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Show COAL MINERS POT BMW WORK LONDON'. Jan. SI. Put on their mettle by the prospect of sliding scale bonuses fur Increased production, produc-tion, the coal miners of Britain have put their backs Into the work, and achieved a record postwar output of S.SOT.000 ton for one week. As a result their pay will be Increased by about 1 2 T0 000.000 in the coming year. rive week were selected by th government a a teat period aa pari of the recent coal strike settlement The miners were told that If the produced between 16S.000.0O0 anil :.'(.'. 000. 0'K tons In a year of fifty weeks they would get an extra three shillings and sixpence a day (normally (nor-mally equivalent to about 7 cents! from January S. 121. and that when their output reached ;. 000,000 ton tbev would get four shillings nominally nomi-nally about a dollar a day. extra. At their latest rale, they are producing pro-ducing at the rate of J'.. 150.000 tons a year; Just under the four shilling mark. In HIS. Brltain'a coal output was 2R7.000.ooo tons, but during the war this figure waa reduced by over S0.-000.000 S0.-000.000 tons. Householders are being told that the Increaae In miners' wages will Inevitably raise retail prices, because the government relied on continued big selling prices for export coal to meet the advance In wages. Now. however. America ha come Into the market and. according to the Coal owners' association, French, Italian and Mouth American consumer consum-er will refuse to continue paying the "mgh British rates. Thla assertion la however, flatly contradicted by an authority In the labortte Daily Herald, who holds that there Is no likelihood of export coal prices falling, and that apparently the consumer ia about to be fleeced in or-I or-I der to keep up mine owners' profits. |