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SAYS HELPS.
COAL PROF|TEE:hS
Ford Declares Board Plays Into
Hands Of Sharks.
SCHEME TO FLEECE PUBLIC
Automobile Manufacturer Asserts Cor
troll of Empty Coal Cars Keeps
Prices Soaring.

Prices Soaring.
Detroit, Sept. 14.-Charges that III,
Interstate commerce commission
through its control of empty coal cars
is playing into The hands of Goa
profiteerS under guise of regulation:
for the public good We're made here
in Il statement issued by Henry Fore
from his offices INF Dearborn. Il sui ~
The same Interests who OWN tht
public utilities, roads and mines AK
using the commission as part of theil
scheme to fleece The public, and tht
scheme is 50 simple that nobody see:
it, FOrd'S statement, issued here con
linucd.
The present >o-caIled coal crisis
shows up the commission. If thiS com
miS>;Gn ever WHS useful it now hu>
outlived lis usefulness like the @oit
standard and Wall street
Discussing alleged coal protirHerS
Ford declared Through newspaper
head lines they spread propa gam Il
about Il coal shortage 50 thai every
body Starts s,ralnj,i.u1 for crHl. Fur
therIIure, by >qHrezimg labor and re-
ducim@ their pay these same intrrts.
call>,. strikes and throw the rui!ruiI,i.
into commissions. Immediately cultil:-
down The available car supply viii
which t" transport coal
"Eaving convinced the public there
,.it,,
Selve. through The commission under
she guis2 of priority for public utiIi,
ties. These utilities tuen take adYan
tagr # these conditions ny pAyin@
high prices for coal anp III turn can
raise rates to the public.
II Is .iASt Il little camoutla@p. bun
as in every deep-iuid scheme ny this
crowd. we sec the money coming from
the public ami fluWilI" into the Golfers
of Wall street
III the government had desired il
easily could h"V" stepped i'll and @iveh
tile public all the coal il needed. why
should 4 let tie labor board set the
wage for TIE. railroad crafts 50 faI
beio"- q Twin" wage that they Wuutu
strike: WHEY should the Interstate
commerce. commission permit the
10. ! ,.r ana Nashville railroad carry
Ii $40 JH,o0O surplus to keep an Insult
ticirnt ont-tgack road SERVING he IloSl
productive coal fields and producing
the highest grades IF by-pruduct IN
,he country?
The commission should have insist,
Cd that the l.. and y build adequate
facilities into the heart of Ills great
coal region, but instead in weak in.
activity it sits idly by seeing the cou,l-
try'> fuel resources frightened by 3
sign from Wall street
"Everybody admits the mines can
be made 10 produce coal but the com
mission allows Wall street to so ma
nipula5e and artificiaIIy create IL ca1
shortage Is to befuddle the public into
accepting a scarcity of coal and buying
at protiteers' prices. Wall streets
avarice will take advantage of public
need as long as the people will sit by
and stand for it.
with Il wonderful opportunity fol
public service the |. c. c. widely miss
eS the mark. Instead OF controlling
the railroads. the members of he con-
mission are p WINS in the hands Of the
New York CLIQUE that wants to ma,;-
tain this industrial disturbance as he.
ing the best means for large and quick
protiteering.
Sweeping denial of statement gis-
en- out i'll Cincinnati September 10y
Ernest f. HeaSley, president OF the
American Export and Inland Coal com.
pany, 10 the effect thai the Ford No
tor company was negotiating with him
for coal with which to keep the Ford
plants here in operation was made by
high officials of the Ford company.
At the same time it was announced
that so far as now is known the
Ford plants will be closed September
II, as announced some time ago hyI
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