Gifford Pinchot was Governor of Pennsylvania
from 1923 to 1927 and from 1931 to 1935. Short weights at tipples
and unfair practices at company stores were concerns of McIntyre miners
as well as those in other coal mining towns. Pinchot's letter is somewhat sympathetic.
In the last paragraph he acknowledges what he terms the "existing
deplorable situation" and indicates that the coal industry will be will
investigated. This letter has been reproduced in the negative for better readability.
Document: courtesy Archives Department, Rochester and Pittsburgh
Coal Company Records, Indiana University of Pennsylvania.