The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-10
COIN PROFITS
IN SCAD COAL
FROM america
Va
100000 Tons Weekly
From West Virginia
BY GORDON CAScAoEN
Especial to The Daily Worker)

against longer nouFSs 9ut Fu%tHSdH
capitalists are particularly HAPPY.
They have good reason.
Coal companies suffering from over
production and railroads with stocks
tumbling are now paying large dNi-
dends as a result of large shipments
Of coal to break the British miners
strike. Business men generally are
getting Increased profits.
soab Coal Boom.
r. q. Dun and company, nationally
known authority on business 'condi-
tons, in discussing Baltimore trade
conditions, predicts that the turnover
for the latter half of 1925 will exceed
the record established by the CORE
spending 1925 period.
Norfolk and Newport News bust
ness reports are even more optimis-
tic. They prove that all previous rec
ords for booms in that community
have been broken.
The shipment of coal to crush the
British mining communities is the rea-
son for all this prosperity"
Crocodile Tears.
Yet the shipment Of this coal to
crush the British mining communities
is responsible for the shedding, by the
Baltimore Sun, of these crocodile
tears"
"Most Americans, regardless OF
whether they are employers or EN-
ployed, will think first of the suffer
ing in the British mining districts
and second of where the deeply in
volved responsibility for that suffer
Ing is located"
This virtuous morning newspaper
has not yet started a campaign to
raise funds to which employers max
ing money out of the suffering in the
British mining districts" might con
tribute conscience money"
Baltimore business men, with rail.
road and coal mine shareholders,
might top the list.
One Month Beats All Last Year.
Coal exports from here last month
according to financial reports, reached
a surprising total" In that one month
they were higher than the total Of all
the shipments during the twelve
months of 1925.
This country, at all times, sends con
siderable coal to other countries.
But in 1925 the total of American
coal exports to Great Britain were
less than 5000 tons. In the first month
of the British strike, Baltimore ship.
ped more than ten times that guam.
tity TO British ports. The June ship
ments of coal from the United States
to Britain reached 465,000 while, &C
cording to a conservative figure, they
rose to 1,S5400O tons during July.
A VuIture Speaks.
The coal business with Britain is
now so extensive that ]. G. Bradley,
president of the West Virginia Coal
Association and past president of the
National Coal Association, made a spe-
cial trip to that country. He has just
returned, according to a New York
newspaper, from a six-weeks stay in
England, where he observed the coal
situation and obtained first-hand in
formation regarding it from distin-
guished sources.
1.-THE force of public opinion" ac-
cording to him. lis largely out of SYM
pathy with the miners" He points
with pride to the American method Of
conducting mine strikes, in separate
districts, one at time, instead Of on
a national scale like that in Britain.
While Bradley talks about the stu
alton overseas, former United States
Senator Clarence w. Watson, head of
the Consolidated Coal company of
Elkins, West Virginia, predicts a
steady increase in the volume Of or
ders during the next month or So"
seab Coal Company Prospers.
The Consolidation company is the
largest producer of soft coal in the
United States. 1t has reserves suffici'
emit for 200 years with production at
the average rate Of 1O,S4O,O0O tons a
year.
Watson and other coal barons are
nightly pleased at tho outlook, for
coal prices are also rising.
At this time Of the year there Is
comparatively light demand for coal
But coal production in Northern West
Virginia reached its peak for the year
during the first week Of August.
II was thought that would end the
rise. But each succeeding week has
seen a breaking Of the previous
weeks record.
3,ooo,o 900 Tons a Week.
More than 1880 railroad cars were
produced in that one section Of West
Virginia in a single day, or at the rate
OF 500. 900 tons a week. This brings
the total output OF West Virginia
mines, in conjunction with the output
OF Southern West Virginia mines up to
a mark not far short Of 100000 tons
n week.
Many companies have actually been
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