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Show PUBLIC PAYS THE PRICE. Some Figures in Coal Suit to Set the PeoDle Thinking. New York. W. W .Bule, statistician statistic-ian of the anthracite companies, was a witness on Thursday in the governments govern-ments suit charging the coal roads with maintaining an illegal combination. combina-tion. He was questioned as to the working of the agreement, following the settlement of the struggle of 1902 through the intervention of President Roosevelt, by which the miners were to receive a one per cent increase in wages for every five cents ad-advance ad-advance above $4.50 a ton made by the mine owners. Mr. Bule 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 $17,000,-000 $17,000,-000 more in wages since the strike in 19021 and the operators benefitted equally, the public must have paid $34,000,000 more for coal? "I suppose so, said the witness. |