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Show Mine Workers Ask Survey of Price Making Coal Commission Requested to Determine Why Railroads Can Buy Cheaper Than Domestic Domes-tic Consumer WASHINGTON. Oct. 1 A com-mitteo com-mitteo representing the -United Mine-workers Mine-workers of America haa filed with the United State coal commission Investigating Inves-tigating the Industry a report containing con-taining comment and suggestions. The document, made public yesterday, la signed by Ellis Searlee. editor of the union's magaalne; John Moore. Its leg-ialatlvo leg-ialatlvo representative, and Thomaa Kennedy, a Pennsylvania district president pres-ident of the organisation, and seeks to lay before the commission the union's Idea of bow It should conduct Its Investigation and the objectives to be obtained. Absentee ownership of coal mining areas, the intrusion of profit taking middlemen In marketing, regulation of coal production, and the survey of transportation and storsge facilities available for coal distribution, the re. port emphasised, should be Investigated Investi-gated by the commission. "The commission, through Its own avenues, should Investigate the extent ex-tent to which absentee ownership prevails pre-vails In the coal industry." the report re-port aald. "We believe this Is an evil that haa jnurb to do with the atralned relatione and unfortunate condition which exist In the Industry. "We believe that the commission should ascertain why It Is that the price of coal to the domeatic con-aumer con-aumer la alwaya higher than the price to the railroads and other large pur rhasera. We believe thla line could be developed If the commission would Inquire In-quire Into railroad contracts and tbe methods by which such contract are made." j |