Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-02

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1yI 1hDoI ................... $b,BO N,1,
General expense ooc'........ .......... Us o,s1l
Total mine cost. ......... $40 Se.s1
operator's margin as shown
"ooFo - .......... O.TO O.6l
r Total {; 2; b. mine price. 1910 s5.2s
TRANSFORMATION to New York 201 2.3t
Perriuge ................. 900 0.4s
Total cost to dealer. .S11.21 5000
Dealers cost OF distribution.
marsain and proflts. ..... 0.2e
Retailers price .......... 1ls. 80
The steam sizes Of anthracite are
not, as claimed by some, by-products
OF manufacture, as are tar. ammonia
and gas In the manufacture Of coke. or
fertilizing products in slaughter
house. They 90 through exactly the
same processes of screening and clean
Ing as do the domestic sizes; they are
sold below the cost of production. and
while the revenue from them forms a
part of the total income, 1t IS not re-
covery from by-products that can be
considered as reducing the cost Of man i
ufacture.
II might go into the question Of the
different costs of production, between
the northern and southern anthracite
regions continued Mr.. Warriner.
I'm the northern the coal beds lie fiat,
while in the middle or Lehigh region
and the southern or Schuylkill region
they are folded and distorted and most
of the mining operations must be con-
Quoted on steep pitches. They pro-
duce lower percentage Of domestic
sizes and higher percentage Of steam
sizes, in addition to greater cost of
mining.
81 have endeavored to clarity in a
comprehensive way this subject, which
is very complicated one. 1t involves
close and intricate calculation but, as
I said, we are prepared to submit these
and all other facts and figures to a
scientific commission that will examine
everything in a fair and unbiased way.
We cannot make a more explicit prop
osition than that"
There is another issue that Is Of
equally great Importance. said. ut
Is that when the Federal Trade Com
mission was in the way OF making an
investigation Of your books to ascertain
the matter Of profits. or was about to
do so, you obtained an injunction which
prevented it from going ahead
Never Objected to Probe
$50 far as the Federal Trade Com
mission is concerned, the anthracite
operators have never raised any objec-
ton to its investigation, was the
reply. "Instcad we have always fully
co operated with 1t. We did point
out to the miners, however, that these
Investigations at this particular time
would not in the slightest expedite the
settlement Of the wage and other ques-
tions before us, or help to get the min
ers at work as quickly as possible"
ave did not. It is another perver-
sion of the facts. What led to that I'm
preston was that soft-coal corpora
ton. the Maynard Coal Company, I do
not recall just where they are located,
went into court and obtained an in
junction prohibiting the Trade Commis-
sion from proceeding with its investi-
cations with them along the line you
have indicated. and the commission
stopped Its work right there.
"Let me say further and emphati-
cally," he continued. that the anthra-
cite operators had no hand in that
transaction. We knew nothing about
the court proceedings till the facts be.
came public.
"As / have said, we have always
willingly co-operated with, the Federal
Trade Commission, and hav. published
such information as they desired. Full
reports on the anthracite trade have
been made to it up until recent date"
1T Is charged by the miners that the
selling corporations and wholesale agen-
cies reap vast profits from their favor
able position to the trade that the pro-
ducers are really also the selling agen-
cies and corporations, l continued.
$50 far as our company, the Le-
high Coal and Navigation Company, is
concerned, we have no selling company.
We sell directly to the retailer and con-
sumer. I must say, however, that as
far as the alleged selling agencies main
tained by other companies 20. they sell
their coal in competition with ours" he
'What companies have selling agen-
cies?'
$50 far AZ I know there arc only two
tho Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western and the Leh1gh Valley Coal
Company.
V"LLSu vi IVY oiticS
"What about the matter Of exorbi-
tant royalties paid by some of the COM
paniesf'
II cannot speak personally, as our
company holds Its lands in fec and has
done so for many years. The fact Is,
however, that the matter Of royalties is
ono Of lesser Importance. The Girard
estate, Of this city, Is charged by the
miners with demanding high royalties,
but only about per cent of all the tom
mage Of the region is produced from its
"What is your view Of the situation
In the anthracite region? What is to be
the solutioni" ! inquired.
"Mr. Lewis has declared that there
will be no settlement in the anthracite
ield until the bituminous issue is ad-
justcd," replied Mr.. Wurriner.
"For the last twenty years, or since
he Roosevelt Commission acted, tho
anthracite operators and miners have
operated under their own agreements.
During that period, or till 1920, we rec
,gnIzed the mine workers organization
ls tho party with whom we dealt in |
to the Roosevelt agreement.
I'm 1920 the Wilson Commission,
ollowing renewed pledges by the work.
RS leaders that the anthracite miners
we're an autonomous body and inde- |
PENDENT. directed that a contract be |
igned with the United Mine Workers
II America Notes of our meetings then |