Show FEDERAL COAL QUESTION UP UPU U V S Commission May Advise Government Government Taking Mines Hy fly DARDEN COLF AX r bai U 1 Ool Correspondent Ond of The Ogden St nl rd-n rd Copyright WASHINGTON June Jun 3 It 16 Pro 6 Pro I that h t the iho government take takeover takeover over the th Anthracite mines and op- op operate crate op-crate orate erate them in the Interest of ot the entire nation are r being considered d dby by the United States coal coat commis commis- com commission mIll mIll- sion ston ThIs Thil commission was created by congress last fall tall Its It duty Is Iste Isto t te fled find out what's with the entire coal Industry Vie VIl will make Its report covering nn- nn an problems only to the pres pros president ident on J July ly 1 Those who are the th movement that the Operate overate the taints mine con con- contend con nd tend that now ar J run In the U of ot New York Tork and Phila Philadelphia del delphia hla capitalists and the United Mine Workers of ot America After Atter July L a i the commission will de deot ot Jt Its attention to the s end of ot the Industry Its en- en tl en-tl-c tI tI-e report embracing the bituminous ous situation will be b made Septem Septem- September ber 22 It will then be bo up to con con- congre con gre gres 9 which will not meet until Do- Do De December cember r to decide the corn com com proposals shall be writ writ- written ten tea law modified or rejected TAX O ON PUBLIC PUBLIO One phase of the tile Industry Into which the commission lon Is InquirIng Is the t tax hid lild upon the public by bythe bythe bythe the w warring groups the in- in In Information or this sub sub- sub I jet t is meagre aa as neither miners nor operators for self protection self hav ha tiled called attention to te It what lIttle littie Information has been however an unofficial oten cr estimates that the coal In- In Ind In Industry d Itry is levying a tax oc on the pub pub- public pub public lic ha of ot not less than 50 a ayar year yar and ind it may reach to op 8 support ort Its various trade asso asso- assoc asso- asso associations c and labor unions Most ot of this levy all of ot which of ot course comes out of ot the buyers purse ap- ap appears ap appear pears pear p to have havo been made by the workers worker Figures compiled complied by Harry N Taylor of ot Kansas City Mo Silo one tire 1110 of ot tho the national coal commis commIs- commIssion commission commission sion snow allOW that in the state of ot Ar- Ar Ar Ius Oklahoma Kansas and Mis- Mis Mis Missouri the tho United Mine Workers of Amerl a collected In union dues 1321 1921 the sum of or 01 orall sit all average of ot moro more mor than nine cent a ton on all coal mines In Ini i section t I COST OF UNIONS Should that proportion apply to union coal mined else bere the tho to- to total to total tal tat amount collected in 1921 1 21 to the United Mine Workers GL Cf American approximated 26 26 OtO O Oco O 0 These figures cover the local 1011 and district division of ot the theo o organization as aa well as the nation nation- ol 01 ci union 14 years rears Mr Taylor fig fig- res ires the miners in those com corapara para para- unimportant coal producing statta have spent t 6 4 to maintain their organization The Tho cot cott of ut being a union miner meas- meas ui td In dues Mr Taylor says has risen 2000 per cent within that Ith A this estimated annual levy y by the th miners as a start the Is S swelled Selled by byU U cost of cond conducting many of ot the lid C Id of ot the tho operators operator and ether selling coaL The soft e I operators alone alon are divided I Into nto upwards ot or fifty trade asso asso- asso- asso associations Their expenses are arc call estl- at not less than annually They give live employment to hundreds it if not thou thousands of ot ot- ot of officials and employee J he money to support them obviously Is I paid hy by the h man nian who buys coal S OTHER COSTS i iThe The jobbers and wholesalers have associations I an and 1 the retail coal merchants Are aro organized In hundreds of ot local dues range ranco from 10 a year P p That situation also applies the ls lon Is to the an- an an anthracite Industry where retaIlers and jobbers are arc strongly organized and nd where the operators are aro split Into two big JIg associations which em- em embrace embrace em embrace brace nearly Learly all of ot them I the or moro more required I ed cd to maintain ln these various serious and organizations every eHry year comes cut of ot money I cd for tor coal mined Among Ainone operators the of ot dues is based on ton ton- ton nae they mine among the other inches of ot the th industry the meth moth method method od of o computing dues varies aries aries but the N result remit Is the same as to the final po payee ro e The entire sum whatever Cr the lum number er of ot its millions mIllion may be Is Ista in- in income In Income lax ta exempt under our present com come tax law Every dollar so sorais-d sorais at d goes ROCS directly tor for the pur- pur purposes pur purposes pos poses o of the associations spending It laWers fees tec advertising prop prop- prop ganda anda and other things thines IncludIng In many Instances the th financing ot of strikes |