[Diskussionsbeitrag zum Kohlenbergbau, Bd. II, S. 704, Nr. 94]

Emil Lederer: Discussion contribution on coal mining (1920)

This brief commission speaking turn distinguishes agreement on an economic objective from disagreement over the organization intended to achieve it. Responding to von Siemens, Lederer maintains that those present share the underlying principle; the disputed issue is whether the proposed arrangement can deliver the desired result.

Die Meinungsverschiedenheit besteht nur darüber, ob die Organisation, die wir vorschlagen, imstande ist, auch das zu leisten oder nicht.

English translation: The disagreement concerns only whether the organization we propose is capable of accomplishing that as well or not.

Lederer thus frames the dispute as one of institutional capability, rather than conflicting economic purposes. He then attributes to von Siemens the concern that Erfassung—the organized collection or accounting of coal—already threatens its economically optimal utilization. The supplied text ends without punctuation during this attribution, so its continuation cannot be established. The intervention’s significance lies in this narrow distinction between a shared objective and contested means; it supplies neither the proposed organization’s details nor a developed rebuttal.