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Show I THE SUN, PBtnB PAGE BIX MW L PRIP1 nTAH-EVE- RY GANDY TAKES ISSUE WITH THE CUSS HATRED WASHINGTON, T. C., July 6. An attempt to kindle class hatred is charged against the womens bureau if the deimrtment of labor by Harry L. Gaudy, executive secretary B the National Coal association, in a eommunication just sent to Secretary of Labor Davis, Reference is made to n statement issued concerning living conditions in the mining emumunities, which purport to be au analysis of data collected by the United States Coal ciimiuissioii. Interpretation of the data of the commission, which cost the taxiaycrs six hundred thousand dollars ( tore it iassed out of existence in 1923, is solely designed to prejudice public opinion against the ojierators, declares Gandv. Publication of analyses of duta two years old is nothing short of a deliberate effort to provoke class filling without cause 'ir warrant. Such diatrilies explain the nausea of the public, both employer and employe, in resjiect to encroachments in the realm of business of certain prejudiced government officials. It is quite Missible, as the department of labor notes, that in some mining communities there is a shortage of public tarks, rradingrooms, libraries, restrooms and girls clubs. However, actual romjtariann of living conditions in coal mining communities, on the one hand with living conditions in agricultural or industrial communities on the other, greatly favors the homes of miners and reflects credit on the personal efforts of operators to jironmte the well being of the miners. Let me call your attention to the following statement made two months ago by the acting director of the bureau of mines on the occasion of the issuance of an order eliminating the term mining camp from the lexicon of the bureau: The bureau believei the term mining eanip gives the public an entirely incorrect impression of conditions prevailing at points where coal is mined. In other words, that it is not a true picture, inasmuch as established communities, complete and attractive homes with excellent educational facilities and fine sanitary conditions are to lie found where eoal is mined. The operators of this rountry we to be complimented for the real interest and personal concern which they evidence in the physical, intellectual and moral welfare of the miners and their families. JOHN D., JST AND LEWIS IN A NEWSPAPER FIGHT NEW YORK, July 3. On behalf of the Consolidated Coal company and of which he is a big stockholder John D. ltockefeller, Jr., last night made public rorresjiondenee stating that concern's denial of tlie charge of John Is Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, that an ' infamous conspiracy exists among the soft noal o)ierators to destroy the union by abrogating the wage agreement between themselves and miners. In reply to a letter fruin Rockefeller, asking for the facta in the ease, Former United States Senator C. W. Watson, chairman of the hoard of directors of the company, seut Rockefeller a record of eorresiondence with Lewis, setting forth these contentions: That the ronqiany was forced to close its West Virginia mines because, under the wage agreement, it could not produce coal except at a loss. That all other eoiuauies whirh accepted this agreement hare been forced to close and almost the entire output in West Virginia is controlled by mines. That the miners, forced to work in non-unio- n properties or remain idle, have by the thousands deserted the unions and the wage agreement. That under these conditions, the agivement being a collective one, is non-unio- n already destroyed. In his letter, Watson writes to Rockefeller : A state of widespread suffering due to idle mines and idle men did not disturb the officers of the United Mine Workers, nor was aay criticism forthcoming on that score. On the contrary they have that the Consolidated should continue to enforce by the duress of unemployment conditions of work and wages which the union itself hss been unable to maintain over its members. In other words, it has seemed to be Lr win contention that either our men should work under conditions of his choice or they must not be allowed to work at alL PEOPLE Competition Is Needed , Report Declares WASHINGTON, . D. C.f July 5. of more effective Addressing himself to the mineral industry, George Otis Smith, director of the geological survey at Washington, D. C., expresses that bodys appreciation of the assistance given it by the mining fraternity in the past, thus: In the'interest of more etfec-ient of government work on mineral statistics President transferred the bureau Coolidge of mines and the division of mineral resources of the United States