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Show oo WAGE EARNERS MAKE APPEAL Ask President Wilson and Governor of Ohio to Investigate Inves-tigate High Cost of Living. Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 11. The executive ex-ecutive board of the United MIno Workers of Ohio, representing 50,000 wage earners, today addressed to President Wilson and Governor Willis Wil-lis of Ohio a copy of a resolution adopted by miners of this union In the state demanding an investigation of the high cost of living. "We believe that the high cost of living," says the resolution, "is occasioned occa-sioned by unfair and illegal speculation specula-tion in food-stuffs and other necessary commodities, thereby causing actual hunger and distress in families where the "bread winner Is steadily employed." em-ployed." They ask that the government take such steps after Investigation "as will reduce the cost of commodities and place the necessities of life within the financial reach of the wage earner." Mine workers are hard hit by the high cost of living, the resolution declares, de-clares, because the mines are not working more than half time, duo to the coal car shortage. |