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BRITISH COAL AND STRIKES.

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BRITISH COAL AND STRIKES. '{Chose responsible for fomenting coal strikes in ;this country should read the following extract from ^tbe report of Consul Ward at Bordeaux: The total 'importations of British coal to Boideaux in 1895 458,444 tons, as against 417,430 ton? in the previous year, an increase, therefore, of 41,014 tons- Of these importations the French railway coinpajiies at Bordeaux took last year 70,000 tons, while in 1894 they had only taken 17,000 tons. The remainder was, as usual, imported for household or lip riai use. The fact that there were no very pro- ledor serious strikes in the United Kingdom in Ig95, and the niaintennuce of, prices conscqneni lv at a sufficiently low figure for attracting particularly the simdler consumers, had a favourable effect upon -the import trade to this port, in British coal last Veer. It is, however, only private custom yvhicli now ran be taken into account, by. those who supply j>ritish coal for use in France, as the various Government works are obliged to use French coal, whatever may be the difference in their price. So long a& strikes in the coal industry at home and t lie .consequent sudden rise in prices can be avoided, 'there is, in spite of the increasing demand for French coal at this port, every probability of the trade in British coal with Bordeaux continuing to prosper and increase. But wherever French coals be usied economically (by private consumers), the lightest interruption in the supply or in the regular prices of the British products, such as is caused by strikes at home, at once brings the French product to the front. It must be remembered tJmt the French mines are now better fitted than formerly for producing larger quantities and for continuing their arrangements for greater output if required, and also that there are several districts in France -yjjiqh now produce really gaod coal -'so tliat alto- etj/er. it is becoming more and more diflicult t(? cb»DSe a Purchaser's opinion, who may for one geaeon or the other havo taken to the use of French s co5 of good quality.

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