Anthracite: An Instance of Natural Resource MonopolyJohn C. Winston Company, 1915 - 251 páginas |
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amount annual earnings anthra anthracite carriers Anthracite Coal Combination anthracite fields anthracite industry anthracite miners anthracite prices anthracite region anthracite wages anthracite workers average yearly earnings bituminous bituminous coal capital cent cite coal companies coal land combination of 1898 competition contract miners cost of living cost of production culm dump dividends domestic sizes duction economic employees expenses figures fixed charges Ford Motor Company freight rate income increase in wages interests Interstate Commerce Commission investment J. P. Morgan Jersey Central labor cost Lackawanna Lehigh Valley Lehigh Valley Railroad monopolist monopoly power monopoly price monopoly profits natural resource monopoly number of days operators owners paid Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Railroad prepared sizes price of coal Prices of Anthracite Professor Jones profits purchase railroad Reading Company retailer secure selling social stove coal Suffern sumer surplus tion traffic will bear United wholesale price Wilkes-Barre
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Página 83 - ... insufficient to compensate the mine workers in view of the dangerous character of the occupation in relation to accidents, the liability to serious and permanent disease, the high death rate and the short trade life incident to this employment." The Commission found and reported that anthracite coal mining "should be classed as one of the dangerous industries of the country, ranking with several of the most dangerous.
Página 89 - A depreciation charge is one that is made against the wearing out of capital. A paper manufacturer buys a machine for which he pays $1,000. Experience tells him that this machine will wear out in ten years. Therefore the manufacturer sets aside each year a sum which at the end of ten years...
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Página 83 - The statistics so far available (which appear in this report under " Hazardous nature of anthracite mining " a) do not show a greater hazard than obtains in some other occupations, notably in the fisheries and in those of switchmen and freight-train crews on our railroads. Still, the requirements are exacting, and this fact has been duly weighed by the Commission, in coming to a decision upon the demand for an increase in the rate of compensation of contract miners. Reviewing the whole case, and...
Página 108 - ... as can be ascertained, does not compare unfavorably with that in other industries requiring substantially equal skill and training. It is more instructive, of course, to compare annual earnings of the contract miner with the annual earnings of those employed in other occupations. We find that these annual earnings of contract miners, based upon returns for the year 1901, range between $550 and $600. Perhaps it would be safe to put the average at $560.