The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-10-26
|GH PRICE
6|FCOALMAY
Be REDUCED
narstors Meet in Cleve.
md to Cut Exorbitant,
Overcharge.

f,reland, Ohio, Oct. 26.-Approx-
.ealy 1000 of the 1000 soft coal
rstors in the United States. rep
nting every bituminous produc-
= district, met here today at the
/ n Of Colonel d. B. Wentz, presi-
~ 81 the National Coal associa-
1n TO consider the telegram sent
/ = tAe association last week by At
1n.ey General A. Mitchell Palmer.
RI telegram urged that steps be
[hkn to eliminate exhorbitant
|rees for bituminous coal at the
1hes.
/ That resolution favoring fair
|mA reasonable" prices, with only q
,oosonable profit for the owners,
~ supposed to be adopted. was
rpdicted by operators previous to
| y going into the conference hail.
frices already have dropped in
6ay places, it was declared. Rep
|Ipeentatives from the West Vir-
||hia and Pittsburgh districts as
srted breaks in prices had taken
lice there.
Besides, prices from every angle
+ 4 the coal situation, including the
DDaibility of shortage, the car
gupply and other transport Ques-
taas, we're threshed out. Little
hnger exists of serious winter
Aertases anywhere in the opinion
4 operators.
While grave DEFICIENCIES existed in
n supply of domestic coal in Ohio.
jrdAna, Michigan, Eastern Ten
|iasse and western Pennsylvania
u 70 three weeks ago, these, Col
III Wentz stated are steadily be-
k Wercome. Under the new pro-
Inn put into effect under the inter-
ltats commerce commissions order
II MOtt. 5. embracing $1,000 cars a
~, or los, 900 tons of soft coal, the
e1ency wants of this territory
tn'heing filled as rapidly as can
b moved
Emergency Wants.
The emergency wants Of the mid
d vest and the east have been
hken up by the operators, he con-
t9ued, and great quantities Of soft
Al In the meantime have been
hshed up to the Great Lakes for
tans-shipment to northwestern
points. So far has this progressed,
s said, that it noW appears that
The northwest would have approxi-
nately the 22,O00,000 tons estimated
v necessary for winter uses.
As soon as the Great Lakes sup
Ny has been sent up. toward the
I'd Of November. 100000 tons
NM going to the northwest by that
route, Colonel Wentz said, will be
Nleased for the remainder Of the
country.
For the last three weeks, Colonel
hentz stated, soft coal production
~ exceeded l2,O00,000 tons a week,
Ne goal fixed by the operators as
eecessary to insure adequate sup
plles everywhere in the country for
immediate uses and for the win
H IL this output is maintained,
e said. there would be no doubt
wy every part of the country will
ave sufficient coal.
10 insure against any contin-
Nacy OF failure to carry out the op-
us!ors program. Colonel Wentz
sIlared it was imperative for the
Mifoads to continue giving cars
noogh to ship 12.0O0.00O tons
'sekly, well into the winter.
Want Wage Raise.
Philadelphia. Pa, Oct. 26. - Re-
saes's for changes in the recent
Mard OF the presidential wage COM
assion were made by representa-
ava OF the anthracite mine workers
Nie today at conference with the
~ operators committee. A state.
1 embodying these requests
- orawn up by the scale commit
Nm the three anthracite districts
- meeting yesterday in Hazel.
A!'nough the statement was moi
sae public, it was learned from
ul sources that the men woult
~ ~ wage advances equal to those
~r~Ned to the soft coal miners
10y also will ask for . higher
~ Aa'num wage rate, restoration o.
enerentials that were elimi
v through the minimum wage
80 80 n1ed by the anthracite commits
.a majority award, and other al