Show TI ST. S L of Pennsylvania Pennsyl vania has stopped the anthracite coal strike before it ft was fairly well be be- gun Isis Ills action reveals what a state stat executive can do if he lie has courage How did he do if it Did Old he call on the federal courts No Did he call ion on on the troops No He lie simply called called call call- ed on common sense sense Common sense told him that he couldn't mine coal without miners Injunctions and threats and rifles 1 IW wouldn't take the place of ml miners ers Solie So SoI I he lie couldn't propose a settlement on I jibe the operators' operators terms odd ullI expect to toI I get coal II I I i I lie He could however propose a set set- settlement settlement on the miners miners' terms and compel the operators to accept or orRet gEt Ret out of the way and allow the I state to mine the coal roal There was great justice in fn the minere min min- ers ere demands Pinchot couldn't see seethe I tile the Justice of their whole demand but he saw sufficient to justify his course courser A wee week of moral pressure ure the only kind of pressure he had upI upon upon up up- I on the miners enabled him to win I them ahem over to his program of partial I J I relief So coal will be mined The rhe eastern eastern east- east I ern ern states will not suffer and the I country has seen something new in Industrial lal statesmanship lp |