The Coquille Valley sentinel., May 22, 1925, Page 5, Image 5

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Purged at non-esaen-
I tials, conditions were found to ba
without • recant parallel in our to-
dustrial life.
The coal industry, one,-iugh
I of thd Government told me, ia
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going the pains of contraction at the
present time. It baa long been rec­
ognised aa a dufferer from over-de-
I velopment. -For yuan we have had
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half aa many minea again aa we
Lneeded, half as many workmen again
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as were necessary to meet our aver­
age normal demands
We are now getting rid of the ex­
cess
mines and workmen, as this offi­
Advertising Batea
cial saw it, by the fcimple though
Display advertising, 25 cents per [painful process of eliminating the un­
inch; less than 5 inches, 30 cents per
inch. No advertisement inserted for desirables. In a pack of hungry and
less than SO canto. Reading notices savage animals it might be/called the
10 cents per line. No reading notice, survival of th* fittest. In the coal in­
or advertisement of any kind, insert­ dustry it is the long-awaited deflation,
ed for less than 25 cento.
overdue for years, that inevitably
comes to every business after a great I
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war.
I Every other large industry in the!
I country, has already, readjusted its I
I affairs. The coal industry alone hast
not. Too many mines, too many.men, I
I a wage scale still up in the clouds— |
I these were the outward and visible
I signs seen by my mentor aa the
symptoms of the violent internal dis-
I turbance, a disturbance which seems
I destined either te make ar break the
$3,000;000/)00 soft-coal industry of
the United States.
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Take the factor of too many mines
first. Everybody in the industry rec­
ognises now that it ia over-developed.
Some of the leading men have recog­
nised this basic trouble for years.
Lately the knowledge has become
[general in the trade.
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What has been the result? The I
natural one, at course; everywhere I
mines have closed down. In some I
fields literally hundreds of coal mines |
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Made of
SUPERIOR ALL - LEATHER QUALITY
HIGH STANDARD OF WORKMANSHIP
ATTRACTIVE UP TO - DATE STYLES
EASY, WELL*FITTING LASTS
MAXIMUM
WEARING
COMFORT
The price of Star Brand Shoe« ia made «o that ev­
eryone can have a pair of shoes that will give the best
for the money they pay.
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Two Stores
COQUILLE—MYRTLE POINT
When Better Merchandise Is Made We Will Sell It
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have been shut down with a perman­
ency that looks as if it were made for
years.
Voluntarily end aa a self-
sacrifice for the good of the indus­
try? Certainly not; in response to
the ruthless working of the econbmic
[ law against waste.
They -have been closing down all
winter, these soft-coal mines, with a
regularity that has chilled the blood
of the tens of thousands of workers,
io whom they have meant a liveli­
hood. And they are still closing
down. Hundreds closed down, many
•f them for years/, it is thought, on
April 1, the beginning of the new coal
year. And still others are to dose
down in the near future.
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—to get the business. Coal ia a drug
on the market, and to get the business
these non-union fellows not only had
to bid against union coal but had to
outbid one another.
' “They are making their selling
prices down to cost, just to kpep the I
And genemdly when they go tjgek ov­
er their flgusit they find that, Ihstead
of exam cost, they've marked their
prieee down below cost. They’re los-1
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ing money—nearly all of them.”
Inklings had drippedinto the press I
from time to time, but never so «lean. I
cut a Statement as this of conditions
in the opal industry today. My ac­
quaintance’s gloomy picture seemed
worth looking at more closely. Per-1
haps the Government bureaus dealing I
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A contrast, indeed, this talk, with
the independence and cocksureness of
the industry during the profitable
period just after the last big strike,
so I pressed him for details.
“How about the non-union opera­
tors?” I asked. “They haven’t any
W«r-time wage sctle. What’s wrong
with them?”
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“No," he said, “you’re right. They
haven’t got high wages to bather
them. They’re mining more coal and
going broke faster than ever in their
lives before.
They're paying 1S17
wages now, from what < hear—tWy
don’t publish their figures^ you knew
—digging coal cheaply and runaitg
away with all the union markets.
<• “They’ve got almost all the busi­
ness they can handle, and there it
ends. There isn’t one in a hundred
that’s making a dollar a week. The
, trouble -is . they’ve cut one another’s
throats ■ Mashed ’em from ear to ear
by envfronement, play« an important
part in shaping the destinies of •oci-
«ty. It la my opinion that people
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