The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-07-24
COVE RNOR TRIES
To AVERT COAL
PRICE SOARING
Attorney General Called in by
McCray in Effort to Cope
With Profiteering.
COST MOVES UPWARD
High Quotations Are Heard of
From Many Points Where
Fuel Is Being Sought.

Official action to stop profiteering lii
coal was contemplated by Governor
McCray today. Reports Of high
prices because of the mine and rail
road strikes reached him from all
parts of the State and called in At
torney General Lesh TO determine
what action could be taken.
The Governor said he could not take
direct action in profiteering cases but
hoped TO find means Of combating un-
fair prices.
\ dispatch from Evansville said
Chicago brokers were offering So a
ton for coal f. o. b. Evansville, while
Kentucky operators are said 10 have
received offers as high as SO and
s11.
S11.93 for Mine Run
A telegram from Terre Haute said
an Ohio distributing firm was asking
IS a ton for mine run, which with the
freight rate Of $3.50 per ton, would
run the total cost to S11.93.
Charles Kemp Of the Kemp Broth
ers' Packing Company of Frankfort
has appealed to the Governor for i'm
mediate relief from soaring prices
which are becoming prohibitive to
Gamers.
Governor McCray received an an
swer to his second telegram TO John
Hessler. president of the United Mine
Workers Of America of the Terre
Haute district, in which Hessler again
refused to meet with members of the
scale committee of the mine operators.
Hessler maintained his stand that
this act would be against the policy OF
the National Union.
He said he was willing to meet the
Governor with others of his colleagues.
The Governor answered he would con
fer with the miners tomorrow morn
ing at $50 o'clock, the time set for
the general conference.
Hessler. according to his telegram
to the Governor. is not willing to en-
ter into any settlement that would not
be national in effect.
Operators in Session
Coal operators in Indiana, between
fifty and a hundred in number, met
at the Claypool Hotel TO discuss, and
perhaps take action upon the Govern
or's invitation to resume action at the
mines.
Questionnaires sent out by the pub
lie service commission to all coal US
ing utilities of the State. Saturday,
will furnish the commission and the
Governor with information concerning
the coal supply. A few answers were
received. One utility reported it had
paid SI.15 a ton April l and that the
last bought had cost 81 per ton.
0gIe Makes Statement
Alfred NJ Ogle. president of the Ma
tional Association of Bituminous Oper-
ators. made the following statement;
THE union operators want it clearly
and emphaticaily understood that they
are in favor of the immediate appoint
nent Of a fact-finding tribunal They
are united in desiring that al facts
in the union bituminous coal fields
be given to the public at the earliest
possible date. and that these facts be
had from a commission that shall be
non partisan and impartial. The pub
lie is entitled 10 this information and
the Government needs it,
Governor McCray has written a let
ter 10 Harold A. Henderson, Terre
Haute. general counsel of the United
Mine Workers Of America, in which
he outlined his policy and explain
ing TO some extent the plan whicr
ne would adopt in case an early settle
ment was not reached.