Show PUBLIC PAYS THE PRICE some figures in coal suit to set the thinking new york W W rule buie statistician of the anthracite companies was a witness on thursday in tho the governments suit stilt charging the coal roads with maintaining an illegal coni combination bina lie ile was questioned as to the working ot of the agreement following the settlement of the struggle of 1902 through the intervention of president roosevelt hy 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 bule buie admitted that the coal companies likely received at least as much from the increase in price as did the miners so that if labor received more in wages since the strike in 1902 and the operators tors bene fitted equally the public must have paid more for coal 1 I suppose so said tho the witness |