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Show A. P. TAKES 1 GLOOMY VIE Troops Ready, Thousands Idle, Plants Closed, Trains Delayed, Strikes 'COLUMBUS, 0., Jul 27 State troops are mobilized at their armories and concentrated in the coal mining districts; thousands of miners and railroad shopmen are Idle; public utilities, smaller manufacturing concerns con-cerns and state institutions In somt sections face Imminent coal shortages, blast furnaces and stool mills are banking their fires because of lack of fuel. Freight movement Is delayed over some roads; lake shipping Is on the decline and in some places facing a shutdown, railroad passenger service Is curtailed. Retail coal dealers stocks are depleted; de-pleted; concerns doing retail frdsisSBB in mining and railroad centers complain com-plain of depression these are som of the effects of the coal and railroad strikes In Ohio as Indicated by a survey sur-vey of the conditions by the Assoclat-! ed Press Of the larger industrial concerns of the state, steel mills probably were the most seriously affected by the strike. With additional business available. avail-able. Increased activities of the mills and furnaces were hampered by inability ina-bility to recehe assurance or sufficient suffi-cient fuel and in tbe Youngstown dis-' trict many blast furnaces already havr been banked. Besides coal shipments, movement; of livestock and grain was said to I have been delayed by the shop strike.1 In some cases causing death of livestock live-stock en route to markets. A stead) movement of produce to-, ward market centers was reported, J however. |