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Show Coal Trust Is Deceiving the j People on Prices WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 Representative Represen-tative Huddleston, Democrat, Alabama charged In the house today that the National Coal association had spent $50,000 for advertising space in 400 newspapers in ' an effort to make the people buy coal now at exorbitant prices through belief of an Impending shortage." "Nothing except an act of congress," he said, will stay this infamous ai-tempt ai-tempt on the part of the coal operators to take advantage of suffering human-ny human-ny next winter. I insist that con: pas- such an act and take it ouf of the power of the operators tc irofi;eer. , There Is no coal shortage and no labor shortage, but there is a shot n in common honesty on the part of the cocl operators " |