Show I COMPLAINT MADE BY RETAIL COAL MEN l Chicago o Jan 3 N. N. N IL II Kendall endall commissioner commissioner com com- missioner for tho Chicago o Coal Merchants Merchants' Mer Mor- chants' chants association composed of more than 00 retail dealers who distribute 90 per cent of at tho fuel used In Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago and vicinity today sent a long IonS telegram to President Wilson complaining complaining com com- that their present gross ross marI mar mar- gin sin of or profit under which they have havo been operating since sinco June Junc InS 1918 Is in- in to meet tho the Increased cost of at conducting their business at a a. fair tall profit and requesting that a federal official bo be designated to Investigate ale the entire question of or retail prices They char charge chargo o that under present conditions con con- both Attorney General Palmer I and Director of at Railroad road limes Hines have refused to consider the tho complaints of at I tho the retail coal dealers lers It Is asserted I that tho the wages paid teamsters by reI rc- rc I tillers tailors have hoe Increased from tram re-I re to a day since June 1915 and t tha a the tho cost of ot other labor has meru proportionately proportionate 1 |