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These things are no secrets in Pennsylvania: 1) that John L. Lewis wants his friend and fellow Mine Worker, Lieutenant Governor Thomas Kennedy, elected Governor this year; 2) that Pennsylvania's Democratic boss, Senator Joseph F. Guffey does not want him at the head of the ticket because Mr. Kennedy is a better labor man than Democrat; 3) that Pennsylvania's present Governor, George Howard Earle, can hardly afford to alienate either Joseph Guffey or the strongest labor leader in U. S. history if he expects to be elected Senator this year and President in 1940. Last week...
Carter Coal Co. of Coalwood, W. Va. is pleased with itself because it brought the suit which broke the original Guffey Coal Act in the Supreme Court. Carter Coal Co. is now out to duplicate this feat with the Guffey-Vinson Coal Act. This Act set up a seven-man national Bituminous Coal Commission in Washington, with the major purpose of creating minimum prices for soft coal. In a city where frustrated bickering is a fine art, the Bituminous Coal Commission set a new high before it finally produced its first set of minima two months ago (TIME...
...industry and railroads at the expense of small consumers. Therefore, in setting up minima, the Commission arbitrarily raised the price of railroad coal to a level nearer that for small consumers. The A. A. R. protested through John Carson, consumers' counsel, whose job was specially created by the Guffey-Vinson Act to protect the consumers' interests. But the B. C. C. refused to reconsider its action. The A. A. R.'s success in court last week led many another coal buyer to bring similar petitions and it looked as if the whole minimum price schedule would have...
...practiced in Butler, Pa. until 1923 when he began his coal career as president & general manager of Erie Coal Mining Co. A member of Governor Pinchot's Pennsylvania Coal Commission in 1931, he had a hand in drafting the NRA coal code, went to Washington under the first Guffey Act as a National Coal Commissioner. A Guffey man, he is extremely dictatorial, rules the commission, whose majority supports him, with an iron hand. Whenever this backing has wavered (and it has done so frequently over patronage, office furniture and Senatorial meddling) B. C. C. has spluttered like wet coal...
Meanwhile, B. C. C. is facing its crucial test, a challenge on constitutional grounds from the doughty Carter Coal Co. of Coalwood, W. Va. Carter Coal brought the suit which resulted in the Supreme Court's invalidation of the original Guffey Act. It would dearly love to do the same with the Guffey-Vinson...