Show NO WARRANT FOR INCREASE IN COAL COALSO So Says United Stat States s Commission Commission Com Corn mission in Reviewing vi ving F ti t l. l u V J Washington n April 10 United 11 States bituminous V co coat coal t commission which settled the tho dispute bet between e ri soft coal miners and operators tors d declared Jn In Ina n na a formal statement today that present present present pres pres- ent prices of ot bituminous coal wore In Inexcusable Inexcusable In- In excusable o and out of ot all relation to tho the increase of ot cost of ot production caused by higher wages oases granted by bythe bythe bythe the V commission Declaring Declaring- that the tho present rise in prices could not not be bo attributed to the campaign campaign for tor or early buying tho the commissions commission's com corn missions mission's statement said there were various causes for tho the temporary upward upward upward up up- ward trend Including Including- widespread feeling feel feel- ing that there night ht be a scarcity of ot coal for tor domestic use due to foreign d demand em and There seems scorns also to bo bc a misapprehension hension In regard ard to production tho the statement ad added co The weekly reports ot of tho the geological survey BUr show that In tho the first quarter of ot the present year ear our OUI production was decidedly In excess of or the production last year car and slightlY slight slight- ly In excess of ot the production under high pressure In iii 1918 There Thero Is Is therefore there there- fore no reason based on the tho past few months for tor the skyrocketing of prices Tho The fear of or Immediate suffering from rom car shortage e seems also tb in the tho reasons for tor the tho flurry There were sufficient cars and motive power to distribute this unusual production of ot tho past few months on account of ot careful and energetic car distribution These cars and motive mothe power are practically pra tI all all available a and while there Is definite need for more of both in order to stabilize the Industry there Is no Immediate serious threat of ot a car shortage such as has not existed dring dur dur- ing tho the winter unless it Is necessary b by the emergencies to devote coal cars care for other purposes s W Women Will Be Asked sl V To Give ive Evide Evidence PIttsburg Kan Ran April 10 With With the resumption of the Investigation In of the coal industry by the court of or In industrial Indus indus- us- us trial relations hero today It was an annoUnced an- an flounced by Judge W W. L. L Ins Hur that It is hoped wives ot of the miners will respond to lo the courts court's request request and testify tes te- tes- tes as is to homo home and school conditions The women will not be subpoenaed but are asker asked to testify voluntarily Approximately 1000 miners miner of ot district No 14 14 United Mine Workers 1 of America refused to work toda today following the tho Incarceration for contempt con con- tempt of or President Alexander Howat vice President Au August rust Dorch Dorchy Secre Secre- tary Thomas Harvey and Auditor R n. B B. Foster of or the miners Forty mines more mono than half hull of or the total In the triet are arc closed as 19 a n result |