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Show !- H Coal Supply of Country Steadily Dwindling I fHines Takes Further f Steps to Conserve Coal Supply. 1 NATIONAL EMBARGO ; Mines May Be Brought Under State Control And Operated. I CHICAGO, Nov. IS Director Gen-1 2 eral of Railroad? Walker I Hints and 1 J today to consider Lbe necessity of 3 MscUrtag a nation wide Treight em I I bargo to conserve the country's sunplv ; of coal I Ht Hlnes is expected to arrive in I Chicago at 2 p. m I The conditions growiug out of the I present emergency wore discussed this I I moraint; by the regional directors, who H planned to have a definite program L read to submit to Mr Hines later in the dav P An embargo on all freight on th C hi I cifco, Milwaukee and Si Paul railroad 4 between f.'hicfsgo and the Pacific coast I has iie:n in ou.et since last Saturday.' : K Hines approvs the recommends I tion? of his regional directors, orders nay be issued immediately which will; mean f Nation wide embargo on froiRi): tA 40 per cent cut in passenger train1 Issrvice throughout th. . ountn t Clofln',- down of all non essential I lndustrli s, K Fifteen million workman will t-Ittrcwn t-Ittrcwn oui of eraployni-n K"The situation is extremely serious and immediate action is necessary,' BjUd R. H. Aishton, director of the i northwestern region today. The rail-' Wads are vital to rhe business life of fee nation and they must be kept go-Dg go-Dg Radical action must be taken. I Wfiv judgment is thai a general em i Hp is the only way to meet the i present rn-.-rg' ih " PHICAGO, Nov 18. Further dras-steps dras-steps to conserve the steadily Bndling coal supply todav were in jospect Brought to lull V?.llr.aiion Br' the condition to be faced should the ar.proxim.it. ', i blvminous C'l nillr.T- hn !! ill . ' r.k. l.V.rr. ; luzv. vd , , -,, continue to remain ' I- ''".-.!;..' .J . , . . i ttnertl of railroads, todav v.-as to dis wjs with seven regional directors thei Placing .jf a mvio.ial embargo. Extensive Exten-sive mining properties in Kansas to-, to-, flfl' wr in the hands of receivers to IBK? operated bv fhe state and proceed iB'nSshM hrrI: .vn.,, Ml , ;,L-.;I1ct Ohio ,aeF th would brlQt; th m und. ; PUtte control, alone; wjiji 'he North Da-I Da-I Biota lignite mine.- M Except North Dakota. Wvoming and pome Alabama and Wet Virginia lljunej, production tn-oiiL-houi the coun-fliliT3" coun-fliliT3" ron o. bettered .since I ln i, iUnl day of lno walkout. The I I r. e;i,-rH" i,- ,ai.i i b.- u.s 1 i ardmi; thr strike recall order dia- K ? V 'nhn 1'"wis- nct,nK Pre9i" aent of the rr:i,,j Mine -, r,rk-rs nr j a?eflca' order of the federal Z!l &nd Tn br' av;tirr'? an aKreement .. OI)c'rators nd miners1 leaders at 4 'VRshinton. General Embargo U l h?t5?ral embargo is the onlv way ( handle the situation, said R H .1 KS5i dlrector of the northwest i Jer rGg,0n "We havp h'i it un-EJ un-EJ :stant consideration. Immediate I J.01 !c ceessan . hr Paid Snr fucl today WBe available for VtottpCeErr H7tern,,on' 4 director nr ?, E Llarlty- assistant 1 f2 cKhc arca Rerdlng tho E"on probably would be made todav. "but '5, ,reV0luti0nar move." he aaid. fcS with Tu 8ary-1to 8aTt' tbp railroads r- with the railroads the countrv. Ke Unf1'r conid"ratlon some Heeral emb"go bo placed I W0Uld in a large reduction i of the present passenger sen ice. said I Mr. Alshton. Strike In Colorado. In Colorado whore the union miners were amnnc the first to resume cpern uons, a strike effective Frldav wa-.called wa-.called unless all striking miners were 1 reinstated j Of forty trains annulled j eterda, making the total taken off since the national strike was called 106, the mr-jorit mr-jorit were on minor runs. All trains suspended were on the Chicago, Mil , v. aukee and St Paul railroad. In that j connection it developed that for the !pasi ton days there really had been a 'general freight embargo in effect on that railway. It was intended to affect only South Dakota, however, and toda was amended to npplv onlv to thai state. ORDERS IN EFFECT. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. Nov IS. With coal miners of the countrv refusing re-fusing to return to work, drastic orders f' curtailment of fuel have gone into! 'effect throughout Indiana. n order issued by the Indiana pub-' lie Benice commission to discontinue service for electric signs, show window win-dow illumination, fountains and other nonessential uses of gas, water and electricity, has been generally carried out. In the coal Yields there was no change In the situation, the miners re-1 maining firm in their refusal to return to work pending satisfactory develop-j intent at tne v asmngton contfrence. CLOSING DOWN MILLS. ATLANTA, Ga., Nov 18. Closing down of numbers of cotton mills and other manufacturing plants in the I south within a few days was foreseen todaj in an order of the regional coal committee of the railroad admintstra j tlon discontinuing their supplies of coal. The order, effective today, was announced a "imperatively necessary because of the failure of miners in the I south's great coal producing regions to return to work.' although the soft coal strike has been cancelled Kun-jdreds Kun-jdreds of plants depend upon coal and many of tho smaller plants have only a scant ;:pp'y. The southern region of the railroad administration includes technical! all the territory west of the Mississippi and south of Potomac and Ohio rivers. Negotiations at Standstill. WASHINGTON , Nov. 18 Negotiations Negotia-tions between bituminous coal miners and operators in the central competitive competi-tive field continued at a standstill today, to-day, the operators again obtaining postponement of the joint conferent e on the ground that their counter-pro posals had not been completed. The operators were said to be con-lderlni' con-lderlni' where the money to pay wage increases wou'd come from and the possible effect the granung of the workers' demands might have on the future control of the mines. The possibility of federal control of he mines in case of popular disapprov al of higher prices of coal was said to be rccelviuj; the close attention of the operators PUNXHUT A W N E Y , Pa., Nov. 18 Six hundred union minei3 who went to work in the Florence mine today, walked out when they learned that Joseph Zuby, a miner, had been fired on from ambush while on his way to fhe pit. |