Show oo r n nUGA UGA I Surprising Figures Are Quoted by by Economist for Rail Unions Say Says Cents Fair Price Pe W WASHINGTON rON j f May 13 13 1 v I Sugar ugar should sell en 2 cents cents a pound and prices present rIces I ranging from 20 to 25 are are due to profiteering V. V. Jett Lauck consulting econ economist list 1st of ot th the railroad brotherhoods told Id the railroad labor board boar toda today Sugar gougers Will cill exact a total of the from American peo peo- PI t c Wb who su boar oard ty gr me men I II wage increases s. s INCOME TAX FIGURES Income la es es for 1917 sh show w that sugar P producers Od ers had earn earned earnd d p per pr percent r cent on th capital stock per cent centon centon centon on capita invested capital Invested and per cent centon centon on tHeIr actually invested after all J were deducted he said Can Cano tai producers earned 2728 percent per percent cent p c pital stock on capital actu actually lly Ste invested and and on capital capital cap cap- ital after aCter ta es according to Lauck who said sugar W was s then sellIng selling selling sell sell- ing for 7 7 71 7 cents a pound lf Jf the producers showed such amazIng amazIng Ing ng earnings then said Lauck what mu must t b be their earnings today wS h sugar hovering about 25 cents a apo apo po pound nd PROFITS f twelve Taking Taking twelve twelve of th the argest ugar producers Lauck showed that the average av ay- ay- ay net Income for tor p period of ot 1914 1912 was or or a re return return re- re turn tUri T of f about 6 per per cent on on their claimed capitalization I II A study of ot financial Returns of I sugar corporations merely serves to confirm th conclusion slon that they took tool II a advantage ath-antage vantage of the war situation to toad adVance ad- ad vance th the price as' as prO tits its and ando de decrease decrease de- de crease the prop proportion ta taken n. n by y lab labor i as wages he said I de-I HUGE INCREASES INCREASES' SES Lauck i k declare declared th the net Income of ot the American Sugar Refining company com company com coth- pany Increased from the 1914 1912 pe period perl pe pe- i rl nod d' d to the h he 1918 1916 period perlo from 3 3 to Other sugar companies companies com corn which named he-named as made huge increases esin in net were the Oahu Sugar company the Pioneer Mill l company the Utah Idaho Sug Sugar r comp company com corn p pany ny th the Agricultural c company com com- m- m pany the American Beet Sugar company company com com- p pany n the th Hawaiian Commercial and andS S Sugar gar company the Ewa Plantation comp company ny the South POr Porto Q Rico Sug Sugar r company compan the Guantanamo Sugar company company com corn pany the Cuban American Sugar company corn com pany and the Central Aguirre Sugar Sigar company Lb |