Mining Association of Great Britain will be ready with its
national scheme for co-ordinating district coal marketing schemes by the date fixed by the Board of Trade— October 15th. The scheme, it is said, will not interfere in any way with the district agreements except in preventing competition between districts. The quotas to be allowed by the National Executive will be determined by the requirements of the districts as estimated by the districts themselves. It is stated that the anthracite coal-field of South Wales will be brought within the scope of the Marketing Association. Many coal-owners seem to he depressed by the fact that they cannot, as they say, "control export prices." Of course they cannot. This is the task of international regulation which might develop faster if the coal-owners would do their best to help it forward.
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