Bisbee daily review., 1922-08-25
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i call up tomorrow It proposes a com
 mission of five members to investigate .the whole coal industry and make rec concentrations to congress.
 Secretary Hoover predicted a sharu
 increase in bituminous production
 next week, placing the probable out.
 put at 100000 as compared with
 4,OO0,O00 tons last wek He indicated, | however that serious transportation | difficulties would be encountered in
 the movement of coal with the crisis reached within month, unless there
 should be settlement meantime of ! the railroad strike
 ! MT. Hoover regarded the anthracite | situation as acute. He advised anthra- | cite users to be prepared to burn sub. provision probably would be made for | the priority movement of such substi-
 tutes to householders over industries.
 Senate discussion, the first extended [ debate on either the coal or rail strikes, brought expressions from prac- tically air senators participating that in their Judgement there was bound to be actual hardships and suffering from the lack of coal this winter, even should the strike be settled tomorrow. Senator Calder, Republican, New York, opening the discussion, declared that New York City faced a "desper- ate" situation. He urged that oper- ators and miners be given AS hours in which to adjust their differences and that if they failed "it will be the duty of this congress to give the president full and complete authority to take over the mines and, to operate them for the benefit of the American peo- pie
 Senator Lenroot, Republican, Wis consin declared that the situation with respect to both the coal and rail con troversies was "so bad'' that the pub lies interest now justified more than mediation"
 "The president ought to be author ized to take over both the railroads and the mines, and in his discretion to operate them" he said.
 Complaining about what he charact- erized as the inaction of both the pres ident and congress, Senator Walsh, Democrat, Massachusetts, declared that much of the unrest in the country was due ito the factSthat here we dil- ly daily, here we object; here we fil- ibuster; here we never take action"
 Senator Cummins declared that the executive had done everything in his power to bring abouta settlement and to relieve the people. He added that responsibility for the failure to end the strikes, rested neither with the president or congress, but that blame attached to both parties to the contro versies.
 Both Senators Cummins and oBrah asserted that the president had no power to compel an agreement Mir Borah held also that congress had no power under the constitution to enact legislation compelling a settlement
 Senator Nelson, Republican. Minn- esota, expressed the opinion that the whole trouble" was "unionism."
 Senator Cummins declared it ought to be crime for employees to strike when the government undertook to ad- ! judge for them the justice of a dispute. | He added that in his opinion, this was a final remedy for such conditions as those now existing. 3t al
 "I don't think" he declared, "that our civilization can long endure if body of artisans, embracing all in one | industry, can leave their employment ! by concert and conspiracy at the same time. I would be the last man 10 o take away the right tc quit to leave { work except when the government to give those employees the justice they hoped to receive"