Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 94, 20 April 1922 — Page 3

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1922

FAGE THREE

What the Coal Strike Costs By FREDERIC J. HASKIN

WASHINGTON. D. C. April 20. Government intervention in the coal strike, or some official action to relieve the situation, was promised "when the- situation becomes acute," or when the public begins to feel the pinch of the coal shortage. There are experts who contend that the public was pinched from the moment the strike was threatened, and such of these experts as are not engaged on one side or the other of the wage controversy are now busy computing the costs of the strike. Their figures are at once Interesting and startling. The average citizen probably goes his serene way without a thought that

the coal strike is hurting him until suddenly he finds that he cannot get coal when he wants it, or must pay a higher price than he was charged .for his last order, and it is at this average citizen that the experts are aiming their broadsides of statistics. Thus David L. Wing, who has studied the coal problem for years, says: "Since every cost or waste in coal production, whether it be of natural resources, or man power, or of capital, must eventually be borne by the coal consumer, it is not enough for the man in the street merely to read the news of threatened strikes, grumble over high prices and talk of profiteering and summary legislation. He must realize that this is a problem which he too must cooperate in solv

ing, by bringing about an intelligent public opinion without which no sound and equitable settlement of the coal problems of thi3 country is possible." From 1910 to 1918 strikes caused 10.6 per cent of the idle days in the bituminous coal industry. The fig

ure for the year 1919 was still larger.

ers outside the coal industry upon whom idleness is forced by reason of the strike. Thousands of railroad workers were laid off the first week of the strike one system alone laying off 16,000 and their number will be added to as the strike continues or becomes more effective. Other

thousands of workers who handle

coal somewhere along the line be

tween the railroad terminal and the

consumer's bin likewise will have Idle

ness tnrust upon tnem, and passing

from them to the workers in marni

facturlng establishments that cannot

operate without coal yet another

wage loss item Is to be chalked up. In the early days of a strike such as the one now under consideration only the haziest estimate can be made as to its direct effect upon other industries, for reports of shutdowns are of necessity imcomplete and notoriously inaccurate. It may be significant to note, however, that a largo steel mill in Youngstown, Ohio, that had been closed down for a long period wa3 scheduled to resume work the first week in April and did not do so because of the strike and threatened coal shortage, and that other steel plants in the Pittsburgh district

were closing down or reducing their

scale of operations within a few days after the strike was called. To the wage loss of all these workers Is to be added the productive value of their labor had they been employed, for every man at work produces something of value to society that is lost irrevocably when he is idle. Naturally each man's productive value dependable as the next's. Perhaps the most illuminating con

ception of the value of time when use-

and for the current year it may hefully empioyed in conveyed in the old

one to challenge Dublic attention. At

any rate, the prospect warrants consideration of the cost of the strike Pthat began April 1.

Exact compilations or striKe costs are impossible. The Bureau of Labor Statistics long since abandoned efforts in that line, for even this Government agency could never secure

complete reports on

items as loss in wages and loss in products, and at the same time there are so many items entering into the

the cost of a strike that are indefinite

copybook aphorism, "Lost, yesterday,

somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes; no reward is offered, for they are gone forever." A Loss Everybody Shares But every member of society, be he

i business man, professional man, farmt er, workman or parasistic idler, must

eiirVi nnrrpt . ....... '

.;;( snare in tms loss occasioned when a

day s wage is not earned and hence

cannot be spent and the product of a day's labor has not been realized

land is gone forever. Everybody has

ening effect, more or less serious, must be felt in every section of the country when so essential an industry as coal suspends oDerations or is

only partially productive and hundreds

of thousands of wage earners go on an indefinite vacation. This deadening effect, moreover, according to economists, began with the first serious threat of the coal strike. They point out that with the opening of the present year there was a' very general determination to pull the country out of the slough of business

depression and bring about that "re

turn to normalcy" of which so much; has been heard and so little realized for many months. Men in all lines of endeavor were planning to get under full swing again,, and perhaps to ex

tend or expand their operations. New enterprises were projected, bankers were more optimistic, credits were becoming easier, capital was seeking work to do instead of a hole in which

to hide. The road to prosperity seemed open again. j Then came the controversy between the coal miners and operators, with a practical certainty of a strike on the first of April. "Better wait and see what happens" instead of "Up and at 'em!" became the watchword in the business and commercial world, and there again is found a very indefinite but none the less real item of loss

that is to be added to the cost of the coal strike. Lost profits to coal operators, lost freight revenues to railroads (an enormous sum in the aggregate); lost profits to all middle-men and dealers who handle coal, and lost profits to all industries and business affected adversely by a real or threatened coal famine, are other items in the total

bill which the country must pay because the men who own the coal and the men who dig it would not set their house in order before March 31. It will be a long time before anyone s;ill hazard an estimate as to what this total cost is in cold, hard cash, but one thing has been made certain already It will be enough! Optimists among Members of Congress and other leaders in public affairs agree, however, that whatever the bill is it will not be too much if it arouse3 the public until measures are taken to avoid similar debacles in the future.

William Pegg Funeral Friday at 2 O'Clock FOUNTAIN CITY, Ind.. April 20. Funeral services for William Pegg, 69 years old, who died here Wednesday, will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Friends church. Burial will be in. Willow Grove cemetery. Rev. C. O. Reynolds will officiate. Friends may call at any time.

Flour has been made successfully from beans and a Brazilian establishment is now manufacturing these vegetable flours. - .

RURAL CARRIERS TO GATHER CROP DATA

(By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, April 20. Utilization of the services of rural letter carriers for gathering crop data and Other agricultural statistics was authorized today by Postmaster General Work. "The postoffice department realizes," " the postmaster general said,

"that the services the rural carriers

could render would be of tremendous value to agricultural interests of the country, and we . would be. heartily glad to have them co-operate ith the department of agriculture by serving as crop reporters. It is understood that the filling out of the report

blanks requires but a few-moments each month, so that work of great Importance and interest could be perj formed with the expenditure of but little time . and rwitHouti interference with postal" duties of thearrier9.:

KUPPENHEIMER SUITS FOR SPRING

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and susceptible only of estimate or geen a tQwn or gmajj c,ty Iargely de.

approximation.

Giving the Public a Jolt. However, in the case of a basic industry such as coal the statisticians have more informing data with which to give the public a jolt. First of all, they point out that a total cessation of coal production and exhaustion of coal supplies on hand would result in

the complete Industrial and commer-j cial paralysis of the nation: famine and death would speedily stalk the i

land and chaos ensue. Government itself would break down and civilization totter and fall. That is the possible ultimate cost of a coal strike, and is beyond reckoning in money. Nothing like that would ever be permitted to happen, of course, but the picture is one to be borne in mind. Getting down to dollars and cents, the first item is the wage loss of the mine workers. If there are 600,000 miners idle as a result of the strike their loss each day totals at least $4,200,000 on the basis of their average earnings per day worked in 1920. Next comes the loss in wage to work-

penaent upon one Business or manufacturing establishment "go dead" when that establishment suspends operations for a period, and a like dead-

RUN DOWN BY AUTOIST SOUTH BEND, Ind., April 20. Joseph Mendel, 16 years oia, is near death in a local hospital as a result of being run down by a motorist. His skull is fractured.

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