of cost must be considered as normally controlling the price of coal to the consumer—resource cost, mining

for his coal supply this year. Why? Be¬ cause the mine owners and operators have so decreed. There is just

to insist that any adjustment of the labor ques- tions in the coal mining industry, whether by joint

to open new coal mines to meet extravagant needs. Transporta¬ tion facilities are burdened to the limit

an increased produc¬ tion of coal is a close cooperation be¬ tween mine employer and mine em¬ ployee

. This falling off in the output of the mines is due to several causes. There was considerable coal carried over

coal, especially of domestic sizes. The causes are the greater difficulty in mining as the mines become

Administra- tion the mine workers are making every patriotic sacri- fice possible to get out the coal

York will receive its pro rata supply of the coal that is mined, based on the consump¬ tion of past

as to ownership of coal mines, prices of coal, wages, wage contracts, conditions of employment, distribution

miles from the mines and over one mountain range. The southern roads that supply other centers haul coal

¬ try finds its point in the question, not who but what fi.xcs the price of coal. Exact mining costs

coal, per gross ton, that it has devolved itself into a matter of pure guess work at mines and f

through the Interstate Commerce Commission a reduction in the freight rate on coal from the mines

Even If Mines Are Opened Immediately WITH the strike in the bituminous coal fields settled

the price of coal to $3 a ton at the mine to the consumer, and $2.50 a ton to the Government. While

for the handling of coal. There is plenty of coal in the mines. What is of particular interest to consumers

in mind that the price for mining a ton of coal costs only from 38 cents co 74 cents. Of courad tho miniug

personal responsibility for a weekly coal production representing his equitable proportion of the mine

. Such an in¬ quiry into the mining and distribution of the nation's coal supply as is proposed should