The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-07
.Merry.GO- Round

WARRINGTON .- hlans Important proposal gel lengalerm settlement of Che coal eFlsa han come iF0
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 oos uFeas an lmportlAl body Almllar lo shs ron. neasna Valley Authority o regulate the coal lns % % scnns TSs .sv eas ss ss.ss ss sns tSs @ s hO s X aottng 70 today, he pfppOses that it V nov une Q make sure that Ai sides get square deA ana thAt Che way o u0 lt bs regulation Of the coal huuaty' paSe eS oOss gSS OpoSS ssS appears @ V o Ss n s psn heyvAhlA anthracite regions kof hetahee, mine operators have dug under towns to such eklant that eAyaAlnn have swallowed streets and h0uSvs Another nFoblem n Che removal Of wooden mine props and coal mine pillars The removal of wooden nroDs causes oAve.lns after Q mine b abandgnedl ihs retention Of coal pillars leaves valuable coal is as.grCsna s nsyss 70 Sssa s % aSess. %n yse lno. sbe, ever to bring to the surface the coal eie thsfs ln.
 Another problem p conflicting seams, Near Mor. santoyn ya icr nssanss, shrse dn ssa su a.as ,s the surface the sewlckley seam, sbo feet below and the Pittsburgh seam, another 90 feet below that h the Pittsburgh seam h mined ahead Of the gewlck. icy aeam the latter b likely to work too Tor down and cave into the shafts Of the Pittsburgh seam And all these seams are mined by different conflicting owners,
 while the mine operators have fought against Government regulation Of the coal mines John b Lewis also has been Just as vehement against it- except n certain cases where he benefited, He hes favored Federal mine inspection, and in the early days of the New Deal he fathefed the ouffUy Coal Act which permitted coal operators t0 cOnSpire t0 nk prices with the blessing Of the Government
 However, when Frank Hayes was president of the United Mine Workers back in the Wilson Ads mlnlstration he urged Government regulation sim. liar to that now proposed by exsuoverror Cox When Lewis succeeded Hayes, though one of the first things he did was to come out against Government regila- ton.
 If Lewis had stuck by previous uNfw policy for Government regulation, the whos history of mine ferent
 Several weeks ago this eolamnlst reported that the united States had given the basic portions Of the atomic bomb to England. The story was immediately and vigorously denied.
 However, as so often happens with diplomatic and this week in New York Senator Tom Connaily made e speech in which he dropped Q most sig. nlflcant disclosure. For some strange reason what he said was buried on the inside pages of the New York Times while other papers, as far as can be ascertalned, ignored it.
 What Senator Connaliy said was that canada and Great Britain nov possessed the atomic bomb
 It b now possible to report additional details regarding the mysterious reported shipments of basic atomic bomb parts to Northern England
 what was sent to England were the fashionable materials in other words the explosive parts of the bomb which, when set off, cause so much damage The British, however were not given the bomb mechanlsm-the detonator device that sets the bomb off This may have been omitted because of danger in shipping the bombs. CThey were carried from the United States to England by air) Or the mech-