geolo-survey from the department of the interior to that of commerce. The work of the division of mineral resources will be continued with little or no change in personnel or policy by a division of the bureau of mines. Although I regret that my official contracts with the mineral industry win bo fewer in number by reason of this change, I am in hearty sympathy in ul 51091 F. O. R PurniLm iim. hntkm Oiiaaal. Body By Every day mankind k w ad by risk of fin, ttefuT do, injury, death and hilir. in the anthracite industry tminM-titio- so the present generation may hare an adequate supply at reasonable cost has been recommended to congress by the federal trade commission in a rejvirt on premium priees of anthracite. The rcNirt, made public tonight, declared that complete restoration of romieti-tio- n in the industry was not only practicable, but preferable to price It set out in detail the regulation. large degree of success whirh has the presistrnt efforts of the department of justice to disintegrate the anthracite combination, which suggested additional step would apjiarently tend to restore the industry to a normal competitive basis, and recommended measures designed to aid in preventing the recurrence of high premium priees in times of actual or anticipating shortThe greatest obstacle to inages. telligent action in the frequently recurring emergencies in eoal trade, aaid the report, is the lark of adequate current information. The premium priees of 1923 were the result of an anticipated shortage and a panic demand due largely to a genfVal ignorance of the real conditions." Publication of the facta at that time by the commission assisted in restoring normal eonditons in the interstate trade, the report stated, and premium prieeti and speculation by wholesalers began to decline when the commission started its publication of such data. The experience led the commission to believe, if the matter was within the legislative power of congress, some federal agency should be directed to assemble to publish curreut data. The commission finds 70 per rent of the eighty-eigmillion tons of anthracite produced annually was mined by eight large companies, whirh are or recently have hien opened or closely affiliated with the railroads, tabling the eoal fields, while the remaining 30 per cent was produced by a hundred indefiendrnt companies. The railroad coal eompaniea were said in the report to have followed a policy of announcing priees periodically, while the independents took the highest price obtainable at the time of the marketing of their products. Failure of the indua-tr- y to increase its mining rapacity to meet increasing demand, the commission asserted, hai resulted in establishment of an undulv high price level and encouraged and facilitated the taking of excessive profits. The high premium prices charged in 1922 were attributed to an artual shortage of coal. The existence of a wide range in the mine priees charged for anthracite in the fall of 1923 enabled wholesalers to exact very large gross profits. In September and October, 1923, the gross realised by wholesalers ranged as high as 1.75 per ton and amounted to a dollar or more on about 4 to 11 per cent of their rejwirted weekly sales. In August, immediately preceding the strike, gross profits ranging as high as f3.R5 per ton were reported. The exhorhitant character of such profits is evident when it is realized that these wholesalers sell in carload lots without physically handling and that even the gross profit allowed during the war was only twenty cents cr ton in the Eastern States. with the object to be attained by the transfer. It gives me pleasure to express my sincere appreciation of the cordial spirit of that has been extended to the geological survey by the many busy men engaged in e this industry during the years in whirh the surrey has been collecting mineral statistirs. I ran wish the new administraton of this imjiortsnt work no better fortune than a continuance of the same spirit, and I bespeak for the department of commerce and the bureau of mines the same wholehearted reforty-thre- sponse to them that has been accorded to the department of the interior and the geological survey. Although this phase of the surveys activities now ceases, it will keep in touch with the mineral industry through its geologies! investigations, and there will be nb change in its desire to serve the industry in any way possible. An important step in the prevention of explosions in coal mines has just been taken by the formulation, effort of all through the interested groups, of a comprehensive code for rockdusting, according to a recent announcement by the American Engineering Standards committee at New York. Catastrophes due to