TOO COLD FOR SCHOOL.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 November 1922, Page 5

TOO COLD FOR SCHOOL.

RESIDENTS COMMANDEER COAL. By Telegraph.—Fraas Assn.—Copyright. Received. Nov. <i, 9 p.m. New YorK, Nov. 0. At. Olyphant, Pennsylvania, an outstanding incident of the coal strike s aftermath, which had been foreseen during the conflict’s progress, occurred to-day, when two thousand citizens confiscated four cars of coal to heat nine churches and. ten schools, which had been closed on account of the cold, Olyphant, although the centre of a coalproducing district, was unable to obtain sufficient coal for the public needs, the fuel administration having apportioned all the miners’ production on a percentage basis over the nation. Thus the mine owners were unable to sell coal to Olyphant according to its needs. The citizens, however, were exasperated at seeing coal trains pass through the town without stopping, and the burgesses, at ft midnight meeting, decided to exert extraordinary police power. They stopped a train and detached four cars loaded with fuel and carried it to the schools and churches.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.