COAL: Anarchy Explored

The condition of quiet but actual anarchy which has existed in four eastern counties of his State since 1931 last week engaged for the first time the active attention of Pennsylvania's Governor since 1935, rich George H. Earle. In khaki overalls and a head-lamped miner's cap, Governor Earle inspected a few of the thousands of bootleg holes and abandoned mines from which 20,000 men and boys are openly stealing some $32,000,000 worth of anthracite coal per year from company-owned lands. In Pottsville, Mahanoy City and Shamokin he conferred with citizens and...

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