Republican farmer., 1920-07-30
THE FARMER: FRIDAY. JULY 30, 1920
NEW ENGLAND's COAL FAMINE

NEW ENGI4AND's COAL FAMINE MESS THE New England obtain quick and V effective relief from the Interstate Commerce Com mission to the present congestion history It will be and more dangerous than during the war"
 This is the declaration governors New Eng land states by the committee raised by them to inquire into coal supply.
 The railroad congestion complicated another tor With all the difficulties that hamper railroad transport enough coal to Hampton Roads to supply New England Hampton great distributing center for New England coal.
 The coal that to Hampton Roads longer to New England loaded into foreign boos largely British bottoms, for exports to the entire world
 Through Hampton Roads in the month of April 192O passed 9o1 ,452 tons of export coal:
 More than 100000 tons went to Italy In Messagero the leading of Rome for June 920 appeared this typical British advertisement of coal:
 AMERICAN COAL
 The Coliery Investment Trust Limited, Colliery
 Proprietors of London, Swansea, Paris New York
 prepared contract for ten million tons of Amer
 Coal, deliveries to commence immediately.
 "Our public utilities industries whose approaching the exhaustion point and whose contracts made earlier the year prices ARE NOT CARRIED OUT within the last week ten have been obliged to buy coal at from SIS to $23 on.'
 Hampton Roads, but there is price at which England buy Foreign bottoms backed with money foreign governments bid for the coal outbid ding any price which New England can
 Thus few mine taking advantage of the foreign market extraordinary and criminal prof while the duy of their country angushes and their countrymen su fer many sorts of inconvenience.
 These coal companies members of the National Coal ASSOclatOn, and large offices in with branches In other cities.
 Ever since the operators began making these profits coal they have been persistent to throw dust the of the officials Washington sand the the public by activity Washington outpourng misleading statements in newspapers and other pubca tons"
 The president of the National Coal Associations made ; annual address at Atlantic City on May 25, 1920.
 He said Unce Sam must be pred out of the coal busi ness"
 At the fell pleasurably the of New England who have for the most part learned that business must have today large supervision by central authority.
 times when it is necessary to the whole country and the whole world rather than multitude of rate and unrelated parts.
 The critical conditions the appalling operators compelled certain appreciation of the point be pred of the coal busi ultra conservaives investigated for the six New England the of coal scarcity and the of the exorbant price of coal
 We favor" says the committee ia minimum of govern consistent with the protection of citizens Operators Association had been playing ai with people they might be entitled to their effort but their selfish course seems to make neces Uncle Sam who has been trying to get out of the business back into at least to the extent to protect people of this country I England governors and their committee informed in the domain of economies they will knov that two enterprises in this country which Uncl :, Sam go into and get out of s The railroads be naonalzed. They will never until they The coal mines must be nationalized fairly and reasonably distributed again while is controe . by private persons.
 Railroads the bottom of all American in dustry England cannot exist manufacturing people under which pertain railroads and coal ply New Englands well being requires government railroad and government coal.
 e It will be supply of coal is ample. Tha
 delinquency of labor is not element The workers hay forty millions tons than they put above groun in 1919 and would have mined more were the means cor venent to move it.
 The failure is in the leadership country
 t do nof nncton in coal operators who are robbing mar md