Annoyed if not perplexed is Pennsylvania's Governor George Earle by bootleg coal mining, which began about five years ago in the depth of Depression and is now a $30,000,000-a-year industry based squarely on theft but supporting a sizable chunk of his State's population in a manner to which it has become thoroughly accustomed. The coal' leggers rumble ominously about "human rights." After a personal visit to the bootleg fields last year, Governor Earle appointed a five-man Anthracite Commission to find an answer.
After a long succession of disappointingly impersonal reports, the Anthracite Commission...
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