Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1917 — Confident Coal Problem Is Near An Adjustment. [ARTICLE]

Confident Coal Problem Is Near An Adjustment.

■ Despite the fact that the coal short- ' age throughout the country is very serious and that the ‘action of the miners in striking at the present time has periled the entire country, the fuel heads are confident that the tense situation will soon be overcome. In Rensselaer at the present time coal is a very scarce article, especially soft coal. One coal dealer states that there is plenty of hard coal in the city, but not in the hands of the coal dealers. He further stated that the coal bins of the city for the most part were pretty well supplied with hard coal, but that those who were not so fortunate to have in their winter’s supply would have considerable difficulty in getting immediate delivery. Both Fuel Administrator Garfield and President John P. White, of the United Mine Workers, expressed confidence Thursday that the strike of the coal miners in the central corn-' Setitive fields of Ohio, Illinois, Iniana and Pennsylvania would be settled within a short time. President White left Thursday night for his headquarters in Indianapolis, where he will continue in his efforts to induce the men to return to work. Despite reports indicating a spread of strike sentiment among the men, Mr. White was optimistic when he left Washington. At the fuel administration offices it was said that he viewed the strike movement as sporadic and believed that the trouble would be adjusted within a few days by an appeal to the patriotism of the men not to permit the nation’s coal supply to be diminished.