'M' U (TT-TTtT At, v en ' " '&; ; .,- , i .;iW.UVW. W '.,-. , ". .-., 'T7jii;v f "rt. v- , N? .' ' r . THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1902. if j- 1 '' r '""aV BURNS BRINGS UP A NEW COMPLICATION (Concluded from Pago 3,) region Instead of ronuntmlcntltig with iho hemls of tht orsnnlsnllon at Indian apolis, otitfldc of thlH district entirely' Not DcBlvnblo, A. It would noil tier lc possible nor de sirable The nnlhlnrllo miners want to b nti'inlicio of tins United Mine AVorkors ot Ameilcn. Tho nnthrnclto miners linvo line) mi lnde)cndent niut Ropiirnto. nrgnnlzntlon In tlio prist." they Imvo liud jiovernl of them, and they luivo gone, they nic not here now; they do not want nny more of their organizations to go the wmo wny they wont In tho dnyn that nro Bono by. Mr. Torrcy brought out thai strikes ciin bo declnrcd by a bare majority vote; th til boys under JO yours ot age have a half vote, and over 1C a full voto, and that the last strike was de clared by loss thnn a seven per cent, majority. Mr. Toirey iiIho put In evidence a ropy of Mr. Mitchell's statement of the day following the .Shenandoah riot of July .11, In which ho declined no one had been killed or seriously Injured; that the stories had been greatly exag gerated uud the facts distorted, and that tho trouble rould have been avert ed If the deputies were cool and dis creet. Mr. .Mitchell explained that the state ment was based on Information which he considered tellable at tho time. Mr. Darrow ot this juncture mudo to the commission a statement of the reasons a trades union does not want to he Incorporated. Principal among tliesc was that If an operator for In stance sued a union nnd got Judgment ngulnst It. which the union was finan cially unable to meet, the operator rould apply for a receiver and wind up the organization. A trade union, un like a business, can not be run by n receiver. Major Warren drew attention to tho fact that In Pennsylvania there Is it special statute for Incorporating1 trades unions, which docs away with Mr. Dar row's dlftlculty. Paid for by Weight. Attorney John J. Murphy hero Intro duced the act of March SO, 187ii. provid ing that all coal shall bo paid for by weight, whore practicable to weigh It, and pointed out that while It might he the case that It was generally supposed this act was repealed by the general mining act of 1891, such was not the case. The only repealing clause In the general act was one to the effect that "all acts or parts of acts Inconsistent hciewlth are hereby repealed." Mr. Murphy pointed out that there was nothing lu the general act with which the act of 187i could be Inconsistent. Commissioners niuy and Parker ex pressed surprise that such an Import ant act should have been lost sight of, and declared It would be an Important factor in determining the commission ers' action on the question of weigh ing coal, providing It was sustained. None of the companies' attorneys chal lenged the accuracy of Sir. Murphy's claim. On le-dlrect examination Mr. Mitch ell, lu answer to Mr. Darrow's ques tions told, among other things, that the division of sentiment at the Hanlc ton convention was not as to whether or not to strike, but as to the time to begin the strike. Mr. Mitchell, himself, favored the strike this year, but ad vised that It be not entered upon until later. By Mr. Dnrrowi Q. Mr. Mitchell, when this strike wnn declared, did anybody excepting the nn thracllo. mine workers voto tinon tho question? A. No. sir. Q. Yoil did not In nURUrato this strike yourself? A. No, sir. Q. Something hns been said oh lo the mnjorlty by which this Rlrlko was do clnrcd. Was the division of sentiment purely ns to tho tlmo of striking? A. Yes, sir. The division on tho dnto was caused purely by my advice that tho stilke bo not Inaugurated ot that lime. Q. You thought It would bo more fn vorahlo to delay It? A 1 h.id two pur poses hi seeking the delay. One was tho llngeilng hopo that wo might bo able to sooiiro bettor conditions of employment, or better relationship by mediation or by conferenco with tho operators. Kail lug In that, the oilier was that wo would Inaugurate the strike at a moro propitious time. Q. Your opposition, or nny opposition In tho organization had no refoicnco to tho Injustice of these demands? A. None at all, simply that wo might moro speedily lomedy the conditions, that tho sttlko would not bo so protracted It Inaugur ated later In the year. Q. Now, somo questions wore asked ns to cases of contract. Supposing where a contract existed any loeal organization should fall to carry out that contract, then what would ba done as to that or ganization? A. Wo should repilinand them at once, and Immediately advise them to carry out tho contract. Q. On falluro to do It? A. On failure, to carry out tho contiacl, wo would cither sus pend them from tho orgaiilzntlon or ie- voko their charters. Q. All these organi zations have a charter from the general body? A. Yes, sir. Q. And the way you discipline the locals, the last discipline, Is to revoke their charters? A. Yes, sir. Q. Then, In case that happens, would other union men go on and entry out the contract? A. If any part of the employ er's particular men were willing to carry out the contracts, we would immediately reorganize and nllow them to catry out thu contract. If none of them were will ing to do thiit. we' would take tho char ter and make tho mine non-union. Q. So the work would go on? A. It would go on as a non-union mine. Q. One clauso of your constitution, I believe, speaks of no miner being al lowed to have moro than two laborers. A. Yes, sir. Q. What Is the purpose of that? A. Well, one purpose Is to prevent favor 30STAMPS30 With a Dollar Purchase, Friday, Saturday and Holiday, November 21, 22 and 24. Great Sale of Ladies' Coats We will open a new assortment of extreme novelties in High-Class Long and Short Coats. No two alike, but all made in the height of fashion. Misses' and Children's Coats, La- j dies Capes, Suits, Dress and Street Skirts. Hundreds of choice 4 Furs, warranted as represented. t : Special Sale of Silks and Dress Goods New Fine Silks Beautiful bright Clan Plaid Silks, Too for f,0o Beautiful bright Clan Fluid Silks, 51.00 for Toe Good Colored Taffetas. 