LABOR: Horror in Pennsylvania

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Solution. The miners went to Governor John S. Fisher of Pennsylvania last October. Himself interested on the operators' side, Governor Fisher said little, did even less, in the way of humanitarian relief.

The miners went to President Coolidge. He referred them to Secretary of Labor Davis, who called a conference of operators, all but a few of whom declined to confer. "Be the suffering of the miners on the black head of John L. Lewis,"* muttered the operators to themselves.

Following the Johnson speech last week, burly Representative La Guardia of New York made an inspection tour of Pennsylvania's bleak, black hills and coal dumps. He returned to Congress hammer-and-tonging for immediate action by the Senate.

^{*Prolific, the miners are estimated to have an average of
five dependents apiece, making 300,000 persons affected.} ^{*President of the United Mine Workers of America. His
bitter-end policy was endorsed by other executives of the entire
A. F. of L.}