per cent of the country’s production
today submitted a formal offer to
the federal coal commission to make
public a complete accounting of cost
of production and wages. The plan
was outlined at an executive confer
ence between the commission and a
special committee of operators head
ed by John G. Brydon. president of
the National Coal association, and in
cluding representatives of all the
larger coal producing corporations
and associations of corporations in
the mining field. The committee also
notified the commission it had com
pleted plans for distributing bitumi
nous coal suitable for use as an an
thracite substitute, in the event a
strike eventuated in the anthracite
region.
Mr. Brydon Inter said sufficient
qualities of low volatile bituminous
could be produced to take place of
anthracite supplies in an emergency
and that the operators concerned
would agree to control of prices by
the government.
Should bituminous miners be called
out in sympathy with anthracite
workers, he declared, non-union bi
tuminous miners, "together with
those in union territory where miners
can be afforded protection existing
law allows," would be able to fur
nish the country an adequate supply
of coal.
The conference between the com
mission and the coal operators will
continue another day or two.
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WASHINGTON, July 29.—Thirty
five years ago, Edward Clifford and
Edward F. Colliday played marbles
in the yard of the little brick school- j
house in Virginia, Cass county, 111 i- f
nols. Both of the Eddies grew up
and went their separate ways, Mr.
