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Show .at, june 8. Ha THE 8UN. PRICE. UTAH EVERY FRIDAY. MINERS TROUBLES LAID PAGE THREE TO EXCESSIVE DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY The Russell Sage foundati..n. in a lengthy rcH.rt on The Coal Miners' Coluiub a university to be presorted Inaerur.ty, made publie lust Satur- by the Inited Mine Workers to the1 holds that no satisfueturv agree- bituminous roal day, commission, showed ment of a permanent nature on that in January, lirJO, fliltfj sealee rau be reached between the wage min- : ';i w . sn To P o rf.u Prt 1 j f.rt for f.tuil living in Minin, n.U' lanndiy will be ready when ermee as the over development of mumties call for it Promptness ia as much required, according to I'rofc- many more mines than are required to sor Osburn's estimate, ia fint-da- u an annual inart of oar oerrico supply the country's needs." This come of $2233. lriees have decreased And bow fin that work ia yon over development, the report declares, somewhat since these estimates, but jiscever when yon open the pack- - has resulted in giving an average of even in the containing you ahirta and collars. only 214 year of lilt 8 of employment aunuulty the miners' projsieroui dan ho ratsfiod nerer with average annual earnings ordinary to the six hundred thousand gH men em- were not equal to the estimated mini udiy work again. ployed in the industry, thus nullifying mum of subsistence, except for a imPRICE STEAM LAUNDRY the advantages of wage increases. In peratively small group or the Phono SIS giving out the report, the foundation miners employed every day that the states that it investigated the coal sit- mines were open. uation in connection with its study of Miners Handicapped. human xelationi in industry and that it has analyzed data on irregularity of "Pacts about miners earnings nnd the which unemployment Coal Co. production and employment in bitu- causessuffering in their families can lie underminous mining extending over a pestood only if conditions of life in a riod of thirty-tw- o years. These data, the report adds, includes the most re- mining camp are known. In meny cent statistics on annual earn;ngs and mining communities the mine is the kindred subjects compiled by the Unit- only place of employment. To find job in dull jieriods means goed States geological survey, the Na- another to another town. Moreover, a miing tional Coal association, the United ners family lacks the economic safeMine Workers, the United States buguards reau of labor statistics, and various several of life in a community with varied industries in which state bureaus of mines. Among other members of the family, including things the reiort says; wives and daughters, find work. I'or Report Summarize! many coal miners this source is lack- yr 111 Still Leadin- g- u tl mm-Liit- After More Than 25 Years Measured in the life of man, twenty-fiv- e years is a goodly period of time. Measured in the life of coal, twenty-five years is nothing. Castle Gate and Clear Creek coals were among the best in this part of the world, thousands of years ago long before they were discovered by man. They will continue to be the best until the last pound has been mined and used which will be many years in the future. While you are burning coal you might as well burn the best it costs less. e Spring Canyon ASK YOUR DEALER UTAH FUEL CO. th-er Uinera end Shipper Celebrated of the Spring Canyon Coal liliiua at STORKS, UTAH. General Offices, 117 Newhouao Building. Balt Lake City, Utah. 0RR1N ELMER COUPON, UTAH General MerctMnitlee and Stockmen's Supplies Hotel, Dipping Vats and Feed Lots In Connection I Where You're Treated Right Successor to MARBLE CRANEB 'The bituminous coal mines have been ojien for work on an average of only 214 days a year in the tliirtv-tw- n years from 1800 through 1921, If SOI days lie regarded as a full working year, the lost days of employment nnd of mine ojieration have averaged ninety each year. Only twice, and this during the wsr, did the miner reach the high mark when he had as few as sixty-on- e idle days in s year. In eleven of these thirty-tw- o years the lose of working time, and consequently of wages, has averaged 100 days or more for the bituminous miner. Of these lost days, 37 per rent, according to the estimates of the United States geological survey, have been due to the overdevelopment of soft coal mines. Mines now in operation could produce from 700,000.000 to 900,000,000 tons a year, according to various estimates of the president's bitnminous coal commission and statistician! of the geological survey, while the country can use approximately 500,000,000 a year. Result of Excess. "This excess of capacity over production brings more men into the industry than are needed and makes employment intermittent and once in even when business in general if most prosperous. As the demand for soft coal has increased from a little over 100,000,000 tons to over 500,000,000 tons annually in the past three decades, the number of nvnes and the numlier of employes have inrrensed, but the days of employment in a year HIGHEST EFFICIENCY. have shown no ajiprrriable increase, Government equlvalsnt flOllha except temporarily during the period not Will for storage. Unequalled of the war. Increased demand and and of beet The