SUBSTANTIAL DROP IN BRITISH COAL PRODUCTION
(Rec. 8 a.m.) LONDON, August 20. Britain’s average weekly output of saleable, mined coal was nearly 600,000 tons lower in July than in June. The output in the week ended August 9 was more than 1,000,000 tons below the corresponding week in July. The Ministry of . Fuel and Rower says that annual holidays caused the decline. Colliery wageearners increased by only 800 in July against 2,400 in June. The number of wage earners has actually fallen from 719.300 to 718,800 since July 26. The overall output per man shift on August 9 was 0.98 tons against 1.08 a month previously. The output per man shift at the, coal face was July, 1947, 2.86 tons; June, 2.87 tons;,July, 1946, 2.73 tons. Absenteeism in July was 10.53 per cent, of all workers, against 9.78 in June and 15.26 in July, 1946. 'i he average weekly coal cohsumption figures were—3.093,000 tons in July, compared with 3,322,000 tons in June, and 3,275,000 tous in July, 1946. Distributed; coal stocks totalled 11,- ' 985,000 tons in July, against 10,544.000 tons in June and 9,438,000 tons in July, 1946.
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Evening Star, Issue 26185, 21 August 1947, Page 7
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188SUBSTANTIAL DROP IN BRITISH COAL PRODUCTION Evening Star, Issue 26185, 21 August 1947, Page 7
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