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Pennsylvania's coal-mining Fayette County heard the tramp of soldier feet last week for the first time since the great strike of 1922. Three hundred guardsmen were marched in under orders from Governor Gifford Pinchot which amounted to martial law. Eight thousand striking coal miners looked on stolidly as a week of petty riots and bloodshed ended in peace, only to flare up again in a rash of nasty fights which spread the general disorder into adjoining counties, stopping work in at least 30 collieries...
Sheriff of Fayette County is Harry Hackney who, to hold his job, must stand in well with the mine operators. When Fayette disorders reached the front page. Governor Pinchot proposed to Sheriff Hackney the same remedy he successfully used week before in the Lansdale hosiery strike: let the sheriff withdraw his deputies and turn their job over to the State police. Sheriff Hackney refused, whereupon Governor Pinchot marched his soldiers into the county. Said he: "The miners have the right to organize, to picket peacefully and to assemble in meetings. . . . The mine operators have a right to protection of their...
...steel industry's backdown on "company unions" at NRA hearings in Washington did not diminish U. S. Steel's resistance to unionization in the coal fields. As a matter of "common sense" Governor Pinchot attempted to mediate the Fayette County trouble by summoning United Mine Workers and Frick Coke officials to a peace conference-a meeting which would put the non-union company into direct negotiation with its union...
...this cheap dress & shirt work is done in tenement homes, no reliable figures are available of children employed or wages paid. In a Brooklyn factory lately investigators found 5-year-old girls making 6f an hour ($2.78 per week) threading and sponging pants. In Pennsylvania last May Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the Governor, took to the picket line as a protest against the exploitation of young girls in Northampton and Allentown shirt factories. Employers seduced 15-year-olds-or fired them. When a plant was fined for violating the State working code, the boss would take the fine...
...here the ground was limited. Familiar enough with stockmarket tips, the average citizen could not, except in envy, condemn private individuals who enjoyed the friendship of the House of Morgan. But he could view with alarm the presence in public office of Morgan favorites. When Pennsylvania's Governor Pinchot found State Supreme Court Justices William I. Schaffer and John W. Kephart on the Morgan list, he first demanded their resignations to save the bother of impeachments. In Massachusetts onetime Governor Fuller announced he would run against Lieutenant Governor Bacon for the Governorship because Mr. Bacon was a Morgan insider...