GREATEST COAL SHORTAGE IN HISTORY.
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The National Coal Association of America has sent out an appeal to the public to buy coal now in anticipation of a country-wide shortage that is likely to send prices up to a prohibitive figure. "The greatest coal shortage in history" is predicted for next winter unless production is stimulated 25 per cent, or more immediately. At the present rate of production, it is said, one industrial plant out of every eight in the United States will have to shut down next winter for lack of coal. For tihe first twenty4'our weeks of 1019 the production of bituminous coal is 65,000,000 short of what it should be to meet the nation's requirements of 530,000,000 tons, according to the statement of the National Coal Association. Various causes are given for the failure of the mines to keep up production, among them the refusal of many miners who were laid off during tihe warm last winter to return and the emigration of thousands of European workmen. Evidence is not wanting of a world-wide shortage of coal because of the extraordinary demands for industrial purposes since the ending of the war. At the present time America is by far the cheapest market in which to buy.
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Northern Advocate, 4 September 1919, Page 4
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