Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1919 — COAL STRIKE SUMMARY [ARTICLE]

COAL STRIKE SUMMARY

New restrictiofns on lhe use of soft coal were announced yesterday, sixth day of the strike. ’ln some localities crdeFS were even more drastic than during the war, but the general situation showed but .little change. Bunkering of foreign-owned vessels at American ports was ordered stopped by the central committee of the railroad administration. The committee also authorized regional railroad directors to suspend such train service as might be necessary, but let it be known that no general curtailment was planned. —o — Sixty-six trains were annulled by the Chicago & Northwests™ and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul. Other railroads were expected to cut their schedules within twentyfour hours. Small Kansas cities and towns reportdd nearly empty coal bins with closing ■of light and water plants near. A similar situation prevailed in Nebraska and Alabama. Indiana’s public service commis-sion-decreed. lightless streets, disr continuance of electric sign service, coal, gas for heating and other advisable restrictions of service by public utilities/ with less than a two weeks’ supply of coal. o Counsel for the miners fried a petition in the Indianapolis federal courts for the dissolution of the government’s temporary injunction against the strike. West Virginia operators reported forty-four mines in union districts in operation at the rate of 60,000,000 tpns a year, or abffut two-thirds of normafl. A slight increase in production also was reported by Colorado. »