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'GOIUPI3RS ASSERTS FINANCIERS
CAUSED COAL STRIKE ORDER
A Washington special to Tho New
York Timos, dated March 26 says:
Domination of. tho coal industry hy
financial interests, including the Unit
ed States Steel Corporation and sev
eral of tho railroads, is largely re
sponsible for the attitude now mani
fested by mine operators and the dan
gor of a coal strike, Samuel Compers
President of the American Federa
tion of Labor, asserted tonight.
Proilts of the coal industry wero
manipulated, he asserted, to hide the
real earnings, tfnd on this false basis
oporators demanded low wages for
the workers.
"Control of . tho mining industry
has, to an effective degree, been taken
from thd hands of actual operating
men into the hands of tho purely fi
nancial interests," said Mr. Gompers.
"Financial interests have one chief
interest, which is financial. All
things must give way to pro.flts. What
now is happening in the mining in
dustry happened a decade ago m the
railroad business.
"The United States Steel Corpora
tion, operated purely for financial re
turns on a policy dictated by financial
expediency, or what seems to De ex
pediency, controls vast bituminous
coal interests. Steel interests in Ala
bama control vast bituminous proper
ties in that state. Coal mines oper
ated by such concerns are operated
as wheels in a great profit-making
machine, and it is impossible for prac
tical coal management to have any ef
fective voice in the making of poli
cies. "The hearings before the Commit
tee on Manufactures of the United
States Senate in 1921 on the question
of the publication of the production
and profits in coal revealed that
seyen railroads control 96 per cent
of the output of anthracite coal in
the United States. Ninety per cent
of this is by ownership and 6 per
cent by contract. These railroads are
the Reading Company, Delaware,
Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Le
high Valley Railroad, Erie interests,
Delaware & Hudson Company, Penn
sylvania Railroad, New York, Ontario
& Western Railroad and Lehfgh
Coal & Navigation Company.
"In this manner the financial In
terests of Wall Street camouflage
thoir ownership of the coal industry.
The profits from the operations in the
coal industry are not to be found in
the reports of the coal. mines tnem
selves, but in the dividend reports of
the railroads. The ultimate cost to
the consumer is increased by the ex
orbitant freight rates and the ulti
mate consumer pays these dividends.
"Reports for the year ended 1921
show that these companies made ex
orbitant profits. The Delaware
Lackawanna & Western Company de
clared a stock dividend in Aueust of
100 per cent; it paid $11.32 a share
dividends on this watered stock. Its
net earnings for the year were $19,
000,000. Its coal holdings made this
possible.
"The Delaware & Hudson Com
pany's surplus of $2,900,000 came
from coal holdings. The railroads
with coal holdings acquired exorbit
ant profits in comparison with the
average income o,f railroads in the
United States. 9
"The profits of ho coal industry
are manipulated so as to appear mod
erate or so as to show the. company
operating at a loss in order that
wages of miners maybo maintained
at the lowest conceivable level. These
financing methods of bankers and
fevn.rill!road sterns alone resulted
in $500,000,000 of fictitious or un
necessary securities on the basis of
which tho coal industry is milked
for $20,000,000 in dividends annual
ly. "Suppression -of these facts war,
the purpose of the injunction against
the Federal Trade Commission which
was recently obtained vby the "mine
owners.
"The effarts of the constructive
forces in our government" to obtain
dissemination of tho truth about the
coal industry through the publication
of tho production and 'profits in coal
have come to naught.
"So long as purely financial Inter
ests control tho operating policy In
any industry, that policy is certain to
be destructive, because human needs
are overlooked in tho race for a bal
ance sheet showing. That is one
vital defect in the coal industry, per
haps the chief factor in the fixing of
the ruthless policy which has brought
about the crisis which is impending."
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MEAT SALES COSTS SOAR
The cost of selling meat through
retail stores is nearly double what
it was in 1913, or 5.86 cents a pound
in 1921 compared to 3.19 cents a
pound in 1913, according to a survey
just completed by the United States
Department of Agriculture. The cost
of retailing meat in all types of
stores in 1919 was found to be: Of
each dollar spent by the consumer for
meat, 81.14 cents was spent by the
retailer for meat at wholesale; 16.57
cents represented the expense of re
tailing and 2.29 cents the retailer's
net profit.
This investigation is one of a series
dealing with the cost of distributing
foods to the consumer and covered
thirty cities with 3,507 retail meat
stores. Complete account of more
than 400 stores were analyzed for the
year 1919-20, and- supplementary
studies were made for 1921 by Her
bert C. Marshall of the Bureau of
Markets and Crop Estimates.
The items of expense in meat re
tailing were: Salaries and wages,
10.25 cents put of each dollar of
sales; rent, 1.33; ice and refrigera
tion, 0.77; wrappings, 0.76; heat,
light and power, 0.2L; interest, 0.51;
miscellaneous expenses, 2.74; making
total operating expenses of 16.57
cents on each dollar of sales.
Wages were the largest single item
in the cost of retailing meats,
amounting to 61.86 per cent ot gross
expenses in 1919. The averae-n wjip
"of meat cutters increased from 32
cents an hour in 1913 to 60.8 cents
an hour in 1920, and declined only
slightly to 60.7 cents per hour in
1921. The wage cost -of retailing
$100 worth of meat in 191 3 'was
$14.82, while the same item for the
same quantity of meat costing
$125.77 in 1921 was $27.87. While
the wholesale price of meat declined
from 1919 to 1921, the qost of retail
ing meat increased, and. the princi
pal items wages, rent, ice, refrig
eration and miscellaneous expense
continued almost as high in 1921 as
in 1920. Labor costs are also in
volved hi other retailing expense
items, such as refrigeration, wrap
pings, heat, light and power.
The net profit oV retail meat dis
tributers averaged 2.29 per cent of
sales for all stores, being 2.17 for in
dividual stores and 3.39 for chain
stores. There was a wide range of
net profit shown for stores of various
sizes, ranging from about 2 per cent
of sales for those doing an annual
business o,f less than $25,000 to an
everage of about 2.75 per cont of
sales for stores doing a business of
over $200,000. The net profit for
carry stores was 2.25 per cent of
sales, compared with 2.13 for de
livery stores.
In seventy-seven individual mar
kets far which a special study was
made of tho expense of delivering tho
meats actually delivered, the expense
was found to bo 6.72 per cent of ?he
in& Price of the goods delivered
whereas the delivery expense when
spread over total sales was only 2 62
per cent, as stated above. In delivery
stores only about 40 per cent of the
goods are delivered, the rest beine
was 18.8 per cont of sales, the saZ
as for the individual meat markeTs
The chain-store systems had lower
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