PULVERISED COAL

Taranaki Daily News, 12 October 1929, Page 19 (Supplement)

PULVERISED COAL

FUEL FOR STEAMERS. Success with the use of pulverised coal as a fuel for steamers is assured, according to Mr. Robert F. Bell, overseas representative in New York for the National Union of Seamen, who was a passenger to Auckland by the Niagara. “There have been some splendid demonstrations in the use of pulverised coal in Great Britain,” said Mr, Bell, “and now that the Admiralty has taken it up it is hoped that shipping companies will use it extensively.” It is fully expected, says Mr. Bell, that when pulverised coal becomes widely used, mines all over Great Britain will reopen, and give employment to thousands of workless men. Not only the mining of the coal, but also the industries that can be founded from the by-products will absorb numbers of the unemployed. Communism, Mr. Bell declares, is dead. “Their object was to destroy everything,” he said, “and they have destroyed nothing more effectively than themselves. In America we have never encouraged them, and no doubt, in their eyes, we are the worst people in existence. We are quite satisfied with the honour.” “Trade union movements are settling down, ai.d the miners have dropped the Communists. They have even, disgusted the Soviet,” said Mr. Bell, “who were undoubtedly at the bottom of it. . they engineered it, and they have paid foi it? ..