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Illsm, nnd another Is that tho system In this field haw been absolutely vicious, nnd It often develops Into nn unfair distribu tion of Iho ears, so Unit a man having sftVernl Iah6rers may recelvo cars to loort, to the exclusion of somo other person who hns not several lnboreis, and the earnings of the men not having n lot of laborers nro very low, because of tho custom of allowing one contiactor to have several. Q. Bo you know of somo Instances of larger numbers of laboreis being em ployed? A, I know In a general way, 1 do not know of specific Instances. Q. How high do somo of them run? A, As high ns twenty. Tho Chairman: In tho anthracite re gion? Tho Witness! A'cs. It hns been so that ono man would have twenty laborers. I think thnt that Is not true, however, slnco tho union cumo hero. Conditions in This Region. Rev. Dr. Roberts took the stand when Mr. Mitchell stepped down at 12.15, nnd was still on at adjourning time, under cross-examination by Mr. AVolvcrton, counsel for the Heading company. Dr. Roberts was examined In chief by Mr. Darrow. He began by giving n raft of information concerning conditions In the anthracite region. Some of his information was its fol lows: The coal region Is ISO square miles In extent, embracing eight counties. Tho total population is 650,000. Of this number 450,000 are directly dependent on the coal Industry. In nrrlvlng'dt his findings regard ing wages, Rev. Dr. Roberts said be had consulted due bills mainly. Ex treme cases where a minor earned $150 a month or worked n month without any net earnings were discarded. Mr. AA'olverton protested this was not good evidence. It would be necessary ho said to cull In each miner to llnd out how it buppened he earned so little or so much. Tho companies, ho said, would put In primary evidence showing "what every minor received. Sir. Dar row agreed that his side would be con tent if the companies would do this. Tho witness wus next asked If condi tions had changed in mining conditions of a general character. He said there had been. Tho big veins have been worked out and the thin ones are be ing developed. As Mr. Burns had stat ed, the independent operators are work ing the more difficult veins. There are four methods of payment, car, weight, yard and day. The wages are not at all uniform In the region, and discrimination makes very dissim ilar -wages in the same mine. Ten or fifteen per cent, of the total production of the northern coal fields Is paid for by weight: in the middle field none by weight, and In the southern, 30 per cent, by the car, and 70 per cent, by the yard. The size of the car has grown stead ily since the car method was adopted. After the strike of 'Oft. tho Delaware, Lackawanna nnd Western, Delaware and Hudson and Pennsylvania com panies, which refused to adopt the sliding scale fixed with their employes on a rate of 93t cents a car for the Diamond car. The witness said the Diamond car originally contained from 74 to 7fi cubic feet and was to have six inches of topping. The present cal varies from SO to 92 cubic feet. BEECHAM'S PILLS o How Topping Is Lost. A car loaded in the mine seldom has the same "topping" when it reaches the surface. Miners some times "crib" their cars In loading, putting In the coal so that it will leave large spaces. This will cause n settlement when the car is jolted In transportation. Some times a car that is fairly and properly loaded will have its topping scraped off by low roof. The natural "shaking down" of coal in transportation from the breast to the breaker averages live per cent. A miner is never allowed, anything extra If there is more than six Inches of topping. Payment by tho car has been the cause of dissatisfac tion and complaint ever since 1S50, said the witness. in the early days of mining the miners were principally Irish, AA'clsh, English, Scotch nnd Germans. In 1S70 Southern Europeans began to come In large numbers. Tn 1S0O this Immigra tion begun to full off. The mode of living of the early miner and tho new comer Is vastly different. In lS70-'"fi the emigrants were slnglo men. After that married men and their families began to come. All the South ern Europeans, excepting tho Italians, who came nftcr 1S75, as a general rule can be considered settlers. Strikes began In 18G8, .lust after tho war for tho 8-hour day. For two years there was almost constant friction. In 1S70 the Southern Europeans began to flunk In here. In answer to a question by Commis sioner AVatkins ns to whether or not in his Investigations he had found any evldenco of the corporations being In terested In tho Importation of the-e Immigrants. The witness said that Slavs, themselves, had told htm that coal operators, especially the independ ent operators, had been Instrumental In bringing these people here, They hud ship ugents in Einopo gathering them up nnd sending them over, mid other agents In Now York turning them Into the coal fields. Acquiring Homes. the remedy for the people, recommended by friends to friends, not pushed by doubtful methods, deserving of their popularity, now enjoying a greater success than ever, still worth a guinea a box. TAKE NOTICE! Beecham's Pills" do not promise more than they can perform, and they perform all they promise. Beecham's Pills are the safest and most perfectly reliable medicine ever offered to the Public for Biliousness and Sluggish or Disordered Liver. They have no equal in cases of Indigestion and Loss of Appetite. They are simply splendid as a Tonic and Restorative of the Nervous System. 