The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-27
AMERICAN COAL IS FOUNDATION OF
 FOREIGN TRADE,
 STATES CUSHING
In Stirring Address Before Civitan Club Director of Coal Association Ex- plains Problems of the
 Coal Industry


 an issue which will exist for perhaps only three months, and not more than six. Coal prices will come down by the 1st of January in all probability; surely high prices will not con- tinue longer than next April. "
 This was the statement made yes terday at noon to the Civitan club by G. H. Cushing, managing director of the American Wholesale Coal as- sociation. He was talking to an au- dience or over 100, many of whom were coal men.
 Nevertheless" said MT. Cushing, this brief and temporary furry in coal is being made the preteXt for con tinued federal control of coal High prices are the excuse whereas the real truth is that war boards and mock war lords who had won a little notori- ety and attention during the war want ed to control coal that they might | continue to DdSk III lne SpOAllShA-
 TWO BIG PROBLEMS Before this he had shown the two big problems in coal--tp keep coal cheaper in A%erica than elsewhere so we could on that cornerstone continue to build a great commercial structure, and to use Americas S coal as the toun- dation of Americas whole export com merce He had said that England coal has been the foundation or Ehg lands whole foreign commerce-her ships are purely incidental NOW Eng land is losing her coal for export. It is now estimated that she will have only 100000 tons for export in ls2o, whereas she had 77,000.0oo tons Tn 1914 This loss of England's foreign coal u ade means a loss of England foothold in the export markets. Natur- ally America must take its place Tn | both particulars. No other nation can take it's place.
 Then he said that America has such cheap power and uses so much of it be- cause it is cheap that America has the greater industrial organization Of the two
 AsCompetitioD is so unequal today that American steel is actually un- 1 derseIlinE English steel in Man- l chester. And American oeal has i been asked for in Dublin" RESPECTS TO HUDDLESTON l At this point MT. Cushing paid his | respects to Congressman Huddlestoh l by saying:
 when these big issues are up foi 1 discussion--when we have to decide l between controlling coal prices toi three or six months and allowing 1 America to fulfill her destiny in coal i Congress goes wild on the price aues- l tion and forgets the other two things MT. Huddleston proposed that the last price fixed by pr. Garfield shoulc be the maximum price for the nex' | five years regardless of cost. Wher asked by his conferees in committed I how he could ask Congress to cruclfS | a trade he said there was a trust IT | bituminous When called upon to SUD 1 stantiate his charge before grand Jury he said that all he knew about IL Was | what he had read in the newspapers
 .sWhen | heard his grave charge | and knew how little there was be-
 pbind it, wondered what maiiEn
 nroyidcnce had induced the people l of Birmingham to select Huddles- ;, ton as their representatives"
 MT. Cushing concluded his address b, an amazing exposition or the iapol clause in the peace treaty; condemned l the actions of unions in three receh demands and ended with:
 .When such things occur ana "hef inc supremacy of the government Il
 thus challenged without response o | without asserting itself, it is for yo' and me to ask whether we have an! 1 government.