Bilag Til Betænkning Afgiven Af Statsbaneudvalget Af 1911

202 here apart from the amount of slates left in through careless working and which can he tested best on shipment here, are always the same, and no amount of analyses and guarantees could in any way alter the quality, it only means that speculators put so much extra on the price to compensate for the buying. We note you write with regard to modification of clause 6. So far as we are conserned we certainly would never enter into any contract under which we were prevented from having any recourse to any Court of Law. , With regard to the Strike clauses, we really have nothing to say. It there is a strike and the contractor has no coals to deliver, it is always considered in all contracts in this country to absolve the Contractor from Deliveries1 By the wav, we hear that Owens Merthyr! is still on the list of coals the Danish Railways are willing to accept! . which, if correct, shews how very much out of toucli these railways must be with the conditions of our market, when a speculator called Owen is able to pick up any coals on the Market call them Owens Merthyr and impose them on the Danish Railways, who retain the name on then list, apparently under the impression that it is a Colliery of importance, the same as Bevnons or Nixons. 11 You will notice that the Italian State Railway which used to have very severe conditions found that it did not pay and have now changed over to the modern system of buying on Colliery Certificate and Dock weights and inspecting the coal on shipment. In this way of course, coal is only bought under the name of the colliery in which it is mined and not under fancy names such as Owens Merthyr. There is no colliery of the name of Owen and the name Merthyr means nothing so that Owens Merthyr is simply any coal that Owen likes to ship. Of course if the Railway buy coal without naming the colliery from which it is to be drawn, then very severe conditions would be necessary«. og hår derhos bedt mig gøre følgende Bemærkninger. . 1 Det vil vistnok forstaas, at intet Firma, der har nogen Respekt for sig selv vil indgaa paa en Bestemmelse, som den i § 6, der fuldstændig giver Firmaet i Mod- partens Vold, hvem saa end denne Modpart er, og en Bestemmelse der afskærer Rekurs til Domstolene eller hvilken som helst anden upartisk Afgørelse, er navnlig ogsaa saa uforenelig med engelske Begreber, at det ikke kan forbavse, at mine Klienter vægre sig ved at indgaa derpaa. . 12 1 Hvad dernæst § 8 angaar, saa er det her som i Udlandet overalt Sædvane, at Køberen bærer Risikoen for Striker og Lock-outer. Det ses imidlertid ikke af Ordlyden af § 8, om det er Hensigten, at der ved Fastsættelsen af Pristillæg eller Prisafslag for de substituerede Kul skal gaas ud fra Kontraktpreisen eller fra denne med saadant Tillæg, som er foraarsaget ved Arbejdsstandsningen, idet Kulpriserne i saadant Tilfælde sædvanlig stige betydeligt. I første Tilfælde vilde Leverandøren komme til at bære Tabet, og dette er, som nævnt, i Strid med almindelig Sædvane. Ligeledes indeholder § 8 i. f. en Bestemmelse, der ganske voldgiver Leverandøren til Statsbanernes Bestemmelse. 1. 1 Jeg tillader mig derfor paa mine Klienters Vegne, avis Navn, om ønskes, gerne skal blive opgivet, at henstille til behagelig Overvejelse, om der ikke ved frem- tidige Licitationer kunde være Anledning til at ændre do nævnte Bestemmelser i Betingelserne, saaledes at de bliver mere akeeptable for eventuelle Leverandorer. København, den 24de April 1909. Ærbødigst Ulf Hansen.