explosions can be prevented by the simple expedient of spreading rock dust thickly enough to cause an incipient coal dnst explosion to die out rather than to travel through the mine atmosphere, jt is declared. The code is now practically completed and it is expected that it will be formally approved and issued in the near future. It prescribes the rockdusting of mines that produce bituminous or lignite, whether gaseous or not, as they are liable to dost explosions. The kind pf dust to be nsed is sped- - W And generally comes when least expect man who takes no ehaBea one who insane him family and all hia r-loaseg. Gtested as & Gteat k against all calamitiesg,' pared for nnfoneen oceans fine manufacture that raised the Chrysler As anticipated the new Chrysler Four is being received with unre- We, who have been in thhw mess many years-- im know exactly what a for your protection and vtan ready to offer it to yon a,, prising ly low cost. Six to its peak of strained enthusiasm. Those who have been fortunate enough toride in the new car declare that never before has there been a four that delivers so much in fine performance, so much in roadability and riding and driving ease. For the Chrysler Four is a true companion to the Chrysler Six. It represents in a very definite and practical sense the application of the same quality and Consequently it is not surprising that the new Chrysler Four is already hailed as the most modem and Equitable Real & soundest contribution to finer motoring. See it ride in it drive it! Call on us we are only too glad to extend you the opportunity to learn at first hand the many advantages of owning a new Chrysler Four. four-cylind- er First ear of it price with the option of hydraulic ft at (tight extra cost. Closed hodie by Fisher. Ob.CU CmHCMdi mud XIm mMrmetiuttj pnad frmm $091 m f 1095, Eg Investment Ct Secoad Flow SUnpl PRICE, UTAH Quality Is No wheel brake Neglected ..k Dana dsilm isi sortor CWniir ssnln smtoSsm. AS inlin an ia Tkm an CWwlififco Ask boy' Chirsisr's I t iwimO wwiisn at rias nris PREPAID I CWntir ht CODE TOR ROCKDUSTING MINES GEORGE OTIS SMITH TELLS OF RECENTLY RECEIVED HIS APPRECIATION Mm INSURANCE on cm no nma ddimtrmd Immnd for mmtymuelfuU factory ktl prica memirnm fn mmd ikmfL Art the shoes of nnanR.il smartness of any DAVIS AUTO AND MACHINE CO. East Bids South Eighth Street costaai I pends in large measun tpal correctness of footwear, Ii PRICE, UTAH yon will find lovely ikon, p fectly styled, to accompujie fied as to its nature, fineness and moisture absorbing qualities, since caking destroys its effectiveness. The parts of the mine to be dusted, the methods of applying the dust and the amounts are indicated. Instructions fur sampling the dust for ina)ieetiwn purposes are given. Supplementary to the code itself, and mentioned because of their immediate relation to the explosion hazard, there are recommended the practice of wetting eoal dust pmdured by machines used in undercutting and that of wetting mine ears in transit by automatic drenching sprays. The technical committee which has formulated the code is made up of representatives of the various national bodies interested, acting under the sjionsorship of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. The grou8 and represented on the committee include state officials having regulatory powers over the field in question, njicrat-orlabor, insertion, insurance and manufacturers of mine equipment and the United States bureau of mines whirh, as a leader in safety work, has made extensive investigations and experiments under the direction of Dr. George S. Rice. The chairman of the Sectional Committee is Howard X. Eavensuu of Philadelphia, Im., a well known consulting engineer and mining expert. lie chargeable against the proceeds of the recent production at lower costs. industry, but will operate only by re- The 5 per rent wage reduction proponducing the wages of the higher paid ed for June 1st haa been poationed in men. order to give an opportunity for e revision convention. BOOZE BRINGS ON VANDALISM The timber sale tret up near Gear IN NOVA SCOTIA Creek on the Manti forest was gone SYDNEY, X. S., July 5. Plentiful- over carefully recently. All the saw ly supplied with liquor seized in a cut by the Utah Fuel company two raid on a customs house vandals have yean ago yet remains piled up m the started anew their depredations in the woods and due to drying out Home o: Caie Breton district, where twelve it ia deterioating through rheeking. thousand United Mine Workers are The queston of better utilization will on strike against the British Empire be gone into with the officers of that Steel company. Incendiarism, looting eoneern in the near future. and assaults, which were stnped for British colliery owners insist that a time with the arrival of five hun- the only way out. of the present crisis dred provincial and dominion tnsiis in the ciihI industry is a lower cost of ami the organization of siecial union production. They desire to arhieve this through a longer working day jHilicc, are again causing concern. 