Arizona republican., 1919-12-24
Where The People
 May Have a Hearing
He Loses His Bet

ne Loses 7fS 0et
 Judge A. B. Anderson is, it seems, barking up the wrong tree. He's vast ing too much of his valuable time on little game" He's letting the wolf go unnoticed. For instance
 Alonzo Newcomb, plain. ordinary stand in Judge Anderson's court room.
 Doesn't it seem that you are all in a conspiracy to milk, the public asked the judge.
 Well. replied the coal miner who isn't mining coal now, 'I don't know about milking the pubic, but we min CTS get S4>cents d ton for digging the coal down in the mine. The mine on orator sells us that same coal for S2.20 ton, and We have to haul 1t home.
 There it is: Eeighty-four cents for picking and shoveling 2O00 pounds of coal down in the cavern where all ways miners stand shoulder to shoul- der with dangers unknown to surface workers, gases, explosions, slides; ana one dollar thirty-six cents for the op- orator who sits in the safe and com fortable office.
 Milking the public? Of course. But who2 The coal digger or the coal op orator? For digging coal-S4 cents. for watching another dig coal-$1.36. To anyone who isn't federal judge it appears easy enough to find the milker.
 If we were in Judge Anderson's shoes we wouldn't waste so much time on the s4-cent miner; we would go after that s1.36 operator. We'd get him into our court, on the stand, and talk to him about the evils of milk ing the public Then, maybe, the milking might be stopped.
 Phoenix. Ariz., Dec. Is, 1919. To the Editor of The Republican,:
 breckon that the fellow that put the article above in this mornings paper knows about as much about the mining game do and never was in a mine in my life nor do I think that I ever saw a coal miner in my lifetime, but 1 can look at a business prospect from a common sense viewpoint and mo- from the point taken by the writer of the above piece of damphoolishness. He evidently is a Red unionist.
 Granted the miner gets 84 cents for his labor. Granted also that the op- orator gets s2.20 for the same amount of coal after it is in the bins on the surface. Then, according to this dr. tiele the operator clears s1.36.
 What fools these mortals be-.
 I would like to know where the money comes from to pay for the items of cost the coal that the miner dug for S4 cents.
 First. Who pays for the power to lower the miner to his work?
 o6cOIlu. W IlO pays TUT lut tOOlS tlt miner uses to dig this coal?
 Third Who pays to have these tools kept in good order?
 Fourth. Who pays to have the car erun to the place needed to suit the run to the hoist?
 mine?
 Fifth. Who plays to have the car filled with the coal?
 Sixth. Who pays to have the coal Seventh. Who pays to have the car hoist to the surface?
 Eighth. Who pays to have the car run to the breaker?
 Ninth. Who pays the, men for the labor to sort and clean the coal?
 Tenth. Who pays to have the coal shot to the bins for storage?
 As I said before I never saw mine in my life and don't know the opera tions required to dispose of the coal After the miner has furnished the la Dor to the extent of S4tcents until it is in a condition to sell to hin at S2.20 but I can imagine that the 10 items above are at least a part of the number, and I wish our friend, the writer, would make diIigent inquiry into the cost of those few items, and then add to the sum of the several items just interest on the amount of capital the operator has invested in the mine and the plant and reduce it to the amount per ton and add it to the several items above, then de- duct the amount from the s1.36 (sup- posed profit) on the ton of coal first mentioned in the article. We will then have somathing of an idea as to the cost of the ton of coal to the miner at s2.20 on which the miner was paid S4 cents to dig, and which he claim the operator has made $1.36 profit.
 What blind idiots 90 per cent of these union men are.
 I will bet dollar (iron) that vnf are afraid to put both of the abov. in one of your articles.
 Yours as of old,
 OLD TIMER.
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