Show COPPE COPPER PRICE FIXED BEFORE DATE OF CONFERENCE Producers Feel That They Tey Were Shown Scant Courtesy Courtesy Courtesy Cour Cour- tesy by War Board We understand that the conference lit la Washington before the price fixing corn com of the war Ind industries us tries board with 1 tb I regard to the lar price of copper was al at atI times rather a peppery affair and W tC te I say that the copper people feel they were shown scant cat courtesy Is to put it mildly says the Boston News Bureau What Wh perhaps irritates them more than anything else else is to be told that the price had been fixed by the committee before the copper men summoned from all aU parts part of the country had arrived In other words the inference was that In in star stir chamber proceedings before a hearing hering on the merits of the question queston before the She evidence was in the case had been prejudiced and decided t We Ve understand that nl ni the course coure of the proceedings one large producer was interrupted by the chairman and told i that the committee did not care to listen to anything more along that line only line Ine only l to meet wih with the rejoinder that he with wih other copper men ud i-ud d been Invited to toI I testify and he intended to finish what he head I ad had to say He lie did soVe so We Ve understand also that insinuation were thrown out that the copper companies companies com corn panics were padding their cost sheets Result some Result some rather tart exchanges of words with subsequent apologies The copper people are eager to do their share I in the present s t national emergency They n th tW r will strain r to the limit ever productive facility They are asking for no rio favors at the hands of those who O know less about O the th business s n s i than t they do but t they say they have a right to fair treatment They ask no more more |