The evening world. Newspaper, December 3, 1918, Page 5

THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1918. cen you can now DIAMONDS it W GLUE WHE QUALITY 5% Discov (3 IWO'Nassau Street ~Ne quickly B GUITERESONS | BPEOUAL P BARGAINS BABY CARRIAGES RANDALL'S! LEGISLATION FAVORED | INFIKING RESALE PRICES 7 ‘ ageney was recommended to Congress) to-day in a special report by the Fed- | eral. Frade Commission: | This agency would have power to consider the. claims presented and de- the merits of the prices cide upon asked by the producer | The Supreme Court has ruled that nds of establishing and Trad prices arq restraint pel Manufacturers to Submit — | : WASHING Dec, 3,—Legisiation bndhL gl week as yaen under. spite, | ailing mat rt h ment for aciaticn In Roosevelt Hospital, compelling manufacturers who desire tolnad a restful night and is feeling fine, fix and niaintain resale prices to subd-|sccording to a statement at the hospital | mit their mr sts to a Governmental'this morning. | « |Lehigh Co.’s President Does |Coat and Navigation Company. Cold on Chest, Pleurisy . {Quickest Pain and Ache Killer on | ,,.! 1 a} muster | Earth—Neural; Backache, Headache Go in 5 Minutes on Mustarine for any | thousands You'll know that ail | caused by wore, bu ». |and callouses. Pining and. froate > Heev'a in the yellow box. STOPS PAIN committee's Theae employed at the elphia, jomployees kept statistics on all au thracite matters, particularly ship ments to various communities and ai- |lotments to the different zones. The ee had nothing to do with By Sophie Irene Loeb. Staff Correspondent of The Eve ning World.) Pais) WABHINGEUN! : ee | prices, he stated, as these were fixed ohysicians| morning session of the Senate Coal | from Washington, “Do I understand all coal prices were fixed by Dr. Garfield and the joperators had nothing to do with it Ps it if tion’ thra- | 1 sure i'8! o¢ the Fuel Administration's An’ endept Gy PrEsUAthiy Wight They: coh |cite Committee at Philadelphia, © | ceived to be fair prices at the time lene functions of this committee and | the prices were set?” he was asked. gout. Suna medias pave felted | Ca as taken up by examina- overcame tia misery | ommittee wai : " _ na feet. corna, buntons a rive, ew Mustarina’ ‘tor chit. | ton ¢ Samuel D, Warr! an) PIA and deep. PRICE OF GOAL IS INGREASED | uted as soon as the couris pass on & a member, allotted coal throughout “little” matter involving seventy mill-| the country. It developed that his as- fon dollars’ capital, not counting mill- | sociates were Mr. Dixon, also a large ions of tons of unmined coal operator, and W. J. Richards, teed Was anxious to other large coal operator and Prea- jident of the f iphia and Reading » figured Coal and Iron Company. t have n c t seoma that by an arrangement wag r Reed What! vith Dr, Garfield and Mr. J. D. A. Morrow, who has charge of the bi Mr. Warriner could not tell, al-| tuminous distribution, a play was though he had a number of figures as| adopted by which the main anthracite various kinds of labor cost. The wit-| production was directed toward the ness promised to produce the| Kastern States. This distribution committee the figures on costs which | method resulted in many people who enter Into a ton of coal had formerly used anthracite in other Senator Reed made considerable in- | States being deprived of Ite use. fn |quiry into the manner if which this | committee, of which Mr, Warriner ts} (Continued on Sixth Page.) 5th Avenue dames McCreary & Co. ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY > BOS Fee Areata USTARIN cANNOT BLISTER v night. 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The witness was asked to bring to the commiltes all circulars issaed | within the last year, | Senator Reod questioned the witness | as to his knowledge of competition between the Lehigh Company and the Philadelphia and Reading Coal jand Iron Company, Mr. Warriner could not name any specific instances | | where these concerns had cut each | other's prices, PLANNED CANAL COAL AND RAIL CONTROL IN 1840. Senator Reed wanted to know if the | Lehigh Coal and Navigation Com- | pany was a “Railroad Coal Company.” | The witness would not admit his con cern came within the classification of a raflroad-controlled company | Mr. Warriner outlined the early history of his com) showing that it planned as early as 1840 to acquire control of the canal, the railroad companies and the coal. | Senator Reed tried to ascertain the soparate cost of acquiring or con structing the canal and railroad, but the witness maintained these charges | were not carried separately on the | books of the navigution company. The figures on cost of production of @ ton of coal at the mines con- trolled by Mr. Warriner’s company were given as follows:. 1914, $2.33; 1915, $2.28; 1916, $2.61; 1917, $2.99; ‘1918 (ten months), $3.82, Senator Vardaman followed up the guuestion of the proportionate increase in miners’ wages and prices of coal The witness stated these figures ments anticipated. worked out by the engineers’ com- mittee of the Fuel Administration and he could not supply the exact figures. The method of fixing ware increases was given in detail by Mr. Warriner, was fixed by the of competing Senator Vardaman wanted to know the method followed in ar- riving at the price of a ton of coal, The witness said this w done by Government on the b: of reports made to the Federal Trade Commission and the Fuel Administration. ; SEEK MORE LIGHT ON INCREASE IN COAL PRICE. | In further examination of Mr. War riner, Senator R bers of the on who stated the base wage pproximate wage ndustries, and other mem- mittee hoped to Ket more light on whether the recent rise of $1.05 a ton in the price of coal {commensurate with the raise in wages. Mr. Warriner was examined |along this line yest ly could not satisfactory to witness said the ave miner only mines one and four-tenths tons of a day. » rate for common labor was a at 30 cents per hour. 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