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Show PARLEYS AT STANDSTILL; COAL FAMINE LOOMING BLOCK III COIFEREMGE IS UNBROKEN I Fuel Administrator Garfield Gar-field Warns Owners and Miners That Public Pub-lic Must Be Protected. Hscussions to Continue Today; I n c r e a s ing-ted: IfllVliuv I 7 More Diggers Quit. SB SGTOX, Nov. Prosoe -t of j i r'amiae dreiv nearer :on:g ... station! between operators and ' - A sobcowaittee of tae-ioint was. seal. r plum i discussed the genera) , m tar Dine hours, b :: .is -mi Hjpntors did not s . J Kncew.U continue " s ' Mi L Levis, acting p"ei de:.: tirit Jl.e Workers, f lie jera'.ors' co: - ' jsHEM. 2 -OUT !o:e nsiars' committee in the central com- i ' pecve field, spoke op::-: He Uffrtuii since the miners and opera- 1 lg Bl deciiiOQ of the i 1 e - L'nn t. continue its negoi .it ions pogii a smaller group am. after the ; t.-s and workers hau heard from Fuel I I Mbistrator Garfield that as lone as j : . f the j M S ates need, must have ana w i'.l i7t coal and titey - -nted ( Jan'iirs the operators ar.d ml 'i7 Jo." - - - - . ft Wilson's cabinet. Fuel Administrate Administra-te .iat!ves of the bi-, bi-, tinous coal operators and miners here j 1 py that "the peV-ple cited i Pi" - : as long a lite government j -i: ; " ; - nted from it -by atiyti: -. mut aiay do." PRESENTS PEOPLE. JCARFIELD DECLARES. ' 'm?' arflcl 3 explained that his pu . furnish tiie conference with the j r- ? Wnic:i be would use in deterr:. i rV'2'-'- " any. agreed to , aj gy operators and ir.ir.'-rs. could be , fj ae properly r the pu i Present the people of the V I s in a different sense from the sec-prof sec-prof labor. Dr. Garfield "I- is I :: 5 " to effect SSL ?' Jt 18 n function to w t.iose powei3 couTfrf-d on the ! unmist ration: to see that an ade- fT'iv of roal is furnished the peo- I t- the L'nited States, and to zcz that j fcrc of stress, s : : as we are still 1 P?:!y m the midst of. the prices i and received for coal arc not ex- : the grpat I tw iry the P'10lic i?! an important j le t one time the operators and j r . s. hi fan ei cons dered j V JpJ-icullariy independent. But yy wm. oas a paramount interest. jANXOT CONSENT TO A3 EXCESSIVE PRICE. "' State, will i "v to pay an excessive price fori ' 'aw- are a" agreed on tl.at, but) Th .now is- 'V''hat ' an ex-k ex-k Nor wl tho public . , l.lout this commodity ! r L. -P e f :; '' Vn'v 1 Stat. . eed, : Fitot I an'1 wi" have oal. and they SmJ. Jfvnt.-.J by anything the ; A miners may do unless the y Iftloa dissolved into a chaotic H pa' sufnVient m inain'aln y Pit ar. .ndara8' :-" 'l"'-stl -. Pi want .v,merlcan standards?' The j "hi- h, ! v orators to have a just 1 CarfipM at,is a iust return?" Wily hp 1 , at changes could rea- ."the nS.. ' '" lhe Pr,ce cool- as 1 e n"eary data km not yet In l;.''tM i?i,Sfiii.iam " ":' that , Workers. Dr. Oarlield ex-it,. ex-it,. e ,ful administration. In sT' M mL Pr,ce "' '-'oal during the Cle ari allowance of 15 cents l'ilr"" ,herc wa" not time 'm. ami tnl ,lK amination into everv 'lovpH 1 .e ,ame reason 1 nts ' ?rrlns , "joyalty. S. Dr r 15 ce"t allowed for B? " a mo 1 " wa later I .! W3S- "" '' a cage. Ptor ''r-' .m: : ,.f the ! ' on Pe 4, Comnm 2.) DEADLOCK li CONFAB IS YET UNBROKEN (Continued From Page One.) coal industry does not exUt." Dr, Garfield's Gar-field's "impartial figures." he said, "had refuted the reports of enormous profits in the coal business, which." he said,, "had been run on a slender margin." President Lewis said the workers never had alleged that the operators made profits in 19 1 S under government control. "But we have made some remarks about profits in 1919," he said. "We are pre-I pre-I pare! to prove that some concerns have I sold coal at the mines at $3 a ton, $-1 a i ton, yes, and even $1.50 a ton. We are prepared to demonstrate that in 1IH9 the 1 operators have gotten 120 to 125 per cent more for coal than they did in 1914, and that wage Increases to the workers have been only 37 8-10 per cent above 1914 figures, while the cost of living has increased in-creased 110 per cent. That's our situation situa-tion in a nutshell." Suspicious of Partial Figures. Dr. Garfield said he had no complete figures on the 1919 operations and was suspicious of partial figures, but that he did have some data Which showed that in certain fields operators were making less In 1919 than in 1918. "But if that Is true, why is It that the selling price of coal to the consumer has increased $1 a ton this year?" asked Percy Tetiow of the miners. "T do not know as to that," Dr. Garfield Gar-field replied. "But even If tnat is so. does it enter into our problem here, except as it affects the cost of living?" "Well, It's a question of Importance to the consumer," Tetiow returned. "Our figures show that the margin to the retailer re-tailer is more than $2 a ton on coal. It is important that the public be -protected'. We realize that one of the greatest problems is that of the profit that Is added to coal after it leaves the mine, and that the producer is not receiving a fair proportion of what the consumer pays." |
