Evening star., 1923-02-08
CANADA MAY BUY
COAL FROM WALES
Fuel From u. S. Now Facing
Competition-0ther News
in Business World.
BY j. C. ROYLE.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
! NEW YORK, February S.-Canada has
declared an open market for Welsh
| coal. Even IL the price is highe"
| than that Of the American product,
Welsh coal will be given precedence.
! This step, according to authorities
| today who are in close touch with the
Canadian situation, was taken with
the view OF tempering the relation \
| concerning coal between the Unite6
States and Canada and the suspicio
! in the minds of Americans that
! Canada has been too lavishly supplied
with American anthracite
Two large Welsh mine owners now
/ are in Canada investigating the pos
| sibility of establishing a permanent.
market for Welsh coal in the eastern
part of the dominion Their tentative
| plan is to ship the coal from South
Wales ports to depots in st. Johns
and Montreal, from whence it will be
distributed to other points The
1 question at issue according 10 Can
adam dealers is efficiency OF handling
| In order to permit a price some " here
| near quotations for American coal
| Move May Start Competition.
The brittle character of the WeIsc
coal; which makes it likely TO arrive
IN the bins of the consumer in the
| FORM OF dust, has prejudiced the
canadian user in favor of the Penn
sylvania product. but 1t is felt in Mon
| treal. Quebec and Toronto that the
| introduction of Welsh coal will WORK
to the advantage OF the consumer b..
Starting some healthy competition.
! Coal prices today in Canada are
| rulnous, according to manufacturers
| and dealers across the border. and
high prices are predicted. Selling Of
| American anthracite, they said is II
| the hands OF dealers who have Ger
| tain long established privileges and
under such arrangements that the,
! Canadian public constantly faces pos
| sibilities of fuel famine.
I American anthracite operators de
! clared today that even should the
\ Welsh coal be handled at a price TO
compare with Pennsylvania anthra
| cite 1t would be many years before
| the Canadians would accustom them
selves to the use OF other than Amer
can fuel Canadian Fuel COMMISSIONS
Magrath said today in regard I"
| charges that Canada had been give
| precedence in coal shipments this
winter. that the Dominion had been
| treated exactly as If she were stat
Of the Union.
! 1t was regarded as certainty in the
\
public will have TO dig it's hands deepc,
! into its pockets for hand coverings thls
/ year than last Glove prices are on thei
/ upgrade American manufacturers have
signed a wage agreement with their EN-
ployes which they said today would
| necessitate an increase of 81 to s1.5r
per dozen in the wholesale price. The
added that increased cost of goat ano
kid skins and glazed kid would require
an additional increase Of s1.50 to s3
dozen.
| No important price changes are eA-
\ pected in shoes, however The relation
| between hide and leather prices and
| between leather and finished products in
| the shoe trade have been fairly well
| stabilized. Shoe production promises to
establish a new record this year and
/ makers of medium priced lines are work
ing three eight-hour shifts with produl-
| tion booked well ahead.
! Cuban Sugar Mills Active.
| Both raw and refined sugars are
| showing strength in this market, due
not only to domestic but to foreign buy
/ ing. Extreme advances from present
| price levels are not expected by these
! in close touch with the market a during
/ the next month, Cuban production will
| be at its height. There are now l6l
! sugar centrals in operation on the is
land and these mills represent 95 per
| cent of estimated Cuban production. Al
| this time last year only 119 mills were
! grinding.