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Show -COMMENTS" RATION ADDICTS AT IT AGAIN Admittedly the coal strike impaired coal production but before ration addicts rush the nation into another snowstorm of ration blanks, it vvoud be well to consider the opinion of men who at least nominally still run the coal mines, the former owners and operators. One of the leaders in the coal industry said. Ithink allocation of coal is dangerous to the government, to our war effort, to our civilian population, and to the coal industry. I personally think it is inexcusable. I think if we are short of coal, we are not short over two or three per cent on the year's production. This two or three per cent was lost by strikes which the government could have prevented. "The way to cure this situation is not to create further shortages. Allocation and rationing will put thousands of people peo-ple who ought to be at work to interfering with the normal movement of coal. There is a way to cure it. That is by working work-ing an extra hour a day until we make up this loss. If we had an 8-hour clay, face to face, this shortage can be made up in three or four months. Proper government agencies . . . can arrange this and they can arrange immediately for additional addition-al price to cover additional costs. |