The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-07-27
COAL O|CTATORS
ARE APPOINTED
,Hoover'S Plan for Distribution of
Fuel Announced.
COMMITTEES TO RUN MINES
presidential Committee" Composed OF
Hoover, Daugherty, Fall and Nc
Cord, to Have General Charge
Sixty Operators Also Named.

Washington, July 25.-Here is what
President Harding proposes to do In
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. II. Daugherty authorizing wide le-
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 freights.
To Check Car Movements.
G. Careful check on movements of
freight cars.
T. Operators to be allowed wide lati-
tude at mines
s. Cars to be allotted to only those
mine owners who agree 20 fair price
arrangements.
9. All operators agree to tentative
maximum price fixed by Commerce de
partment on June $3.50 per ton at
mine)
The six members of the operators
committee, named by districts Ga
drafting committee" it was called
were S. f. Yerkes, Birmingham; +.
L. White, Glenwhite, W. Va; f. S,
Magyar, Knoxville; Charles O'Neill,
Altoona; S Pemberton Hutchinson,
Philadelphia, and c. E. Bockum New
York.
The drafting committee was a part
of the general executive committee Of
the operators, appointed to cooperate
with the government and the railways.
Other members aud districts appoint
ed were:
Hazard district, f. L. Douglas, Gin
cinnati Harlan county district, r.
Quay, Louisville; Kanawha district,
c. V. Dickinson; Huntingdon Logan
district, A. j. Kong, northeastern Ken
lucky district, c. w. Conner, Ashland,
Ky. northern West Virginia, L. Dren-
nan; Williamson district, Il. d. Pat
terson, Dayton O.; Virginia Operators
association Webb Willetts, Norton,
Va; Elk River district, A. G. Bradley;
western Kentucky, C, f. Richardson,
Paducah; Somerset county, Pennsyl-
wanna, 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 80. X" was put upon the
administration plan to combat the
twin strikes by Attorney General
Daugherty After studying the plan
evolved by Secretary of Commerce
Hoover the attorney general said it
was within the law for the govern
ment to exercise such functions with
out further recourse to congress for
new legislation.
Il 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 distri-
button and use of all railway motive
power, cars, terminals and other IA
cilities necessary to the movement of
traffic 1t is stated II will take but Il
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 win be en-
abled to ascertain where there is a
surplus of servceable 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 1t back under
normal procedure. With the commits.
sion taking jurisdiction, however
equipment will be kept on the move as
rapidly as possible and as ears are sent
into foreign territory others will be
returned in their place The inter
state commerce commission will set up
II regional offices through which car
and engine equipment will clear
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