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Show I KENYON SETS if UP CODE FOR I COAL INDUSTRY - J Senate Gets Report of Com- l mittee Which Investigated West Virginia 'War' IF TRIBUNAL PROPOSED I Lawmaker Declares His, 1 Plan Will Maintain Peace i in Fuel Fields WASHINGTON' .I.in. -1 A gOV-(,rnment gOV-(,rnment tribunal for regulation pf t" I coal industry under o Btatutory cod of Industrial law enforced only power of public opinion was recommended recom-mended In B report iresent ed to the senate today by Chairman k Kenyon of the labor committee, which recent-ly recent-ly Investigated disorders- in the Wcs! Virginia-Kentucky coal fields. The report held that both coal operators op-erators and miners were reaponBibl for the recent fatal conflicts, anil property destruction in West Virginia and said mutual concessions by the coal operators and United Mine Workers Work-ers would have to be madv to end the conflict. A "'The Issue Is perfectly plain." said 'J" Senator Kenyon'H report. "The op erators In this particular section Of West Virginia openly announced that they will not employ men belonging to the unions. On the other hand, the United Mine Workers are dotei -mined to unionize those fields which are practically the only large and important im-portant coal fields In the 1'nited States not unionized." PERSONAL SUGGESTION. Th proposal for a federal coal tribunal and code of laws applying both to operators and miners was hjs personal suggestion. Senator Kenyon said. The proposed government coal hoard would be organized under s n-ator n-ator Kenyon's suggestloh like the railway rail-way labor board, with three representatives repre-sentatives each of th nip! overs, the employes and the public, appoint- id by the president. The Industrial code would be enacted by congress and its principles. Interpreted by the board. SENATOR'S PLAN. Senator Kenyon announced thai later he would Introduce a bill oover-lng oover-lng his plan for the coal board and "codcj' which follows: "1. Coal is a public utility and in its production and distribution the nubile interest is predominant "2. Human Standards should be the constraining influence in fixing the wages and working conditions of mine s orkors. "3. Capital prudently and honestly invested In the coal industry should have an adequate return sufficient to stimulate and accelerate the production produc-tion of this essential commodity. "4 The right of operators and miners to organize is recognized and affirmed. This right shall not be denied, de-nied, abridged ei interfered with in any manner whatsoever, nor shall C -erelvc measures of any kind bo used by employers or employes to exercise or to refrain from exercising this right. COLLECTIVE B ltt; 1INING. "5. The right of operators and of miners to bar. aln i oil tively through 'epresentatives of their own choosing is recognized and affirmed. "C. The miners who are not members mem-bers of a union have the right to worl. Without being hnrrassed by fellow workmen who may belong to uniops. The men belonging to a union have the right to work without being hair-rassed hair-rassed b operators who do not believe be-lieve In unionism. The organizations have a right to go Into nonunion fields and by peaceable methods try to pr-1 suade men to Join the unions, but they j have no right to try to Induce em-I ployes to violate contracts which they have entered into with their employers and the operators on the other hand have the right of peaceable means to try and persuade men to refrain from joining the unions. .M I S 1 U OF W GI.S 7. The rlh' of all unskilled or common laborers to earn an adequate living wage sufficient to maintain tho worker and his family in health and reasonable comfort, and to afford an opportunity for savings against unemployment, un-employment, old age, and other contingencies con-tingencies is hereby declared and affirmed. af-firmed. Above this basic wage for unskilled workers, differentials In tales of pay for other mine workers hall be established for skill, experience, ex-perience, hazards of employment ami productive efficiency. '8. The right of women to engage In industrial occupations is ret ogniz-ed ogniz-ed and affirmed: their rates of pay shall be the same as those of male workers for tho same or equivalent Jk service performed, they shall be ac- corded all the rights and guarantees granted to male workers and the conditions con-ditions of their employment shall surround sur-round them with every safeguard of their health and strength and guarantee guar-antee them the full measure of protection pro-tection which is tho debt of society to mothers and to potential mothers. Few women are ongaged In any way in mining but It may be as well to announce this proposition as to p-sss by it. WO CHILD LABOR "9. Children under the age of 1C shall not he employed in th-- Industry unless permits have been issued Under state authorlty "10. Six days shall be the standard stand-ard work week in the Industry with one day's rest In seven. The standard work day shall not exceed eight hours a day. '1 Punitive overtime Hhall be paid for hours worked each day In excess of the standard work day. "12. When a dispute or controversy (Continued on Page Two.) KENYON SETS UP CODE FOR COAL INDUSTRY (Continued from Pngc One) arises between operators and mine workers, there should be no s'rll-e or lockout pending a conference or a hearing and determination of the f.cts and principles Involved." Senator Kenyon said his plan offered of-fered a solution for the oal Industry's Indus-try's problems, "which bid fair to confront US more acutely before another an-other season shall pass." KANSAS on PA S, The Kansas Industrial court Idea Involving a compulsory arbitration, hel said, had proved futile. The Kansas' court, ho added, ' cannot bp a success' because It has no underlying codo of rules or principles ' Senator Kenyon s report did not detail de-tail nor analyze at length the testimony testi-mony tnken by the committee In Its Investigation of tho .Mingo disturbances. disturb-ances. "The whole stor of tho contest however." said Mr. Kenyon. Is one of disregard for nnd breaking of laws of denials of constitutional rights; of a spirit of suspicion hate nnd retaliation re-taliation on both sides that does not augur well for industrial peace In that portion of the state." |