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Show dealers association and allied organizations and that they refused to sell LEVER ACT IS KNOCKED coal to anyone for purjMises beyond their immediate needs, thus prevent-- , OUT BY THE HIGHER ing the storage of roal for future LEADERS ARE CORE use. Another plan fur increasing fuel prices, it is charged, was to sell it through sales agencies which were AFTER separate in name only from the operating and producing eomjianies. Profits were thereby increased, the indictment aays. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE HANDS FEDERAL TO MUST ANSWER The oieraturs also created the DOWN DECISION. COURT BACK EAST. spot market, the indictment says, by agreement to sell coal only for immediate delivery at prices agreed Cases InAgainst Numerous Utah Sugar Two Hundred and Twenty-Thre- e upon at the time of delivery. In carOfficials and Others Brought In AnscarciBefore dictments Fonnd Judge rying out their plan to cause a to Bo Dismissed ImStates Several the said the of Last foal, grand ty jury derson At Indianapolis, Ind., broadcast during oierstors On Alleged Coal Effect published mediately of Federation American Friday last year articles minting out that Combination Yet As Uncertain. Concerned. Much Labor and Others there was a shortage of coal and urged ieople to purchase. SPRINGFIELD, Ills., Feb. 28. C ALDER MEASURE MUCH INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., FeU 25. Indictments returned in the federal ALTERED BY THE SENATE between coal ojierators at court Indianapolis Friday against and miners iu six states to force high miners and coal ojierators officials D. C., Feb. 25. WASHINGTON, real suit fur by restricting prices modified, the Calder coal were drawn under the Sherman antiproduction was charged today by a Greatly and will not be affected by federal grand jury indictment. Two regulation hill was sent to the senate trust act, a action of the supreme court the committee manufacon today today by x hundred and twenty-sidefendants, tures with a unanimous recommend- holding the Lever act partly unconincluding a hundred and twenty-seve- n ation for passage at this session. All stitutional, according to a statement ninety-nin- e and miners and ojierators provisions for federal control and, today by John L. Lewis, president of ojierslors associations or were accused of conspiracy to oieration of the coal industry during the United Mine Workers. The Lever fiaid and fuel control law. emergencies, and all tax projiosals Violate the Sherman aimed at elimination of excess profits act was last Monday declared invalid Illlive in defendants The Missouri, in coal dealings were stricken out by and unconstitutional by the United inois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and the committee, but requirements for States supreme court at Washington, AnderA. It. Pennsylvania. Judge full and current publicity on coal D. C. The opinion was handed down set son, who received the indictment, costs and profits, to be gath- by Chief Justice White. The legality mining and fur arraignment, May 3d, next, ered the federal trade commission, of the act was challenged by twelve by in issuing capiases for arrest of the different concerns from as many difdefendants he fixed the bond of each were left intact. committee The inserted ferent angles. Lower courts had disection a at ten thousand dollars. eoinmia-sioi- i, vided on the the federal trade constitutionality of the Many prominent ojierators, includ- requiring whenever White condemned the act. Justice fuund it instances of C. ing Thoniua T. Jircwster, Edward extortionate or excessive profits, to law as being bo broad as to be vague Pearls, Jackson llecring, Phil Penns make individual aud corjiorate names and amounted to a mere delegation and William K. Kavanaugh, and high of legislative tower to court and officials of the United Mine Workers' available to the public, and to I Item to individually congress. jury. John nnion, including its president, L. Lewis, and its secretary, William Further sections added would rethe roimniitsinu to compile data Sugar Suits Art Off. flreon, were among the defendants. quire on decision contract sale of the United States of The while the roal, The Xationul Cml association waa geological survey is authorized to supreme court against the constitudefendants. the corjHirale among compile current reports on coal pro- tionality of the ljevcr act will result Follow! Investigation. duction, stocks ami movements. The in the dismissal of profiteering chargcovers The indictment specifically rejiort said the bill was nut offered es brought against seventeen promithe last three ycurs in the coal indus- ss a complete legislative solution of nent Utahns in fourteen indictments Dakotry and follows an eighteen months' the problem of preventing a recur- found in