The Nome nugget., 1902-11-05
THE GREAT C0ALSTRIkE England and Europe Are
 Much Interested. SERIOUS SlTUATg0M 4 Question Which Is Bound to Press Fer Solution in the
 Near Future.
SERIOUS SlTUATg0M

| I4OndOn, Oct. I+.-fn9 idnI ana fG- rope generally are now taxing the greatest interest in the American coal strike. The situation in it., latest as l beet iS regarded as one of the most serious social crises with which repub- iran institutions have had to deal. | The feature of the problem most dis CusSed i, what remedies are available 1 in case the strike should continue | without criminal violence and yet the supply of coal .houid continue made QuAtc fer the public necessities.
 some despatchea to cl!nglsh papers prophecy oeiiou, uprising, and lIut9 if the su.ie!ugs of the poor become great. Such q condition, 1t IS affirmed here. i, would force 10 some sort of an issue tine | graveot problem which has been created | by the modern development of organ iHed labor and organized capital.
 Europe considers this question one which is bound to press for solution in the near future Statesmen and poiiti cal economists of the old World are rather glad that it may reach a critical stage first in America, bat they drcs watching the developments with in tense interest, well knowing that the day may come when they will be face to face with the same trying dilemma.
 It cannot be said that European pulp l lie opinion concerns itself much with the points at issue between the mine operator and the strikers. They are scarcely discussed or mentioned. It is simply d question whether the mems individual legal right to remain idle can be exercised collectively to the point of causing grave disaster, which commands the attention of all classes here.
 It is already evident that any further prol0ngation of the strike will cuuee d serious advance in the price of coal in l England There is little anthracite for export here, not because it does not exist. for there are enormous quantities of it in the ground, but because the demand is small and little of it is mined. It will be impossible to increase the output capacity of the mines under several months. The coal which is being shipped is the so-called hard or smokele,s coal, but it is really the bi- luminous article.
 Some interesting facts in regard to the worlds coal output and the general | d in, hly l.t piled by the British Board of Trade. The production of coal last year in Great Britain was 2l9, 1000 tons; in the United States, 26O, ,929, GOO: m Ger many, los. 4l7, 1000; and in France, 3l, 6lS, 900 tons. The amounts produced in l 1901 were in most cases less than in the preceding year, although the United States continue to increase, and have now for three consecutive yeals eX- ceeded the United Kingdom. The total known production of the world. eX- elusive of brown coal, was was ncar4y 700, 100000 tons.
 Compared with the population the production of Great Britain surpaeses that of the United States. Itamounted to ,j4 tons per head in 1900, and u in 1901, as against 3s for the United States, Germany less than two tons and France about tOur-tifths of ton per head.
 The average value of coal per ton taken out of the collieres of Great Britain was $2.54; Germany, $2. .5: France, S2,92, and the United states, $l.21. These averages in all cases were higher than the preceding year. The rise in Belgium amounted to Sl.O0, in Great Britain to 15 cents and in France to 50 cents. In Germany prices rose only about p cents, and in the United States about II cents.
 A telegram from Swansea says that from inquiries at headquarters it seems likely that shipments of coal from that port to the United States will continue for some time, notwithstanding any possible settlement oi the dispute be- tween the American mine operators and the miners uniun, and that the coal already purchased will be shipped
 in large quanLitles until November.
 Owing to the exports of coal the trade ol the port of swansea this week exceeded all previous records.