Show I SHORTAGE GE OF GOAL COAL AGAIN IN IMMINENT Ell LACK OF CARS AND LABOR LADOR TROUBLES TROUBLES TROU TROU- BLES ARE HINDERING PRODUCTION Nationalizing of Mines Favored by Operators Operators Operators' Op p. p Head Who Denies Combination Com Corn Exists Among Operators Operators Oper Oper- to Fix Prices Washington Entering Entering on an un Investigation s. In of the Increased price of coal a n senate Interstate commerce e sub corn on August 20 26 brought forth t testimony testimony tes tes- s. s that a u shortage of of cars cars' and labor difficulties were hindering coal production that certain elements In Inthe Inthe Inthe the miners miners' union were intent on nationalization na of the coal cOlli mines with adoption of a six hour day duy und and a II five five- day week plus a wage Increase se and that unless problems problems' of of production were solved the country would be he brought face to face fuce with a coal cOllI famine fam fum- ine me In the coming winter So emph emphatic tlc were es that the railroads were at the time bottom of th thi present low production that Senator Sea Sen en- en ator chairman of ot the committee Indicated the time committees committee's intention of ot bringing Director General of RaIlroads Hines HIns into the time hearing After detailing the effects of labor difficulties and alleged car shortage on coal production Harr Harry N N. Taylor Talor president of the National Coal association association asso asso- elation an organization of operators declared a bill had hud been prepared for submission to congress providing for forthe forthe forthe the nationalization of the mines lie added that what the miners wanted was not only that the government should own the properties but that the mines should be turned over o to them for operation Denying that a combination among bituminous coal operators to fix prices exists J. J D. D A. A Morrow vice president of the National Coal association told tolda a senate coal investigating committee that such a combination would be impossIble impossible im im- possible I it if attempted Prices at ut the tile mines he said sald have declined under the the V competition which prevails premUs and amid andare andare are lower than they were a a. fi year eur ago There were separate commercial commer cial producers operating approximately approximate ly mines from which bituminous coal is regularly shipped Mr Morrow l said In addition there are some two thousand operators with about a OO mines who begin producing and 1 selling coal whenever the price goes goe V up a little and offers n a profit to them Moreover there are hundreds of thousands thousands thou thou- sands of acres of coal lands lands' along ulong railroads on which new can un unreadily readily and quickly opened by any anyone anyone uny one so disposed Such a condition obviously obviously obviously ob ob- ob- ob does not lend itself to restrictive tive combinations among producers |