Utah, Idaho, North investigation by agents of the depart- rence of the deplorable conditions ta and Mo.ntana. Must of the indictment of justice. The charge is made to which the consuming public Las ments grew out of alleged profiteero been subjected. Sugar coming by thd by the indictment that at various The committee of which of the directors the finds, eight report conferences the miners and pany, opjoint erators agreed to be juirtnera in min- added, that no cause constituted are named in the findings of the ing and distributing roal, and that either justification or legitimate ex- grand juries of the four states. Chus. for the great advance ia prices W. Nililey, former general manager they would aid one another in plans cuse o company; Merrill to increase wages, increase prices, which the evidence fihows was parti- of the create a shortage and otherwise limit cipated in by operators, wholesalers Nibley, assistant general manager; production and distribution. Crea- aud retailers, and aggravated by the W. II. Waltix, recently named managtion of fictitious market pricca and entrance of scrutators. It is fair ing director; T. R. Cutler, vice presithe provocation of miners' strikes by to aay that not all operators, whole- dent; Stephen II. Lve, member of operators also was charged. Most of salers or retailers increased their the executive committee and sales the persons indicted ss individuals in iriees unduly. Many ojierators, par- manager; W. S. McCorniek, David A. the new bill were aiming those nsmed ticularly of the larger rlasa, had a Smith and James IX Murdock, all dias defendants in the indictment re- large pnqtortiun of their output un- rectors at the time of the indictments, are the sugar company officials against turned some time ago charging viola- der contract prices. ' The rejmrt asserts that congress whom the pending prosecutions will tion of the Lever food and fuel conto bring be dropjied. trol act by an alleged conspiracy to has a manifest duty to the churges brought curtail production and to force high about publicity of costs and profits, to and declare coal is baaic the a that been that against Trial of case ha! eomjiany and its officers prices. postHmed indefinitely and it waa necesaity, charged with a public in- and directors, both for conspiracy to violate the law and alleged violation said unofficially that it might be terest and use. of its provisions, indictments were dropped in view of the new charges. MINERS HEADS CONSIDER found by the Utah grand jury against CoUusioa la Charged. ACTIONS OF GOVERNMENT Merrill Nibley and James E. Jennings on sejiarate counts, against During the three-yea- r jieriod covWASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 26. Frank Pingree, cashier of the Nationered in the indictment a detailed his- The executive council of the Ameritory is given of methods by which it can Federation of Labor met here to- al City bank; llyrum 1ingree and John A. Stone in another ease; is rharged the oiwratora and miners worked together to restrict the pro- day to consider the action of the gov- against J. 1L Grut, cashier of the duction and distribution of bitumin- ernment in prosecuting officials of the Continental National bank, Stone and ous eoa!. The charge is made that United Mine Workers of America for C. V. Miller of Ogden; against Grut the agreement entered into between alleged violation of the Sherman an and Gage B. Rodman, and against B. art. Before the meeting G. Richardson of All of these the operator and miners provide! William Green, secretary of the indictments also Ogden. both conthat coal should not be sold at any miners charged union, and one of those inaud actual violation. time for a price that did not yield dicted yesterday at Indianapolis, spiracy to the increases that operator; profit a formal statement deof wsges to miners should be addin Ind., issued GOB DESCRIBES to the price of coal; that competi- claring that' if the union officials were ARMENIAN HORRORS guilty of conspiracy, the tion among ojieraturs should lie elimitself is a party thereto, inated; that no coal should lie sob the miners had been subject to below the cost of traduction, om ."You cant resits what a sight It la government regulation and control that the means of increasing cost an for the last three see the refugee czmp at Datum,' to years. in the price of coal shoub production Matthew Well, vice president of the retty Officer George Porter, of Racine, . be by closing and keeping idle the American Federation of Labor, de- Win, writes his family, telling of tho mines. The operators established clared the indictment of the mine work of tho Near East Relief In the unifoTi rest accounting synta'.n for union officers was a part of the na the oieratinn of the mines, it is char; tion wide along tho Black Sea. to destroy the ports propaganda Tho ed, and liy agreement employed