Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1912 — PROBE HARD COAL PRICES [ARTICLE]

PROBE HARD COAL PRICES

House Adopts Resolution Calling on Secretary of Commerce to Begin an Inquiry. Washington, July 30.—The house adopted a resolution calling upon the secretary of commerce and labor to inquire into “the different elements of cost and profit included in the present high price of anthracite.” Representative Difenderfer of Pennsylvania, Democrat, author of the resolution, dedared that a “hard coal trust” existed.