4 DECEMBER 1920, Page 3

The Board of Trade figures issued on Wednesday showed that

there had been a "record" increase in the output of coal. The

latest weekly returns are as follows :— Tons.

November 13 .. .. 4,775,600 20 5,210,700

The second figure is far the best for the whole of the past year. If it were maintained the output for a year, according to a calculation in the Daily News, would be 260,535,000 tons. Under the recent settlement miners' wages would at this rate be increased by 3s. 6d. per shift, instead of by the 2s. about which there was so much trouble.