1 ithin the last twenty-fou- r hours than the seven hours that have been three of the comiiany ' buildings have the rule under the present wage agreelieen burned. A hand of crudely mask- ment expiring last June 30th. With a ed men entered the residcuc ol the cheasr product the owners and collector of customs and lorceil him to to be able to compete cxjirct unlock things and carrying away forty-t- more with Continental successfully hree kegs of rum recently seized and American fields, which, they say, In- authorities on the coast. Union of- arc consistently undercutting British ficials have said the plentiful supply otfers. of liquor was in jiart responsible for Here is a quotation from Bulletin the disorders. No. fG8 on Page 4 of the National One Belgian national and his wife Coal association: Let me call your weie at Grare Bay. Houses attention to this statement made tw of strike antagonists wen stoned and months ago by the acting director of windows smashed. The strike started the United States bureau of mines on nearly four months ago when the y the ret used the men a wage increase der occasion of the issuance of an oreliminating the term 'mining and abolished credit at the comiianv Minera Protesting. fnni the lexicon of the bureau: stores. The bureau believes the term minLONDON, July 3. Miners delegates from all the eoal fields of Eng- ABOUT THE CAMPS ing camp gives the public an entirely OP THE BIO iinam-c- t land, meeting in private conference impression of conditions pre- CARBON DISTRICT today, decided to resist mine owners Continued Qn pa. Efoht) proposals for lower wages and to exGne interesting feature of the tend the present seven to an eight coal field here in Utah is a hours day. The various districts will small ana of ranrirl on the north be urged not to depart from the prinfork of the Virgin river. This gives a ciple of national settlement of the high yield of oil and if the difficulties and to accept nothing leu th.n of access to the region can he over-crim- e wages that will meet the increased it will, no doubt, he of considercost of living. The basie principle of able importance. You might as well as to let it the owners new proposal is that the rot while you wait for a new Nineteen bituminous general minimum wage can no longer rouiMnips in the Pittsburg, Kan., district are to binder pact. merge into the Basin Stripping Coal DONT WAIT I HAYS IT WKLDRDI company as soon as valuation of their proiH'rhcs and equiqment is completed. The Basin anticipates a reduction in ents of production averaging fifty .mar frocks. We the! havs the tiny tots and tbs lupr and girls, too shoos is wearing qualities an glacted. Carbon-Emer- Storesb y Hiawatha, Heiner ui W Hiawatha. GEORGE E. HcDEUUH Snporintendsat Best Alin Whart Mont UmA Caal Ill-He- Is yothi s, Would You Burn Your Graint Spring Canyon Coal Co. saws1 ',,is,,,i,iatiou Spring Canyon Coal Mine at SPRING CANTON. UTAH General Offices, 817 Newhoue Building. Salt Lake atp, Utah Mines At Rains, Ci SSS" "in " The outlook for the Belgian coal in- although operators present price represent fog Tlj, eompanies in is expected to rednea production costs and Improve conditions. Slight reductionn the e" .esaive stork ha occurred, but their liquidation presents a seriou finan-ei- al problem, particularly fo riew of BllIRMI-vj'nl,c- . IS Ai lot Utah. Minors and Ship)1 A Lump, Nut, Slack and lanid Sixes of fl, by c COAL I Of the Very High Beat Ter PnrnacoA and AD Other Uses. fleet, Cliff Building, City. W L. F. RAINS GeaorallP ban hi Is B Whan Mat fljr Coal Hi-ne- C tag for tat Your Problem wit doi chi yot We will save you hours and 'veIdinB Your worn and broken machinery An at oncki oxy-acetyle- ne good as new. welded part PRICE WELDING WORKS ! Ant wd Machine Building Wa reader a inf nervlea that I feature of yew how ute more all the fort than the brU-JTand Military hacked hp our lift tu flsure 7 make no mMaho b probr for yon. ' r5 i "'"'ifT V REDPUlHBDiGSSBBf1 ' Price, Utah 18 North Kbrhth PRICE, Jhml f Carbos inv,v"' The Chesterfield Coal which but recently took over company, the mines and equipment of the American Fuel down at Sego together with the railroad running from ThoirqisonH to that camp, has announced million dollars bond issue. promised These will lie sold to raise funds for impmvng the Miners and Shipper pf the Celebrated :c com-jiun- sit-nati- BA nun Ua borrow The Sa L |