Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1918 — Knox County Factories Ignore Closing Orders [ARTICLE]

Knox County Factories Ignore Closing Orders

’ Every factory and manufacturing plant in Knox county, Ind., operated in full force Saturday, regardless of the order of Federal Fuel Administrator Garfield for a five days’ suspension of work. J. H. Jones, county fuel administrator, declared he would not close the factories,lacking official orders, and following the action of the United States senate Friday in asking a suspension of the order. He said he had been in touch with the state feul administrator and learned it had no definite orders. In- a statement to supply men he asserted there was plenty of coal in the county and he would see no reason why we should not continue.