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Show MIR VOICES COAL PROPOSAL Public Pays Costs of Strike and Has Right to Speak, He Says. ,' NEW YORK. Sept. 13. Continuity of coal produetlon "under righteous eonditlons of employment" must be obtained If the welfare of tho nation Is to be maintained at all. Secretary Hoover declared Tuesday in an address ad-dress before the Salesmen's asaoela-tlon asaoela-tlon of the American Chemical Industry. In-dustry. Mr. Hoover contended that the solution so-lution of the problem lay In the creation of a national coal commission commis-sion empowered to get at the bot-Itom bot-Itom of the troubles In tho coal ln-Idustry ln-Idustry While there was much "that needs publle ventilation." he added, tho two most Important questions were the relationship of employer and employe and the economic reorganization re-organization of the Industry. SYSTEMS BREAK DOWlf. "I believe." Mr Hoover said, "such a commission would find that collective col-lective bargaining, conciliation and arbitration upon their present basis lof organization have In sequence broken ilmvn in tills industry us wlt-I wlt-I neas the long stoppage In produetlon j which all these processes are supposed sup-posed to end. , ' In this connection. If we examine exam-ine the Inside workings of this re-icent re-icent strike we will find situation new I in industrial relations. I'nder freedom free-dom from the restraint of trade laws tho workers' organisations have grown In strength, solidarity and de. votlon; they have shown able leadership, lead-ership, whereas the organization of employes for the purpose of collective collec-tive bargaining has boon to a largS degree destroyed b the action of th ie very laws Without entering into the history of rights or wrongs of this phase, the bare fact exists that the recent agreement in tho bituminous industry was determined j by only 1 r per eent of the em-ployers em-ployers and this minority's decision controlled tho whole." URGES M MMKK STORAGE. : Pre.si at n latlonshlps of employer employ-er and employe in the coal industry, ho declared, comprised "a iieriodic.il national danger," adding that since ( the public through subsequent prices pays tho bill It bad a right to a voice In the business. In addition to Improvement of employment em-ployment relations, Mr Hoover suggested sug-gested that an annual storage of 20 per cent of railway consumption would cro far towards correcting the seasonal fluctuation in coal production. produc-tion. Larger storage by public utilities util-ities and "the possibility of permitting permit-ting the co-opcratlve system of marketing mar-keting developed by the farmers also were put forward by tho secretary as promising beneficial results |