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SUPPLY
COAL DURING WAR
Operators Promise to Meet
Nations Demands.
MINERS ARE WORKING TODAY
The New England and North Atlantic
States to be Better Provided With
Coal Next Winter

Philadelphia. May 30.-Bituminous
operators have pledged themselves to
produce an adequate amount of coal
to meet the heavy demand during the
remainder of the war.
Resolutions to this effect were pass
ed just before the close of the conven-
ton of The National Coal association
at the Bellevue tratford.
The +, solutions follow:
'Tlat va. The coal mine owners of
the United States. do pledge and con-
Secr;te ourselves. our plants and orr
organizations to an adequate Pr ~ -
ton of coal and TO subordinate all
other Issue; thereto.
Pc il f.:l!i:pr resolved that we do
urge the pv; pie to unite with us in
this singleness of purpose and to as
sist us in all practical ways to make
this effort Il success.
"Be it further resolved that we, the
representatives of the coal mining in
duStry of the United States, pledge
our continued support to the T. S.
fuel adminiStra yr in his effort to in
crease the rroduc. &n of coal and we
further pledge our energies and our
all 20 aid The president of the United
... 90, 80, II .l;ti.n",- drSu0tiSm and
make the world a safe place to live
in"
Pennsylvania coal miners have been
asked to sacrifice their Memorial dav
holiday. and there is every Indication
that they have complied with the re-
quest. The announcement that Frank
!. HAYES. president of the United Mine
Workers of America. had given ap-
prevail to the plan was greeted with
enthusiastic applause on the part of
the hundreds of delegates present.
The New England and north Allan
tic states will be much better provided
with anthracite coal next winter than
last. according to Joseph B. Dickson
chairman of the anthracite committee
of the federal fuel administration.
Arrangements have been made. Mr..
Dickson said, to bar anthracite from
the states in the Mississippi.
central western and southern terri
tories to provide a substantial increase
of the supply in the sections of the
country where it is most needed.
This increase. he stated. will amount
to l .491 .621 tons for New England and
353S.921 for the Atlantic states. This
will necessarily mean an increased
consumption of Unanimous coal in the
sections from which anthracite is bar
red. and the convention was Informed
by J. u. \. Morrow. director of dis
tribution for the fuel administration.
that 100000 tons of bituminous coal
would be needed TO replace the with
drawn anthracite tonnage.
The increased allotments to New
England and the Atlantic states, Mr.
Dickson said. had been made with re-
gard to their necessities, the larger
population which the war has cOncen-
trated in such sections, their essential
dependence upon anthracite and the
virtual impOssibility of getting bitumi-
nous for their needs.
They represent, he declared, abs
lutely the maximum amounts which
can be given without grave injustice
to people elsewhere in the United
States and Canada, who require an
thracite in substantial amounts.
Shortage of labor will make it i'm
possible for the bituminous mines OF
the country to produce more than 500
100000 tons this year, declared Mr.
Galloway
Adding this to the total of $4,000
600 tons of anthracite coal set as the
limit of production of that grade of
coal. the total production of the coun-
try cannot exceed 679,000,000 tons for
the year, or 100000 tons less than
J. D. A. Morrow told the coal men is
the amount absolutely demanded to
meet the needs of the country. Put
ting the ewo statements together, it
would seem that the country facs an
absolute and certain shortage of S.
1OO0O tons for the current year.