Show PUBLIC PAYS THE PRICE some figures in n coal co al suit to set the thinking now new york W W bule statistician ot of the anthracite companies was a witness on thursday in the governments suit charging the coal roads with maintaining an illegal com bombina comb bina lna tiou he was questioned guestion ed as to the working oz 07 the agreement agre emeA nt following tho the settlement or of the struggle st or of 1902 through the intervention ot of president roosevelt by which the miners were to receive a one per cent increase in wages for every five cents ad advance above a ton made by the mine owners mr air bulo buie admitted that the coal companies compa ales likely received at least as much from the increase in price as did the miners so that it if labor received more la in wages since the strike in I 1 1902 and the operators bene fitted equally the public must havo have paid more tor for coul cool 1 I suppose so BO said the th e witness |