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Show GOVERNOR RAPS i 'COAL PIRATING' Threat That Public Must Pay Dealers' Losses Angers Executive T ALBIA. a . Sept 6. (By the Associated As-sociated Prose.) "Brazen and piratical" piratic-al" wore the words used by Governor X. E. Kendall In a Labor Day speech here Monday , in commenting: upon tho announcement of former Attorney General H. M. Haver, president of ono of the largest coal companies In Iowa, that the public must pay Increased In-creased prices for the alleged loss of $75,000 suffered by the company during dur-ing the five months in the strike of union miners "A more brazen announcement of a more piratical purpose never was recorded in tho annals nf industry," declared Governor Kendall. "If that policy is to be generally adopted an entirely new equation will be Introduced Intro-duced into business and the common people will underwrite the hazard of every enterprise," Reviewing the strike situation. Governor Gov-ernor Kendall said that he was gratified grati-fied to know that the actual violence which has occurred In this state was almost negligible although there were at one time 13.000 miners and 12,-000 12,-000 railroad workers Idle. Governor Kendall urged the miners to remain steadfastly loval to their union polnt'ng out that ft ha 1 raised wages, shortened hours and improved working conditions. -oo |