lack. steaming urn: qualltlee. higher prices have resulted in opening heating enlarging others, and emCoal & new mines, more miners, rather than in ploying Co. giving more regular employment to the men in the mines already open. Minae at Kenilworth, Utah Makes Work Irregular. General Offices In the Walker Bank Building. "Seasonal variation in demand, acdnlr . Balt Lake City. cording to the geological survey, accounted for 47 per cent of the lost electd in bituminous mining. In the pedays iy tbs riod from 1913 to 1922, the production he en IVUL-COlied W of coal in the month of greatest out that put exceeded production in the month he MU of least output by 1,000,000 to 16,000,-00- 0 ck a WASTE BASKETS tons or more and was never less In the 'hoe coal than 6,900,000 tons. Seasonal fluctuforlMI I GUARANTEED FIVE YEARS ations result in keeping more men and in more eapital in the industry to lie M' Dhtrir-equipped for the annual peak of dethe mand than would be needed if work the were more evenly distributed throughirdi out the year. This excess of numlwrs noil hy employed tends in turn to make emthe") ild Pi'f ployment irregular and uncertain, eaMl Nevertheless, even the elimination of turn c11! seasonal variations wonld not make I lift f, IITH. f employment regular so long as loo Cheief mines were operated. To offset many T 121. periods of idleness and lack of earnings, the bituminous miners are forced : to seek higher rates of pay. But these ine higher rates do nut give the miner a DM1 living wage throughout the year when Cert I he has the opjairtun'ty to earn wugts no few days in the year. In 1929, the United Mine Worken rejHirted to the ABERDEEN COAL Independent Coke I I T i J C.f . thl Its Actually a Better Waste Basket After Five Years Use Waste Basket and any ether waste basket You experience will tell yon that would have happened to the other waste basket in five years in three purs. The Vnl-Ctough and the in beginning, strong will be a better basket and good fu ten or fifteen years more service. The Vnl-Cbaa solid sides and bottom nothing can sift out over the floor. Yet the Vnl-Cis extoremely light about half as heavy as it would be if made of aluminum. You'll like their handsome appearance. Regular finishes art rich ma non brown and olive green. iTT-A-KE g (h r Vnl-C- ot ot ot ot n1 PRICE , UTAH im Perhaps most failures are caused by null minds attempting to grasp large Objects. j Miners and Shippers of Castle Gate and Clear Creek Coal. ing. The coal industry nccesMir'.ly befor insuring sufficient 'tiroine to the men in the mi.ies to maintain their families throughout the year. comes responsible EVILS OF STRIKE MAY BE VERY FAR REACHING Evil consequences of the cos! si like are not all to be found in the mere loss of money paid to the miners as wages, nor to the delay effected in the full return of prosperity to this country, but the adverse chances of future employment to the miuers are daily more fixed. A ship loaded with coal is now on its wav from Wains VALUATION OF RAILROADS 18 QUITE A PROBLEM to a Northern Atlanta (United Stiles) exand are further engagements port, Three methods of determining valupected. A dispatch from London is ations of railroads are being cuiMid-ere- d the first definite information that coal by the state board of equalization shipments are to lie made from Eng- this year, namely, the valuation of land to the United States, although stocks aud bonds, net earnings and rerumors have been current for several values. In the opinion of weeks that coal cargoes were on the production the board it is evident tlu:t of members way here. The consensus of opinion in stocks and boi.ds are reflected fruu coal circles in New York is that the year to year in the earnings of the importation of coal at the present time companies, sinee if dividends are paid would not be a profitable venture. It stocks are worth more. was pointed out, however, that the It cannot be taken, however, as the shipment will be three weeks in tranmethod of determiniug valuasit, and if the present rate of priee ad only taxation purposes, according for tion unvances continues, British coal can members of the lioard who cite to doubtedly undersell the domestie offigures presented by the Souther.' Paferings. a fluctuation A shortage of freight leaving Brit- cific company showing from $62,25.1205.25 in net in earnings ish shore for return cargoes and an in 1020 and to evidenced keen deaire of the IV sics 1917, to $21,31244.04 the net earnin 1921. If $35,946,719.14 coal exporter! to extend their market for basis a as used are valuation, have led to steamship men's viewing ings tliat the attitude the takes board the the situation with more than usual would lie too great to jier-m- it fluctuation careful scrutiny, and predictions are them to consider anything but a made that coal imports would show five year average. an increasing volume. Coal, it wss From the publie utilities commisin iree come to is added, permitted board had procured the refrom duty. Welsh operators believe sion the valuea Sinee these stnte-ment- a that they have definitely regaimd productionfurnished are by the romunics their prewar hold on South American the board rate for making purposes, markets, to which more than twenty is using the figures at par until the two cargoes were recently