people are dying off llttio by trade union movement as the action Ilttlei There art workers of tho relief greater number uf miners than was struck the very foundation of reaaonably neeesary to oerate the the organisation hero, bnt they don't seem of collective prineiples bargainmines prn)ierly. Agreements rnterei Green said all agreements made to taxable to take care of them alL into at the conferences between the ing. They were tho ones that madt tho miners and ojierators have lieen con- with coal operators by the union off- camp. The families all live In grass tinuous fram one conference to an- icers were made under the direction to sit up In, and other up to the time of the filing uf and with the ajtpraval of the federal huts, just high enough fuel administration. the indictment, it is said. These indictments seem to be the Maks Fictitious Prices. reward the miners are receiving for Creation of high and fictitious putting forth special efforts during order to increase producmarket prices for coni waa brought the war in added. about by the operators, according to tion, he the indictment, by an agreement fol- AROUND THE LOCAL CAMPS; lowing the susiensinn of the national PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE fuel regulations in February, 1910, not to contract for the future delivKidd Bras. Coal company of Uin ery of coal and not to sell coni unless tah county lias pnqicrty valued at they were able to obtain a price equal $(100.80 for taxation purposes. to or aliove the price that had lieen Carlton Fuel has filed its fixed bv .the nHtinnal fuel admiiiistra returns with thecompany state tioard of equaltion. Another charge is made that ization. Listed projiertv amounts to the operators by a concerted plan fHiVtfiO. made various rejiorts to the mine The Gilson Asphaltum comjwny of of the several states and to the Mesa, Colo., has filed its unnnni regovernment that there was no market turn of assessable property with the for coni and that this plan caused the state board of This reequalization. to it increase until was higher price shows real estate and improveport than the prices fixed and maintained ments in Uintah valued at by the national fuel administration $302.21 LOO. and ineonnty Duchesne county prior to the sus; tension. Regarding valued at $176. the activities of (he national coal association, the indictment charges JAP FARMS REPORTED that this organization is engaged in Jaimnese farms in Utah are valued marking out zones into which coal at $1,050,000 and consist of eighty-thre- e may be shipped and that reports on GEORGE PORTER. hundred and forty-eigacres production and prices in each zone in one hundred and thirty-thre- e enable oieratnra to govern the supply farms, according to statistic pre- they are covered with blankets. There and price of fuel. pared by M. M. Justin, agricultural Is disease everywhere and the smell Is All Sales limited. statistician. The amount of land in terrible, I'm glad we didn't stay long, The indictment charges that in the Utah occupied by Japanese has in- as I couldn't stand It, and you know when I can't stand anything there are plan to increase the price of coal the creased during the last ten years. few that can. I am sorry for these e operators refused to sell fuel to Duplicating sales books to order at not a member of the retail coal very refugees, bnt we can't help any. They attractive prices. The Sun. OPERATORS Ml ION cuin-(isnie- anti-tru- START AN ACCOUNT ;.Ri MS! PRICE , UTAH Let Us Help You to Real s, Banking Service at re-M- irt Utah-Idab- Utah-Iduh- ti-tr- lie-ga- n, piv-ernme- nt lie-cau-se 'at hu-rea- ht arty-on- gfle l.lii'lliiiliilmllliW'jljii'jiiiiii!! W. A. LOWRY President don't want money though they wouTd sell their lives for some clothes and food. They don't stop praising tho HER E. BUTTERWORTH Vice President Cookie HELP OUT A GOOD CAUSE Americans. Trebizonda was another 'Armenian town, but It waa completely wiped out by tho Turks, who are now In control of it The Turks massacred all the Armenians over fifteen years o age and kept all under that age to bring them np as Turks. The city looked as If It was shot to pieces. Samsoun Is tho same as Trebl-sond- e, so you can see what kind of country wo are travelling through. am sure glad that wo are leaving Russia and Armenia because I am alck of what I have seen. I think that these tourists who are trying to see ravished Armenia will be sorry they ever came over. These relief workers are nearly dead from work. They are the people who can tell the U. 8. something about this country. Tho Near East Relief 1 Madison Ave' New York, la now appealing for funds to continue tho work so graphically described by tho young American sailor. HI BERGERA R. M. MAGRAW, Vice President Have a Good Time Yourself A brass band is a trig asset to a town, and the members always are called upon to assume