THE SCHEELITE INDUSTRY
'AND THE ALLEGED INJUSTICE. Sir -Re "Scheelite Producers' Complaints of Injustice" in fixator* issue of your paper it won d be much clearer to me, and .probably others if we knew tho price obtained tor scheelite for, say, each of the five years immediately preceding the war. This point, which is of real interffiA, is not touched upon in the article mentioned. Also, the name and a very brief history of the company-which;cn« point to an expenditure pE_£IOO.OOO in Sluit, materials, and labour. Is tins the only one that has paid a steady profit or one that has Been losing money all the time? , Your informants supplied two columns of matter, but leave, one in doubt on several points One is thai t they aro so patriotic (?) as ; to witn hold supplied of scheelite whilst they haggle about the price, which may or may not be quite a fair ono and appears to be open to' argument), what Le they doing towards winning th war? Is their paltry profit to be minted against the loss of one man Before I say too 'much I had bettor stop.—l am, etc., p^ January 8, 191 S.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 91, 10 January 1918, Page 7
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197THE SCHEELITE INDUSTRY Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 91, 10 January 1918, Page 7
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