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Show Insist raise in coal justified Coal Operators Meet With G-overnor; Grand Jury May Be Called SALT r.AKF. Sept. 13 Coal operators oper-ators of Utah, meeting yesterday with Governor Charles It Mab.y and Attorney At-torney General H. H Cluff, denied that they had broken faith with tho governor In Increasing the price ot coal and declared the Increase was fully Justified. Mr Cluff announced at the completion of the meeting that the state Is still determine,) to bring ; about a grand jury Investigation In- to the price of coal and other com-I com-I modules entering into the cost of llv- Ing. With the failure of the operators 'to ,;lve what Mr. Cluff said was a satisfactory explanatlbD of the Increase, In-crease, the attorney general was of the view that the next step WOUld j be for District Attorney E A Rogers Rog-ers of Salt Lake to move that the ( district court call a grand jury at i once. He said he thought a second conference would he had with thc district attorney, at Which the time for asking the errand jury' Investigation Investiga-tion woni.j be decided upon ( IliLKD BY t.OFKNOH. The meeting held yesb-rdav with ; Governor Mabey anil the attorney general gen-eral was railed by the former for the I purpose of getting the viewpoint of the operators. As viewed by the attorney at-torney general there were practically I no results from the meeting so far I as It affected the general situation. Governor Btfabey called the attention atten-tion of the operators present to what 1 he termed practically a pledge that the price of coal would not be increased in-creased in Cue advent the national guard took over control in Carbon county and afforded adequate protection pro-tection for the fuel properties The state officials said that at this meeting meet-ing tin- governor put a question up to the operators as to whether there would be increases if the guard were sent in. The trend of the answers was construed by the governor to constitute a promise that lliere would be no Incr.-aSi In o.i I on, r INSPECTOR'S STATEMENT. A condensed statement was given out by C. A. Allen, chief mine Inspector, In-spector, who attended the conference with the sanction of the governor, which was printed under date it June 6 as follows: .V Committee representing the coal operators of Utah met with Governor Gover-nor Mabey at 11 o'clock for the purpose pur-pose of correcting certain misapprehensions misappre-hensions in the public mind regarding regard-ing their attitude In the present la-l-or trouble The operators assured the governor that their requests for state troops had been only for 'he purpose of protecting the men that were working In the mines now. They stated that over 76 per cent of the English-speaking men who -were employed em-ployed before the trouble were slill working under the reduced scale and that iniinv of these men had wp is and children residing In the camps "They also told the goernor that I tah operators wr-rr golnt: to live strictly up to the Hoover awards is to the price of coal and there would be no profiteering. They explained that the commodity prices and llvlnp conditions In their camps an -.s k ,i. or better than in nny of the surrounding surround-ing ramps and assured him that any Investigation he desired to make would be g'n their hearty co-operation and assistance " |