quite a burden is giving their time, services and even their cash, to further the matter of keeping up their organization. Consequently, when an opportunity offers to help the boys out, and at the same time to have a good time yourself just when you would be spending your money anyway, you should jump in and grab the chance. The boys are giving a big dance on St. Patrick's day, March 17th, at the City Pavilion and they want you to come. Just bay a ticket and give yourself credit for helping things along. Any of the band members will supply you with a PRICES EKED Company and Growers Get Together At Zion Saturday. ADMISSION Utah and Idaho sugargrowers will he paid for beets grown this year in accordance with the amount realized by the sugar beet manufacturers for $1.00, PLOS 10c WAR TAX LADIES TEN CENTS (War Tax) sugar and the sugar contents of the beets grown. This agreement was When you get tired of seW" reached last Saturday after a week lies the price for beets progressivewhere the to the members of Harding Is eele point sugar might of conferences between representa- ly up lid sell fifteen dollars for at at him, yon might devote s sack, per tives of the Utah State Farm bureau will 16 which decide whal farmer time the a to you point getting o and the Sugar company. eent sugnr would receive $17.22 in your garden this spring. Hzri It means that the farmers will re- per ton for his beets. wont mind. ceive $0.04 per ton for beets grown per conLast year'jhe average sugar in 1021 should sugar be selling at the tent of beets received by the o If this unemployment keeps Ft present price of $72)0 per hundred 16.02 waa cent the company big cities it will have at leastto per with a minimum of $5.50 (ter ton The in the Btate 11.57 tons effect. We wont have was notable yield based on a price of five dollars per acre. editorial howling over so much per bag for the manufactured sugar. The of farm labor. scarcity minimum figure of $5.50 per ton will Why do some people stand in deadbe paid the farmers as in previous This is a good month in whid ly fear of being struck twice lightyears on November 15th and Decem- ning f It never hits the sameby the jierson begin worrying over what ber 15th for deliveries made during twice. forth. will month bring the previous month. The price scale will start at this figure and for the Wedding announcements. Tho Sun. That good printing. The Pm balance, if any, the amount to be paid will depend on the price of su- WWWWWWWYWWVWWMWWWVWWWWVWWM gar for the year October, 1021 to October, 1922, payments to be made February 1, June 1 and October 1, 1922. D. D. McKay, president of the Utah State Farm bureau, and offo icials of the Sugar company express much satisfaction with the price agreement reached. If the Amalgamated Sugar ronqmny and minor sugnr manufacturing concerns accept similar agreements, the price to lie paid for sugar beets will affect about fifteen thousund farmers, who They're coining fast the first robin the first mess of greens the hankering for a little lighter underwear. And with then lut year grew 112,700 arres of beets. Under the new1 agreement farmers hints come other sure signs of it's approach the making of g" will he able to buy the best pftlp for den, painting the barn or garage, fixing np places shout the beet growing at eighty cents per ton All these premises you said youd fix if I live till spring. instead of $1215 jer ton, the hints mean that yon are bound to need hardware, garden seeds, price last year. Several minor garden implements, paints, oils, varnishes, putty, glass snd brushes. details remain to lie adjusted liefore! We offer yon the advantage of a large stock, and one bought the contracts are ready for final ac-- 1 while the market is on the decline. W have everything yon fl rpptance, but committees will handle; and at prices that will keep you a satisfied customer. these. Under the drafted agree-- j talk it over. Come in and lets discuss these improvements 7 mrnt beet sugar farmers ill be com- know yon ought to make maybe weve got a suggestion that vu pelied to wait much longer than in enable yon to get them cheaper than yon have been figuring ast years for their final payments. would cost yon. In the contract provisions offered by the sugar company it is stipulated that the first and second subsequent settlements, February 1. 1922, ' 1, 1922. will be 80 per rent of the full balance due on each date on ' that proportion of all beets received from each grower as the total sugar sold to that date liears to the total The price agree-- i sugar produced. ruent reached Saturday starts with; West Main Street, the North Side, Facing South. sugar selling at five dollars per sack for beets with a sugar content of from PRICE, UTAH. 14 per cent to 18 i cent, and enr- Utah-Idah- Utah-Idah- ' Hints Spring Utah-Idah- It j j i i and-Jun- ! ! J. C. WEETER LUMBER CO. |