The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-10-20
He Will Take Active
Charge of The Com
mittee's Work
COAL is Down TO Sc
Department of Justice
Says There Is No Dan
ger of Suits

Late this afternoon George Brac-
kett, OF Fairmont, formerly of
Grafton, was named as commission.
er OF the Fair Practices Committee
Of Northern West Virginia. Mr..
Bracket was selected py special
committee and will have his head
quarters at the rooms ofthe North.
ern West Virginia Coal Operators
Association in the Jacobs Building,
Fairmont He will receive a.1d
handle all complaints on Northern
West Virginia coal shipments. Mr..
Bracket is authorized 10 provide
an organization to carry on the
work.
At the conference of the Fair
Practices committee at Wheeling
yesterday a committee was select
ed which is composed OF B. Lisle
White, Clarksburg, c. D. Robin
son, Fairmont, and c. H. Jenkins,
Fairmont, and they will select the
commissioner for the northern
part of the state.
Members of the Fair Practices
committee reported having had a
very favorable conference with
District Attorney Stuart w. Wal
kcr,, Of the northern district Of the
federal court of West Virginia, at
Wheeling yesterday District At
torney Walker is Satisfied that the
committee is functioning and that
through its efforts the price of coal
is gradually being reduced Excel
lent progress in the work of the
Fair Practices committee has been
noted within the past week or ten
days and all operators are realiz-
ing the Importance of cooperating
with the officials Of the United
States Department Of Justice and
the committee. One of the mem
bers of the committee said today:
"A permanent organization will
be at work soon and the situation
will be handled promptly and to
that end the special committee Sc
lected to appoint a commissioner
to take charge of the work will get
busy" The movement started in
Northern West Virginia is spread
ing and similar organizations will
be started in Pittsburgh Cleveland
and Columbus, with the possibility
OF a Capitalization out Of Cleye-
land for the Ohio section.
One point that was emphasized
today was that the Fair Practices
committee Is no sales agency and
has nothing to do with setting
prices or price regulations in any
manner. Consumers that procure
coal at what they think is too high
a price will report the same to the
committee, which will investigate
the matter. At the same time
firms that cannot procure fuel af-
ter they have made an honest eff
fort Will report the same to the
committee. Then the committee
will endeavor to have the same
firms that had formerly supplied 1t
take the order. If this cannot be
done, IN effort will be made to
have other operators take over the
tonnage. 1t has been noted recently
that many inquiries have been re-
ceived by the committee for prices,
which prompts the foregoing ex-
PLANTATION.
At the conference in Wheeling
yesterday members attending 1t
were: G. H. Jenkins. Fairmont;-
George Brackett, Grafton; G. T.
Bell, Fairmont; B. Lisle White,
Clarksburg; John D. Hatfield, Nor
gantown; Douglass German, Balu-
more, and Attorney Gibbs L. Ba-
ker, Washington, D. G. Other fields
weer also represented, including
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