Show PALMER ORDERS COAL DRIVE dinst instructs ts district attorneys to take action against coal profiteers profiteer X ashington ashing to A little on profiteers s I 1 in biti bituminous coal was uns ordered on june 17 ill bv attorney G 11 palmer all federal district attorneys att orneia were mere a or dered to give special attention to charges of such pi of i leering and to seek look indictment where here in am obligation a A w a minted giard T the a department of justice justl fc said M mr FBI palmer 8 instructions in ion a is is recall name ing a 8 number r of batal 1 in hoch rain coni plaint paint I 1 is made that bituminous coal auces puces at the h mines loss raw now range rang on horn relt a bat 1 I 7 to jj 11 a ton ion ell with a further lar larse increase se imminent the m writers say that UP octra tots lois are attributing the chance aih auces to I 1 car shortage and exploit derrand deladd emphasis p ha aws be ng as placed upon apar the export demand production cost figures dithered gi by the fedrial trade com from bituminous mal eoal open tois sit in the pAI principal pI producing mining districts number roughly about bo bit per coal cent ot of the annual output show that during jannar 1920 1910 their thair costs is per for ton a average at the mines illges bernce then there has haa been an increase in creise cranse of 27 per cont in the cost of lubor labor encao mg ing tile the production cost to fa 2 79 per ton |