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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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Hub Clothing & Shoe Co.
Phone 100 j
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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(O.H.)
—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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