180 THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN. January 22, 1915. CONTENTS. Editorial Articles :— page The West Yorkshire Trouble........... ‘...... 181 The Manufacture of Aniline Dyes ............. 181 Articles Electrification of the Seaham Colliery ...... 175 ' Safety Lamps in Mines ...................... 178 The State of Employment ..................... 179 Labour and Wages ........................... 182 The Limits of Mining Under Heavy Wash....... 187 Pithead Baths at a French Colliery .......... 188 Working of the Coal Mines Act in 1913.........189 The German and Austrian Coal and Iron Trades ... 189 United States Coal Trade in 1914............. 190 Trade and the War............................ 193 Colliery Accidents ......................... ' 194 The Freight Market .......................... 194 Coal Traffic on Railways and Canals in 1913 . 195 Open Contracts............................... 195 Book Notices................................. 196 Coke Production in the United States ........ 196 Abstracts of Patent Specifications Recently Accepted................................... 196 New Patents Connected with the Coal and Iron Trades .................................... 198 Government Publications ..................... 198 Publications Received ...................... 198 Catalogues and Price Lists Received.......... 198 Current Science and Technology................... 179 Notes from the Coalfields ....................... 191 Law Intelligence ................................ 194 Coal, Iron and Engineering Companies ............ 195 The Coal and Iron Trades .................. 183—186 The London Coal Trade ....................... 182 The Tin-plate Trade ......................... 186 The By-Products Trade ....................... 186 Letters to the Editors :— Colliery Owners and Income Tax—Electric Lamps in Coal Mines—Timbering in Mines .......... 190 Miscellanea:— Coal Freights and Prices................... 179 The Anthracite Problem ...................... 194 Almanacks and Calendars — Immingham Coal Exports—Edward Medal Awards—Partnerships Dissolved—Midland Institute of Mining, Civil and Mechanical Engineers .................. 195 Hull Coal Exports .......................... 196 ADVERTISEMENTS. 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Telegrams—“ Osbecks, Newcastle-on-Tyne.” *** For other Miscellaneous Advertisements see Last White Page. AND Journal of the Coal Irca Trastes. Joint Editors— J. V. ELSDEN, D.Sc. (Lond.), F.G.S. HUBERT GREENWELL, F.S.S., Assoc.M.I.M.E. LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1915. The London coal trade continues brisk. There is a considerable shortage at all the wharves and depots, and particularly a shortage of men to deal with the deliveries. The railway companies are bringing forward supplies with greater regularity, but the diminished output and the difficulty in delivery is keeping prices high. Freights and tonnage difficulties continue to dominate the exporting position. Bates have now mounted to such a height that business is prac- tically stagnant, and possibly for this reason, and also because public indignation has been roused, a decline is not improbable. Shortage of labour, due to the number of men serving their country, is having a serious effect upon the output and supplies everywhere are scanty. The Tyne and Wear prompt markets have been influenced by the freight situation, and only the very urgent business has been dealt with. Throughout Lancashire, Derby- shire and Yorkshire the demand is in excess of supply. The market in the West Biding has experienced a very active enquiry, probably on account of the threatened strike. Traffic dislocation is still very great in these areas. The Cardiff position has shown very little change during the past week ; tonnage is again unsatisfactory, and the collieries have bad to work irregularly. The firm tendency of the Scottish market continues, and prices have advanced. A meeting of the Midland Institute of Mining, Civil and Mechanical Engineers will be held at Doncaster to-morrow (Saturday). The meeting of the North Staffordshire Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, which was to have been held on Monday last, has been postponed until Monday next, the 25th. It is announced that the new rescue station to form part of the equipment of the lieriot-Watt College will be formally opened on February 24 by Lord Provost Inches. For the purpose of husbanding the financial resources of the country the Government have decided that no new issues of capital during the war can be made without the sanction of the Treasury. An explosion, involving the loss of nine lives, occurred on Sunday evening last at Halmerend, North Staffordshire, in the Minnie pit of the Midland Coal, Coke and Iron Company Limited. As yet the cause of the disaster remains obscure. ' The inquest was formally opened on Wednesday, and adjourned till Thursday, the 28th inst. For the present, the pit has been closed down. A conference of the principal gas undertakings in Scotland on Wednesday decided to approach the Government for the suspension of the Coal Mines Eight Hours Act, 1968, in order to relieve the present serious delays in the delivery of coal for gasworks. This delay is said to be chiefly due to shortage of labour at the pits, so many men having enlisted with the Colours.