disiatclicd. shall have proven their If many of the American eoal miners companies for taxation to he difvaluations true remain permanently out of work as a Members of the board, howferent. of result of shifting supply points, ever, are of the opinion that nit three they have only themselves to blame, methoda mentioned will hav-- to be considered in arriving at a fair VERNAL AT THOUSAND PEOPLE WAKE UF SENATOR ! c i Replying to a communication from Miss Louise Jorgensen, president of the American Legion Auxiliary out at Vernal, Senator Reed Smoot writes that he was just in reecipt of a letter from the treasury department stating that a report had been made by thc r investigator relative to a federal building at Vernal This letter stated that it is believed that a very good building, of simple character ran be con- structed within the available appropriation and that the preliminary work necessary for placing the work on the market had been commenced. It is expected that bids ran be asked for during the coming September. Recently the Auxiliary sent in a petition containing over a thousand names to congress asking that construction work on the federal building at Vernal be started this year. bituminous coal commission that in the of employyear of greatest regularity MAY COME IN HANDY OUT IN ment, 1918, the average annual earnTHOSE WILDS ings of their members in the central in competitive field varied froml104 At a business meeting of Vernals Ohio to s maximum of $1583 in west- Commercial club last Monday evening, ern Pennsylvania. it was derided to install a large radio Better With Fulltime, receiving set as soon as one Could lie 304 secured from the manufacturers. The work to able been "Had they have a pick-u- p those radio will espac'ty of with daya a year, their earnings rates might have reached a maximum 25(H) miles which will enable them to of $1850. Data derived from the Unit- receive from Boston, New Tork City, ed States .census indicate that in 1919 Washington, and other distant cities. lie inthe average annual earnings of minors When received the outfit willsuitable on a in the stalled in from $1002 Orpheus in the same area carried hear t Indiana to a maximum of $1318 in night that a large audience maycitiea is inthe one of from concert big The geenral average Pennsylvania. crease of 27 per cent, granted by the the United States. The proceeds from bituminous coal commission in 1920 a dance will go toward paying for thewould have increased these earnings radio. It will then be installed pennathe had employment been no more irergn-la- r nentl.v in the Commercial club fornews where members daily the of in its Even use than in the jurat. is broadcasted. prosperous year of 1920, will be received as it the of of the ojieration days however, of a mines were 9 per cent less than in 1918, Who remembers when the sign .a tne wile was em- that for family 1921 the prosperous in opportunity while com- - had a woman to come to the house on ployment decreased 23 per cent as cent as Monday morning to do tbs wee s pared with 1920, and 32 per Thus 1918. irregular washing t with compared advanthe nullified has employment Truth is mighty and will prevail, ' of pay. tage of increased rates we have been told, but every unap"Estimates of the cost of living preof preciated soul doubts it W. F. Osbum pared by Professor !. ' AN INSURANCE POLICY i i I f i I I l 1 In one of our companies is the stepping stone to success. How are you stepping? Our companies offer you the best and our rates are within reason. We give you the benefit of our experience when seeking advice. When in doubt come to us, we will show you the way. t ft I Equitable Real Estate & Investment Co. Iu Second Floor Silvagni Bldg., Price, Utah I WILL TELL THE WORST entitled to know conditions, and in so Every state institution will he look- far aa my office ia concerned they shall ed into as to its financial transactions know." by Mark Tuttle, state auditor, bin That good, printing. The Sun. now getting at the work just as rapidly as possible. Tuttle says that dej-uti- ea "the duty of auditing the accounts of the various state institutions ia imposed upon me by law, and I intend to see that the law is carried out. As fast as these audits are completed the farts will be given publicity. The poeple are T. P. LAMONS Give us your freight hauling and other work of Llile kind and It will have attention. No Job loo Urge or prottiit too emaU for me to handle. Her vice ear day or night. T. P. Lantone, Phono SOW, Price, Utah. i: 'i ,1 Summer Millinery Showing at Our Store Is the Latest .... hats for the ladies that comprises the latest styles and make. The famous Grace Hat has no equal for style and comfort. Fits on the head, looks nice and the workmanship is the best, in fact there is no wearout to them. In childrens and littles misses hats we carry a large, select line at stock. prices to suit everyone. No leftovers, but all new We extend an invitation to Price patrons to come in and see; also to the order and we people of the coal camps. If you cant come in send in your store and see this Visit to show No trouble to goods. it for you. will Attend for yourself. I i if i if j if, M.j r We are still showing a line of summer . - .1 fil !: I v k: "'Lj '0 Bessie Kennedy , Millinery PRICE, UTAH isll y f v;1 t I- sc |