This recorded commission speaking turn addresses the proposed inclusion of gasworks in the German coal community (deutsche Kohlengemeinschaft). Lederer combines a procedural proposal with a qualified institutional position: unresolved technical questions should be clarified by a small working group, while coordination of gasworks’ by-products need not require removing the works from municipal operation.
Wenn ich mir dazu einen Antrag gestatten darf, so würde ich vorschlagen, für diese Frage vielleicht eine kleine Gruppe, die eher arbeitsfähig ist und die auch über die Ferien hinaus in der nächsten Zeit imstande wäre, zusammenzutreten, zu bestimmen, die alle noch offenen Fragen durch eine Unterhaltung mit Technikern klarstellen könnte.
English translation: If I may put forward a motion on this matter, I would suggest appointing a small group for this question, perhaps one better able to work effectively and also able to meet in the near future beyond the holiday period, which could clarify all outstanding questions through discussion with technical experts.
The proposal makes technical consultation a practical next step. Lederer then distinguishes his own assessment from the obstacles to implementation. He considers the danger of including gasworks relatively small, but expects considerable resistance to withdrawing them from municipal operation; he also acknowledges substantive objections without specifying them. This distinction leads to a narrower recommendation, following Dr. Vogelstein’s suggestion:
Ich würde es infolgedessen für ausreichend halten, wie Herr Dr. Vogelstein eben andeutete, den Verkauf dieser Nebenprodukte, überhaupt die Verwertung dieser im Gaswerk abfallenden Nebenprodukte in einer ganz losen Form, sei es durch Preisbestimmung oder durch Anmeldung der Produktion, bei einer Stelle zu erfassen.
English translation: Consequently, I would consider it sufficient, as Dr. Vogelstein just indicated, to bring the sale of these by-products, and indeed the utilization of these by-products arising in the gasworks generally, within the remit of a single body in a very loose form, whether through price-setting or through registration of production.
The contribution’s central move is to separate organizational incorporation from economic coordination. A common body could oversee by-product utilization through prices or production reporting without the stronger intervention associated with incorporating gasworks themselves. Its significance lies in this limited institutional compromise, rather than in a fully developed scheme for reorganizing coal mining.
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