Show THE TIlE WHIP HANI HJ IX IN V V T. Oregonian Coal Cual dealers in the cities cites of or the thc Rocky mountain states state have havo a 0 grievance against the railroads railroad which they urge in extenuation o otheir of their inability to supply their clamor clamor- our customers with wih fuel fuel One of or these thes complainants In a 0 Montana town deClares doS de do- S dares Clares that the railroads s have confiscated conns confiscated V his coal for weeks past pat and that he has been unable to get more mor than two or three cars through to hi his I bins In as many weel weeks s His consignments consignments consignments consign consign- ments were Inadequate to 0 the demands demand V of IC his tra trade in the first place and h hIt he heI heis I It is f entirely unable to say sr say when the raIlroads railroads rail raIl- rai- rai roads will wi let him have an any more carloads car COi carloads loads of or his own coal coal It I seems that lint there is an unwritten n law to which S coal conI dealers are compelled to submit S by which the railroads ma may tal take e a ca car cr 01 or a score coro of or privately consigned carof cars car carsS carso S o of coal in iii transit over their lines fo for their own wn use providing providing their own bins are empty empt for which settlement I Is isS S eventually made on a more or or I II le I equitable basis bash While they thaS' chafe chore under un un- un- un der this proceeding proceeding- V dealers have no redress but are art com coin V polled pelTed to lose loe the profits prots of their re reS retal re- re S tall tail tal trade while the public suffers an and andS S i camor at their empty bins This is indeed a grievance before V which which- that suffered 1 by the consumer consume consume who does docs not have more than two o othree or three sacks out of a ton of or coal con eon fi by the driver Iri er of the thc company company's V fuel Cuel wagon is Insignificant Still I Isome Is Issom some som hardship when coal Is at Hi its Is to find delivery of 01 present price price a o V coal oal In the bin short b by actual c count coun two tio ore oie three sacks to the ton eu th the V driver producing producing- enough empty sacks sack from un under the seat seal to prove that th the lie therul full rul sacks sachs sels un under er the pile pie do not contain contain con con- tain lain your coal coal But then lien this Is no noa not nota a as bad as to have the lie whole load hond confiscated con con- b by the thc man who hol holds s th the whip hand han 1 In transportation V |