Deseret Evening News | 1910-02-09 | Page 7 | Higher Wages for Coal Miners Impossible

HIGHER WAGES FOR COAL I MINERS IMPOSSIBLE Pittsburg Pa Feb havu havo reached the tho limit In paying the miners Higher wages are aro simply impossible Wo Vo cannot give what we have havo not got and I for or ono one am ready to submit the tho matter to an impartial judge This wn was the tho comment commont of President H A Kuhn or of the West Vest WestMoreland Moreland Morelan Coal Coni company when ho he read the tho statement or of Thos L Lewis 0 of the miners union Mr Kuhn further says that during the tho panic the opera operators operators tors kept the tho men at work at the pre prevailing wage scale Seale yet yot the West cst Vir Virginia Virginia ginia operators through their miners being unorganized were able ablo to lo un under undersell er ersell sell Pennsylvania and Ohio operators even oen in their own states If 11 they the are able to do this now what will tho they do wIth another increase in inthe inthe the cost or of production added to the high cost already