The representatives of the states are named by the Reichsrat from among the municipal administrations and consumers of coal. The representatives of employers and employés in the mining industries as well as the twelve representatives of the colliers’ associations are elected by the mine groups of the _Arbeitsgemeinschaft_. Two representatives are named by the Prussian Minister of Commerce and Industry. The representatives of the coal trade are named by the German Congress of Commerce and Industry. The representatives of the employers and employés of the industries using coal, and the representatives of the employés of gasworks are elected by their _Arbeitsgemeinschaften_. The representatives of the small industries using coal are elected by the German Chambers of Commerce and Industry. The other representatives are appointed, on the advice of those they represent, by the Minister of Public Economy of the Reich. [71] Stricken out at the demand of the Supreme Council of the Allied and Associated Powers. The Supreme Council addressed the following demand to Germany on September 2, 1919: “The Allied and Associated Powers have examined the German Constitution of August 11, 1919. They observe that the provisions of the second paragraph of Article 61 constitute a formal violation of Article 80 of the Treaty of Peace signed at Versailles on June 28, 1919. This violation is twofold: “1. Article 61 by stipulating for the admission of Austria to the Reichsrat assimilates that Republic to the German States composing the German Empire--an assimilation which is incompatible with respect to the independence of Austria. “2. By admitting and providing for the participation of Austria in the Council of the Empire Article 61 creates a political tie and a common political action between Germany and Austria in absolute opposition to the independence of the latter. “In consequence the Allied and Associated Powers, after reminding the German Government that Article 178 of the German Constitution declares that ‘the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles can not be affected by the Constitution,’ invite the German Government to take the necessary measures to efface without delay this violation by declaring Article 61, Paragraph 2, to be null and void. “Without prejudice to subsequent measures in case of refusal, and in virtue of the Treaty of Peace (and in particular Article 29), the Allied and Associated Powers inform the German Government that this violation of its engagements on an essential point will compel them, if satisfaction is not given to their just demand within 15 days from the date of the present note, immediately to order the extension of their occupation on the right bank of the Rhine.” Article 29 of the Treaty of Peace refers to Map No. 1 which shows the boundaries of Germany and provides that the text of Articles 27 and 28 will be final as to those boundaries. Article 80 reads as follows: