Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-07-27
Sixty Operators Named to Garry
Out Orders of Interstate
Commerce Commission.
HOOvER'S PLAN ANNOUNCED
presidential Committee Is Com
posed of Hoover, Daueherty, Fal!
and McCord-Body to Have
Charge of Coal Distribution.

/ the coal and railroad strike emergency,
as announced by Secretary of Com
merce Hoover The plan is predicated
upon an opinion of Attorney General
II. H. Daugherty authorizing wide lie.
gal powers for the government.
1. Appointment of presidential
committee" made up of Secretary
Hoover, Attorney General Daugherty,
| Secretary Fall of the Interior depart
ment and Chairman ~McCord of the in
! terstate commerce committee. This
committee will have general charge of
all plans for distribution and regula.
| ton.
/ 2. Representatives of coal and rail
operatives to have delegations on the
presidential committee.
3. Agents of Presidents committee
in every coal field.
4. A committee of coal operators, or
owners, in each district.
5. Cooperation in every way in car
rying out orders for preferential
movement of treights.
To Check Car Movements.
6. Careful check on movements of
freight cars. aa
Z. Operators to be allowed wide lati-
tude at mines.
8. Cars to be allotted to only those
mine owners who agree to fair price
arrangements.
o. All operators agree to tentative
maximum price fixed by Commerce de-
partment on June 1 ($3.50 per ton at
mine).
The six members of the operators
comm ittee, named by districts Ga
drafting committee" 1t was called
were: S. e. Yerkes, Birmingham; e.
Il. White, Glenwhite, w. Va; Il. S.
Magyar, Knoxville; Charles O'Neill,
Altoona; S. Pemberton Hutchinson,
Philadelphia, and G. Il. Bockum, New
York.
The drafting committee was part
of the general executive committee of
the operators, appointed to cooperate
with the government and the railways.
Other members and districts appoint
ed were:
lizard district, Il. L. Douglas, Gin.
cinnati; Harlan county district, r.
Quay, Louisville: Kanawha district,
C. V. Dickinson; Huntington: Logan
district A. ]. Kong, northeastern Ken
lucky district, G. w. Common, Ashland,
KY; northern West Virginia, Il. Dren-
! nan; Williamson district, II. ID. Pat
terson, Dayton, o.; Virginia Operators
association, Webb .Willetts Norton,
Va. Elk River district, A. G. Bradley;
western Kentucky, G. #. Richardson,
Paducah; Somerset county, Pennsy)-
vania, p. Kendall, Washington upper
Potomac, T.. A. Emmons, A. w. Stew
art, John S. Brophy; Fayette county,
Pennsylvania, George Whyet.
Daugherty o. KS Plan.
The legal 20. K" was put upon the
Administrations plan to combat the
twin strikes by Attorney General
Daugherty. After studying the plan
evolved by Secretary of Commerce
Hoover the attorney general said 1t
was within the law for the govern
ment to exercise such functions with
new legislation.
81 shall join with Secretary Hoover
and every other governmental agency
under the direction of the President
to relieve the situation to the end that
coal and other necessities of life may
be furnished to the American people
in sufficient quantities and at reason
able prices" the attorney general said.
To Invoke Transportation Act.
The first step will be to invoke that
section Of the transportation act CIV
ing the Interstate commerce commits
sion complete control over the dstri-
| button and use of all railway motive
power, cars, terminals and other IA
cilities necessary TO the movement OF
traffic. 1t is stated 1t will take but
few days to set up the machinery for
this purpose.
Hundreds of kilograms were sent
out Sunday and replies received by
the interstate commerce commission
taking a census of the available rail
way equipment Of the country and its
present location. With this data ex.
perts Of the commission will be en-.
abled TO ascertain where there is
surplus OF seryiceable equipment that
can be transferred to sections where
equipment Is lacking to move traffic.
The individual railroads have been
loath TO LET their equipment get Off
their own lines, because II takes three
to four months TO get II back under
normal procedure. With the commits.
sion taking jurisdiction, however.
equipment will be kept on the move rs
rapidly as possible and as cars are sent
into foreign territory others will be
returned in their place. The inter.
state commerce commi.siD viii set ar
II regional offices through which car
I and engine equipment will clear.
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