The Conclusions and Recommendations of the U. S. Coal Commission As to Labor Relations in Bituminous Coal Mining

Abstract

dustry, even though many parts of the paper might apply equally to anthracite. The Commission's study of labor relations consisted mainly of an inquiry into the day-to-day relations between operators and miners, the factors that more immediately affect those relations, and the procedure that governs them. It is, in addition, a study of some of the larger issues between employer and employe that come up in connection with the renewing of agreements and give rise to the danger of a national strike. To present the whole of that study would require much more time than is available for this paper. I shall, therefore, have to limit myself to general statements concerning the conclusions and recommendations from