COST OF COAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1463, 11 June 1912, Page 6

COST OF COAL.

WHO GETS THE I.ION'S SHARE? HOME FACTS AND HGUltliS. I.n reply 10. t!io oorn.p.lninfc which lias, been made publicly of iiitfl that -flip We?!' :)><>!(■"Crtirl Company lius taken ad-v.aulago [-.of the iveent iUcreaSM i:ii wages paid i.O | miners, -to cliargo d'isprnportiou.!.i.te.'ly high [ •fiiCW'it.sml prices Co c.oii.siii.iiers, Sir. Geor-irs . ■I -.l.o'achiiii.,- iiia.is.iiging director iif (lib. VVosf-. .'part < !<>iVl <j'o.!ii)iii.n:.v, lias addressed tli.o fol--1 lowing letter lo the chairman of (ho (,'pst j. Of iii vii'lii! (.Vlr. tk T.regearj • ''I'i. fins iff-en st.a.ied .recently i.» t'ho pubhc paiier- Dnil i'lif) ro.'ii)i;u)j luus' 111ereti's'fa ilm price iff CJiitl fiii i.n, ejects of . ailvnill. ityigiKi under ilio flow agr'cij-' : inonf. .1 Imvo t'Jio honour to -Submit ilio fidiow-jng isfu-.s for tl.io iii.fo.ruuitioii- .of the convinissioii "Firs!.- A? io tlio recent inc'reiiso' in pi-ice,-, it Unify applies far # ptSCUJ .cliisseai oiciAil, nnil docs not amount. to I'd. per 'on ' oil the whole of the company's outpni. "iSooonil.^i'tiowages hiivo been .itdiidily j increasing fp'f the J list ten years,. ;uul lh<> company has mado no advance before this I J a- - 1 ot'e for m any years.' ] ''TliiriK—'P.b'o iiicrtii.s.p in wages tlurjri.g i. tho lii'si)' t'oii years amounts to is.' id,, per 1 toil., of ilie- wliplo output,, 'ifiid -tite, Cp;:ip'r/n.y j jijjs :)iail. fit iirect -this Urge- Ij.y ■ improved. plant and facilities.for v.vrkiii;.-;, iuif: tjy i'KcWiise i'ii prico In thp rw.'umcr. ! This :|iicrp!i,so s>t iv-ages does ink i'iicliiiie Vcf cent'iidyiinebs;. "Fourili.- Take the cost ef coal. !:i»n the mines' into trucks at t;h<r loot of th« i.n- ---' ciiiio for t-he past, year.,, fcho ltiivns ar'p as follow: i— . . s. <1. ■ .1,0.b.0'u.r 5' 7..!0 Tiiii.bM'-and stores 0 8.59 Accident and fire insurance 0 2.00 . Koyalty fl. jj-QO. Rates and taxes ;.... 0 3.52. . .ltepairs.'niid-! renewals of plant ana machinery, management, wast-. ago of pro[K'rty, surveys, etc.... 1 1..08 8 *.49 ! "Fifiii.—The whole of this output rf-a!- ■ iscd tli" .ivirafie price of 9s. :4>3oii. per ton in trucks at. tlie foot of fli.e ineline. Com.-' ■ plaints .are- ivecinen.tly made of the ihiclv pr:t» of coal to. t.ho consimier, but Hh> .aliove price i? all the company Rets tlm i-cs't is made up of railway haulage' 'to' i Wc~!p.'irt, harb.mr and sli.ipping: charges, freights, cartas, labour, etc,, over >vhicn. tlm i-oiiip.iny lias no control. , < Sixth—ln labouv gov. tlio following . Hi are of. flie toial cosf to consumer, which . ; I -fiave calCulatcxl fiinn :actiiUl. ret-iirnsy '.ali: : except tlic. share of railway ha.iilage, but • I am coiiiident that what ;I hayo allowcil •is woll within the mark.' Tlii.s is what: laboit'r gets out. of every ton, of' coal, bciora'. it. is deiivMcil' to the coivsuiiisi ■ ■B; labour a.t.riiine- ~i.....•■•• 5 (V3O. . Share of: /h.a.uia'go..9 3;00 ■ Share, of freight 2 0.00 Labour in retail yards 2 B.UO Siiaro of cartage and sundries ... 0 i.OO , 10 8.30 •fiy» jß&trs ago laboiir got 0 0- ■ Incrcp:-o ■ 1 MP •"Hie increase in five years has been, therefore, verv nearly 20 l>cr cctlt., and if . docs not inciudo veccnt advan-c.-' inaUo under tiio new agreemc lit?." '■ | i; . , •/ :