Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-03-03
America Could Well Afford to
Export Even Great Ton.
mage Asserts Official
"WORLD.WIDE SHORTAGE OF
62,000,0 900 TOMS" HE SAYS
All Europe Demanding Coal;
We are Not Injuring Home
Consumers BY Supplying 1t,
Declares Witness

Washington (SpeciaD. - American
coal prp,l;Ircrs, seeking to relieve
Worldwide shortage. are not sending
coal abroad i'll sufficient volume to de-
priVc the American consumer, i'll the
opinion of III. V saint, head Of the
Shipping boards export department,
witness before the Senate sub-cOmmit
tee conductin" an inquiry into the Goa
situation. healed by Senator Freilins
EuySen of New Jersey.
Mr. Saint submitted to the commit
tee the Shipping Boards official esti
mate of the extent of the Worldwide
coal shortage, totaling 60, 900 tons
most of which, if made ny, he said
"prcSumabiy must be made up by tht
United States" Exclusive of ship
nIEntS To Canada, the United States Is
exporting coal, he said, at the rate OF
about 100000 tons Il year. This is 4
little more than one per cent OF the
total amount of bituminOuS coal pro
fuceG in the country for year.
According to Mr. Saints figures Can
ada will need about 16,S32,O0O tons
France. 11,O0O,OnO tons; Belgium, II,
noO.OOu tons, which may be reduced
!aier as Belgium is rapidly restoring
iipi. mines; the Netherlands, S,OOO,OO(
toms: china, 3,135,00O tons; Italy, 3,
100000 tons; Sweden, Norway anG
other countries, many millions more
To help supply the needs Of these and
other countries, Mr. Saint stated, the
shipping Board had allocated to tho
cal trade 194 American ships of 929,
jot lightweight tons as follows:
In the Swedish trade, S5,111 tons; II
Switzerland and the Netherlands, 23:i.
~, TONS; 70 Denmark, 1000 tons
Itnly, 1O3,503 tons: France, 1885,
tens; South America, 2OI,512 tons
There was included in these figures
he said, 103,66l tons in the coastwis,
" New England trade, which woulG
haze 10 be deducted from the total ton
mage, leaving approximately S2S,OG'
tnIls engaged in the overseas tranSpOr
t;ltiOn of coal.
These figures represented only Ship
ping Board vessels, he said, or about
thirty per cent of the total.
1.-THE export coal trade so far this
wear" Nh Saint said, "iS running
little behind the export trade of last
year. owing TO the dropping down OF
The Canadian trade. But the foreign
trade has Increased over last year. T.!
the time this year is up we will have
exported, think, about 100000 TONS
so great was the dearth of coal
abroad, Mr.. Saint asserted, that de-
mand had come from practically ever%
European country, including the Brit,
g. -, III
porting nation of the world. Eng
lands inability to produce coal in pre-
war quantities, he thought, was pr-
marily responsible for the increased
demand on the bituminOus coal pro
ducers of the United States.
Her export have dropped from IT,,
100000 tons of coal year, he said,
''tO 23.000,O00 tons. It was the under
standing that England was TO take
care of the Italian situation. / believe
that conclusion was reached IT, Pari
during the economic conference there
Bat England has radically failed tt
take care of the Italian situation. Ital
ian imports of coal before the wal
were 10.0G0,0O0 tons annually. Las
year England sent Italy 4,O0O,0OO tom
and this year, up to date, she is dom:
very little better. This leaves from
4.U0O.0O0 to 100000 tons to be sup
piled Italy by other nations and we are
practically the only nation that can
supply her that COAL
Are We relieving England at our
eXpenSe?" Senator Frelinghuysen
asked.
If YOU mean expense in the sense OF
taking coal that should go to our OWL
people, replied Mr.. Saint, II do noi
believe that sufficient coal is gon.
abroad to particularly injure our do
nestle situation. II you look at ou
foreign shipments as development OF
q legitimate foreign trade, which will
mean a very great deal TO this country
in future years, / think we can We'll
send what are are sending now. and
considerably more, abroad at this
fine"
Mr. Saint said "wc are trying 10 dis
tribute our tonnage eQuitably among
the countries that need coal"
FOR limited amount