GRAHAM A. BARDEN, North Carolina, Chairman AUGUSTINE B. KELLEY, Pennsylvania JOHN F. KENNEDY, Massachusetts CLEVELAND M. BAILEY, West Virginia SAMUEL K. MCCONNELL, JR., Pennsylvania WALTER E. BREHM, Ohio WINT SMITH, Kansas CARROLL D. KEARNS, Pennsylvania THRUSTON BALLARD MORTON, Kentucky THOMAS H. WERDEL, California HAROLD H. VELDE, Illinois CHARLES E. POTTER, Michigan RICHARD B. VAIL, Illinois FRED G. HUSSEY, Chief Clerk DAVID N. HENDERSON, Assistant General Counsel II CONTENTS (The hearing before the subcommittee is included in this Bishop, Clay M., coal mine owner, Manchester, Ky. Boyd, Degen, president of the Arkansas-Oklahoma Coal Operators' Association; accompanied by Isaac Lewis, president of the Quality Excelsior Coal Co., Greenwood, Ark., and a director of the Arkan- Ferguson, Charles, acting safety director, United Mine Workers_. Howes, Alfred L., president of the Central West Virginia Coal Pro- ducers Association; accompanied by W. Guy Tetrick, coal mine Hyslop, James, president, Hanna Coal Co-- Kelly, Robert G., Charleston, W. Va., appearing on behalf of the 28, 42 208 36, 42 171 Linkous, C. E. director of safety, Island Creek Coal Co., and asso- 176, 205 Record of lost-time injuries_ 178 Moody, Joseph E., president; accompanied by Walter R. Thurmond, 126 Quillen, Richard, Kentucky River Coal Corp., Hazard, Ky- 166 29, 42 H. R. 7408, a bill to amend Public Law 49, Seventy-seventh Congress, so as to provide for the prevention of major disasters in coal mines_. Letters, statements, etc., submitted for the record- Bain, H. Foster, letter to R. M. Lambie, chief, department of mines, 125 Barden, Hon. Graham A., letter to Hon. Augustine B. Kelley, appoint- 148 |