Coal Division

Regulation of the Coal Industry. BY HOWARD N EAVENSON (Tech Pub 711, also Trans, vol 119 3400 words) A review of conditions in the bituminous coal industry during the last 15 years and of the attempts to remedy them through Appa¬lachian Coals, Inc, and through the NRA The lack of any provision in the so-called "Guffey" law for conservation of our coal supplies is pointed out and the efforts at regulation of the English coal industry are described Assuming that some regulation of the industry is necessary to maintain reasonable working and living conditions and that Federal control by compulsion will not be possible, the requirements for regulation