Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-06-08 | Page 3 | Coal Industry Will be First Reorganized

COAL GOAL INDUSTRY WILL BE FIRST REORGANIZED Chicagoan Expected to Be Chosen as Federal Administrator Administrator Ad Ad- By DUANE WILSON Copyright 1933 by the United Press WASHINGTON June 8 Th 8 Thc coal Industry will be bethe the first to be reorganized under provisions of the revolutionary revolutionary revolutionary revo revo- Roosevelt industrial control control control con con- bill the United Press learned on reliable authority today Several other major industries held conferences and were drawing up codes governing production prices and wages These codes were submitted submitted submitted sub sub- In in tentative form to authorities authorities ties who will administer the act but the coal industry long In a chaotic condition was the first to perfect its organization D D. D W W. Buchanan Chicago operator who controls extensive coal mines Inthe in inthe th the Clearfield Pa field probably will be selected as administrator of the coal industry The decision to begin rehabilitation tion of the fuel Industry prior to similar sim sins ilar liar efforts on behalf of ot other basic Industries was made at a recent conference conference con con- ference at the home bome of Bernard Baru Baruch h New York financier influential laths laths- Democrat and associate of General Hugh Johnson who is expected ex cx to be appointed general administrator ad of the industrial control act In addition to Baru Baruch h and Johnson John son those at the conference Included John L. L Lewis president of the tte United Unit ed Mine Workers of America Gerard Swope head bead of the General Electric company and several other industrial magnates It was decided to divide the industrial industrial industrial indus indus- trial control administration Into four major divisions Labor legal accounting accounting ac ac- ac counting and industry Each of these will be divided into subsections under un sin- I der der- the control of an administrator Separate subdivisions of the Industry section will be set up for the various basic industries requiring aid It was reported the New York conferee con con- fences feree agreed to the appointment of Buchanan as administrator of the coal industry division His name was wass was's said ld to have been sponsored by Lewis who was wa active in President Roose Boose velt's campaign last year A meeting of 57 coal operators was held here early this week at which Johnson sold the industrial control control control con con- idea to mine owners from all sections sec see of the theco co country A committee of ot 19 operators selected se se- elect e- e lect d from rom the varIo various various' s' s coal ing areas was named at the meeting here It will meet in Chicago on June 15 to choose 25 mine owners who will sit as an operators operator's board to aid Buchanan A group of 25 coal miners to sit as a labor board will willbe willbe be selected shortly Union labor Jabor officials of of- o- o will name the miners on the board it was said