"Many of the coal companies maintain camp saloons and collect from the keepers of such saloons a per capita sum of 25 to 40 cents per month for each person whose name appears upon the company pay roll, as a charge against the saloonkeeper for the privilege of enjoying the exclusive saloon business of the camp. Saloons in the mining camps produce a deplorable situation among the miners, habituating them to the improper use of strong drink, and thereby impairing their efficiency by lessening the production and increasing the hazard in operating the mine. One mine operator testified as follows:

‘The saloon is the curse of the camps, the sinkhole for miners’ earnings. Nine men, in the month of July, with an average of $50 each for a two weeks’ pay roll, after deductions had been made, had not a cent left on the morning following pay day. Their money went to the saloon for liquor and gambling. These men were unfitted for work for three days.’ "

Results of Grand Jury Testimony