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Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania last week came forward with definite proposals for ending the anthracite coal strike. He invited the miners and operators to meet him at Harrisburg. The miners went, but the operators sent word that they could not get their committee together on such brief notice. So the operators did not attend...
...Pinchot Proposals. Before the miners' committee headed by John L. Lewis, representatives of local Chambers of Commerce, state officers, and Mrs. Pinchot (who was present as a spectator, the meeting being public), the Governor made his proposals, of which the following are the chief features...
Next day the operators' scale committee rejected Governor Pinchot's proposed Board of Investigation and Award, on the ground that it "has power to do but one thing?increase wages...
...President Taft ousted Pinchot for his attack on Richard A. Ballinger, Secretary of the Interior, who had become involved in a forestry scandal. His removal was apparently the end of his officeholding career. Senator Boies Penrose, who called him "Pin-shot," was his enemy and it did not look as if there was any political advancement for him in Pennsylvania. In 1920, to be sure, he was made State Forester...
Then came 1922. There was a split in the regular Republican machine, and Mr. Pinchot-who would believe it?-was elected Governor. He gave Pennsylvania a budget system, trimmed the sails of expenditure and set out to put the State on a sound financial basis. He reorganized the State Government and cut the number of departments and bureaus from more than 100 to 18. He also went out to enforce prohibition...