The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-22
PROMPT ACTION IS ApVIsABLE.

PROMPT ACTION is ADVISABLE.
7HERE is for the belief that the Commercial Club
Traffic bureau its meeting today will consider
fully the suggestion made that that organization do what it
to aid the people in their fight for cheaper COAL for coal
at the price at which ought to be sold 1t undoubtedly
within the province of the bureau do this and the prestige
which that organization has acquired through its earnest work
during the past years viii aid materially in getting
square deal for the people In the matter of coal prices
For two years. the Commercial Club Traffic bureau has
maintained office in the city, and has done excellent
work during that time The question of the cost of coal in
Salt Lake and the cost in other cities that their
base of supply than Salt Lake has been given careful
study the officers of the bureau They have watched
fully the fluctuations in price, they have watched the indie
pendent companies start into business and have laughed with
the of when independent coal company
announced t>
Investigations have been made in other cities of the cost
of coal of the conditions that obtain there's of the battles that
have been made by the people to the price down. This has
been the business Of the bureau among other things There
great deal of data file in the office of the bureau and
ii arranged in such that is easy of access by its
officers and members the bureau decides to get into this
fight it will much to the people, because that organza
ton has the information that is needed
The laws of Utah prohibit a combination to raise the price
of the products of the SOIL and they prescribe way by which
the matter may be investigated and the offending companies
hassed They provide that in the event that the companies
in the combination served with notice to dissolve the
bnation and do not do that proceedings shall be begun
against them and the companies dissolved.
There would to be ample prma facie evidence that
there combination here coal producers to raise the
price The price increased by the Utah Fuel company and
by the independent companies at about the time
That the price exorbant shown by the fact that for
the Rio Grande railroad sold coal to the Southern Pacific rail
road at Ogden for $175 ton
There ample evidence also of combination among the
retail coal dealers They their raise in price all
the day. the price uniform and there is no danger of
it being shaded by anybody because the minute that done
the offending finds that he is unable to get any
coal sell When coal bids asked by any public nsti
tuition, collision among bidders is always shown.
The Commercial Club Traffic bureau has all the evidence
that possible for anybodyt obtain outside court Of law
That evidence ought be placed the proper shape and filed
at with the secretary Of state There time to lose
Winter here and the consumption of coal is increasing daily
Every day of delay that the coal trust will be able to
dig deeper into the pockets OF the producers and rob them
of their hard earnings Quick action is necessary
If the coal be cotched it will be of the best
movements begun for Salt Lake The high price of coal
here undoubtedly fghens many people away from the city
and state The people deserve that something should be done
and the traffic strike better blow for the people
ard for the than get into this coal fight with all its
energy put the of the people the evidence has that
there coal combination in Utah that absolutely dictates
the price, dictates the number of dealers there shall be- and in
fact controls the coal situation absolutely.
the plain intent of the law that only sufficient evidence
shall be shown which to base Everybody in Utah
knows there is coal combination and everybody knows Is
and alright 1t not reasonable to suppose that
there Is no means get redress This is excellent
time to learn whether the law good Ii the law tested
and will bring the desired results, then the legislature
which meets IN few weeks will undoubtedly be In the humor
10 enact that will dc the work There nineteen
COMMITTEES IN the state affected by the coal trust and they do
ing great deal of talking in each OF the counties about It,
The members of the legislature from each OF those counties
getting the opinions of their constituents and they are
finding their constituents pretty near being IMAM
ous in demanding that something be done that will
them from clutches of this trust that is fattenng off the
people of the state
Inst what the legislature will do unless there is relief
it is impossible to tell this time The longer that relief
Is deferred intense becomes the indignation of the
p and the ervent their desire that the trust be dealt
blow that will bring it to its senses