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Show torb the committoa haa flgurea bhow-Inr bhow-Inr thai a fundamental fai tor haa beon an alvani-b of botweon 100 and lbO por crnt ainro 191 In frelitht raloa, tha advanro averaging: 1 a ton. Roaldoa tho frolKht advanr as a factor In an Incroaaod prloo to th con-aiimor. con-aiimor. J. D A. Morrow, rlro proaldont of tha National Coal aaaorlatlon. haa Informed tli comraittoa that tha ad -viAro In minora' wagon have Incroaaod labor coata at loaat 100 por rent nlnra 11. roproaontlnn about Jl. 70 a ton in tha production coata. PROFITS FROM COAL MUG FIGURED A115JTONT Association Compares Estimate Esti-mate With Calculation as High as 200 Per Cent WASHINGTON, March T. The National Na-tional Coal association aaya the low average profit of oltumlnous operators in the various fields its contrasted with the extravagant profit broadly attributed attrib-uted to thi Industry as a whole la effectively -shown In the mass of data now before the senate committee on manufaciurea, investigating the coal j Indus) ry. , !ata from mine records ahow aver- age return on Invested capital of per- ating companies reporting to the aa- . social1 Ion, covering the period from January 1 to October 1 last year, waa1 n il per cent, as against calculations running as high as ;'t0 per cent given hv David I Wing, statistician of the federal trade commlaaion. i K i ii res were from reports of 47f producing companies In various district., dis-trict., on the basis of Vnlted Htatea treasury calculations the yshow 65 per cent of the tonnage put out by 1 companies yielded from leaa than I per cent to ro per cent on Invested cs pita! pi-ta! : ?:.OOO,O0f tons put out by lit companies com-panies (total output of 7f companies being about 1 0O.0ttf.OOO ton yielded from ?o pr cent to 4f per cent- and fortv-four companies with but Z.v2.-I0 Z.v2.-I0 tonnage made profits of lfO cent or over. Forty companlea with 3..7T lit tonnage operated at an average aver-age losg of J.fcO per cent on invested capital. companies making the higher returns, re-turns, it was explained, operated mines 1 hat ordinarily run only during a shortage and whose output constitutes merely reserve supply. Furthermore, the committee was advised that out of the return as reported there must be deducted heavy charge for Interest on iMirrowed money and Income and excess ex-cess profits taxes, so that the actual net return would be much leaa ln-der ln-der the treasury department's method of calculation these deduction do not appear In operators' return. In attempting to account for discrepancy dis-crepancy between the average selling pries at mtneg last year if 3 47 and the price paid by the ultimate consumer, the senate committee haa examined a number of opcratora. wholesalers and others, to determine at exactly what points higher charges hav been tacked on to the product. From the opera |