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Show MITCHELL THROWS LIGHT ON SUBJECT Declares That the Small Consumer Pays Most of the Profits of Coal Producing Companies. Soys Railroad Companies and Big Manufacturing Concerns Purchase Their Coal at Small Profit to Producer, and Sometimes Even at a Loss. Guthrie, Oklo. That tho small consumer con-sumer pays most of tho profits of tho ront producing companies Is tho statement mndo by John Mitchell, former president of tho United Mlno Workers of America, In a letter received re-ceived from him on Friday by Attorney Attor-ney Genernl West of Oklahoma. Tho letter was nn answer -to an Inquiry from Mr. West for Information that might bo used In West's pending prosecution of coal producing compulses com-pulses of Oklahoma. After stating that rallroa'd companies com-panies and big manufacturing concerns con-cerns purchnso their coat at a Bmall profit to tho producer, nnd sometimes oven nt a loss, Mr. Mitchell says: "On tho- wholo, tho nvorago prlco received for coal Is not high; indeed, it Is so much lower than tho prlco nt which coal Is sold In other countries that Its very cheapness becomes nn oxtrnvngonco nnd not an economy. Iho unfortunate fenturo Is that the small consumers pay so much and tho largo consumers so little." |