Coal, Government Ownership or Control: Government Ownership of Navy Coal Land and Control of the Coal Industry - Couverture souple
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Présentation de l'éditeur
Coal is a public utility. This is the viewpoint from which this book is written. To the minds of those who use the term generally, Coal is a public utility means simply that coal is something that is useful to the public. It means that, of course, but it means much more: it means that coal belongs to the people. On it depend the comfort, even the life, of the people and the commercial supremacy and industrial life of the nation. To waste coal is a sin agains the whole people. Those who have bought the coal land are entitled to all the rights that go with a public utility. Their ownership is in the nature of a perpeitual lease. They hold it in trust for the public use. The lease of a coal mine always contains a provision thaf mining must be carried on without waste, and that the mine may be inspected at any time when such inspection does not interfere with the work of the mine. These provisions help the operator and safeguard the owner. Control such as that is, in effect, the kind we have advocated for the entire coal industry. Operators who do not need control, 2s many of them do not, will not be affected and need not complain. Those who do need it must have it. The public good is paramoimt. For a large pant of the coal land private ownership is the best plan. The stimulus of ownership, the appeal to efficiency, and the urge to new inventories are good for any business. For one part of the coal field, however, government ownership is imperative.
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