cent and in anthracite six and one-third per cent. Mr. Garfield's call was transmitted to every district production manager who in consultation with their mine production committees will apportion a weekly quota for each mine. Carrying Car-rying the quota Idea to its logical conclusion, con-clusion, each miner will be asked to assume personal responsibility for a weokly coal production representing his equitable proportion of the mines' allotment. oo |