Imperial Valley press., 1923-08-27
PUBLIC RIGHTS
URGED IN TALK
TO DELEGATES
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wages TO the miners, but it means
also the loss of health among mil
lions of American families, loss of
comfort, of working power and of
time.
~ express a truth that no one can
DENY when l say that the anthracite
using people of the United States
are losing patience and I urge you
to consider that fact with care.
1.-THE public demands that this
controversy be settled and that Il
suspension of mining be avoided.
Settlement means that neither
side can get everything it would
like to have. The PUBLIC needs and
must have coal and / am confident
that the public is going to have
it. 1t is my duty by every lawful
means at my command to insure to
the public the necessary supply. y
Not For Arbitration
Pinehot granted IA veiied assur
ance to the miners that he would
not press for arbitration of the
matter when he said:
Il am fully aware that the strike
is a right which would not be az
bitrarily abridged or denied. -
Speaking before the delegates
assembled about him, Pinchot open
sed his remarks by stating he had
called them together " for the pur-
pose of finding way to keep the
anthracite mines in operation. .
He said he was now acting So
lely in my capacity as governor of
the state of Pennsylvania and with
the rights of the state of Pennsyl-
vania and other anthracite using
states dearly in mind. -
1--WE are on the threshold of
WINTER Pinchot told them q
call your attention again to our
duty to the public, yours as miners
and operators, Yine as executive OF
the only anthracite producing state,
Must Reach Agreement
"The eleventh hour is upon us,
and the crisis has now been reach
ed. We now do in this eleventh
hour what should have been done
before.
at can be done and must be
done. -
Explaining why he invited the
miners to confer secretly with him
first, he said they were the 'plain-
tiffs in this case.
Other conferences besides these
two may be arranged later, he
suggested. He said he proposed to
treat the conferences as confiden-
tial and asked that both sides re-
frain from making a public de
claration during them. He said the
urgency of time justified that re-
quest.
Pinchot devoted the greater por-
/ ton of his remarks to the needs
of the public. He said the interest
of the public in the strike is two
/ fold.
Public Interest Two Fold
+ -. 1t is utterly wrong that the
people should be made again to bear
the enormous and most oppressive
burden of II shortage.
The people Want "a just settle
ment because am unjust arrange
ment not endure.
The governor pointed further to
the fact that the country now is
entering upon a period of prosper
/ ity after prolonged depression.
"Our railroads are heavily taxed
| Already" he said. "An uneven
output of coal viii tend TO block
, transportation, and the blocking of
transportation will be almost as
effective in making commercial
shortage as closing the mines.
Phillip Murray, first vice presi-
dent of the United Mine Workers,
headed the union delegation at the
conference. He told newspaper men
before going in that he had full
power to act.
The miners will go into session
with the governor at 2 p. m. today
and the operators at 9 a. III. tomor-