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Coal. The production of coal and its value in the four divisions of the United 

 Kingdom in 1910 is given in Table XVIII. 



Table XVIII. Coal Productions, igio. 



Table XIX shows the coal production and value for the chief producing counties of Eng- 

 land and Wales. 



Table XIX. Counties Producing Coal, IQIO. 



Coal was exported from the United Kingdom to the amount of 62,000,000 tons in 1910 

 and 64,600,000 in 1911; while in addition 19,525,000 tons in 1910, and 19,264,000 in 1911, 

 were shipped on steamers engaged in foreign trade. Table XX shows the chief receiving 

 countries. 



Table XX. Countries Receiving British Coal. 



A national strike of miners lasted from March i to April 6,1912 (see under History 

 above). The following report from the northern coal-fields may be taken as an illustra- 

 tion of some of its effects. The Northumberland Miners' Association disbursed in strike 

 pay 156,000, its total funds, including investments from which it had been deriving 

 4000 annually in interest. The funds of the Durham Miners' Association, amounting 

 to over 400,000, were also seriously depleted. The loss to colliery owners and to 

 trades dependent on coal supplies was enormous. This strike occurred during a period 

 of prosperity. Northumberland miners' wages in August 1912 were 36 per cent above 

 the 1879 basis the highest recorded for many years previously. 



In the week ending July 13, 1912, the King and Queen travelled in the West Riding 

 of Yorkshire to inspect the social and industrial life of the people, including Halifax, 

 Huddersfield, Rotherham, and many colliery centres, among them Cadeby Colliery, 

 Conisborough, which they visited on hearing of a series of explosions which occurred on 

 July 9, 1912, resulting in the loss of 86 lives. Among those killed were Mr. W. H. Pick- 

 ering, chief inspector of mines for Yorkshire, Mr. H. R. Hewitt, government inspector 

 for Sheffield, and Mr. J. Y. Tickle, government inspector of Doncaster^ 



