Show COAL BARONS BAK TO FIX LOWER LOVER PRICES OPERATORS PROMISE SECRETARY WILSON TO TREAT GOVERNMENT GOVERNMENT GOVERN GOVERN- MENT AND PUBLIC BETTER Immediate Cut Ranging From One to Five Dollars on Bituminous Product Product Prod Prod- Agreed Upon at Conference Conference Conference Confer Confer- ence ence Held at Capital Washington Reductions Reductions In the price of bituminous coal at all nIl mines east of the Mississippi river ranging from 1 to 5 5 a ton to the public with witha a further cut of 50 cents for the government gov were wele agreed upon Thursday at conferences bet between the operators and government officials The new prices become e effective at once I Four our hundred operators who gathered gathered gathered gath gath- ered here at nt a call from Secretary Lane Lanc and nd pledged themselves to furnish their product at a reasonable price were represented represented rep- rep resented In the final conference by committees from each field Earlier In inthe inthe the he day they the the had agreed to place the price fixing In the hands of the government government gov gov- through the defense councils council's councils council's councils council's coun coun- cil's coal production committee Secretary Secretary Secre- Secre tary ary Lane am and Commissioner Fort of the he federal trade commission thus titus i voiding avoiding the possibility of violating the trust anti-trust laws Director Smith of the geological surrey survey sur sur- Ye rey vey estimated that the reduced prices prices prices' would mean that the operators would get less annually for their output and that the saving to the go government gov and the consuming coal-consuming public would be even greater Only the districts west of Illinois Illinois- Iowa owa Wyoming Colorado Oklahoma and the southwest which southwest which were not represented remain yet to be lie accounted account account- ed cd for and there Is no doubt In the minds of officials that these district districtS wIll agree to the price reduction |