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Twenty.four under 12 years, and ten working under ground who arc under It years of age, The witness also lold, Incidentally, that daughters of miners aro working at night In silk mills, and asked that It be formally protested against "in the name ot humanity." The average ago at which miners' children leave fcchoo, taking Muhanoy Oily and Taylor as crlterlons, Is y3 years. In tho mining regions, of tho pupils In High schools, less than 5 per cent, are miners' children, and less than 2 per cent, aro among the graduates. Tho average number of paupers In Pennsylvania Is 173 In 100,000. m the anthracite region the average Is 193 In 100,000. To bliaw tho hazardous character of tho miners' employment, Dr, Roberts gave a mass of ilgures nnd compari sons. Tho average number killed In the anthracite mines Is greater than tho average among railroad employes, though, as to accidents, the conditions aro reversed. In tho last twenty-one years, the number of Inside employes in the nnthrnclto mines who wera fa tally Injured was 4.42 to the 1,000. The region has numerous churches, and the people are, generally speaking, regular church goers, the witness said. Thero are many Catholics among jho people, possibly a majority, nnd all of these attend church very religiously. There are eleven hospitals lu tho reg ion, only one of which, the Moses Tay lor hospital, is not either a state or quasi-public Institution. The coming of the United Mine Workers, the witness said, tended to better tho people, especially the foreign-speaking mine workers. The de crease of saloons In Schuylkill county was cited as an Indication of this. By association In the local meetings with the English-speaking men they wern given a coiihciousness of importance and Individual worth. There have been eleven big strikes in tho region in fifty years, about half ot them general. These strikes took place In 1S50, 1S6S, 1S69, 1S70-71, 1S72, 1873, 1S77, 1S79, 18S7 and 1S8S. In answer to a question by Commis sioner Clark as to whether or not tho violence In the last strike was greater than 'during previous strikes, the wit ness said he was not able to testify as to this. The reports of violence, how ever, were greatly exaggerated lu tho newspapers. Dr. Roberts was cross-examined by Mr. AA'olverton, attorney for the Read ing company, relative to his statistics. First he had tho witness admit that ho got most of his Ilgures from tho bureau of mines and department of labor. Mr. AVolverton then created some amu.se niont by asking the witness to give his opinion as to the reliability of various book reports and the like, among which was an 1901 publication on Anthracite Alining by Commissioner Parker; and 1901 reports by Commissioner Wright, head of the department of labor, anil Assistant Recorder Mosely, secretary ot the inter-state commerce commission. Tho witness admitted these nre reliable. Mr. Wolverton got tho witness to ad mit that It Is impracticable to pay by weight in "pitching veins," which ob tain so generally in the southern dis trict, where the Reading company's mines are all located. Mr. Darrow in terrupted to explain that tho miners were not asking for payment by weight in pitching veins. The demand was for payment by weight where practicable, ho explained. In pitching veins it la impossible to throw the rock and slate aside. It must be sent out with the coal. Therefore it Is necessary to pay in this region by the yard. The impracticability of apportioning the prepared product equally among tho miners as a means of fixing a basis of pay was also admitted by tho witness. It would not be fair to the company, because It would decrease output nnd It would not bo fair to tho energetic miner to make hiin accept the samo share as a luzy one. Excerpts from Book. ' Mr. Wolverton then began reading somo excerpts from Dr. Roberts' book published last year and presuming to bo an exhaustive general and technical treatise on the anthracite coal regions. Ono of the first things Mr. Wolverton road from the book was: "Tho Read ing company has the reputation of dealing fulrly and justly with Its em ployes," "Is that correct?" Inquired Commis sioner Wntklns, "I'll admit Its reliability," replied Mr. Wolverton, Ono of the next tilings ho read was the declaration that tho Ungllsh-speak-Ing miners, us a uile, aro not as in dustrious ns tho forelgn-speaklng miners; that they rarely spend more than live hours a dny in Iho mines. Other excerpts from various, pages ot the book were Introduced to prove tho very contentions tho operators nre making. One passage very particularly set forth that tho variation of wnges was closely linked with the very vari able conditions und that it was imprac ticable to make rates of wnges uni form. Dr, Roberts admitted this was true now as It wus when ho wrote his book, but he wanted to add that there was no reuiou why the tnmo class of labor should not receive the sumo pay where conditions were similar. The samo allowances should be made, ho thought, for setting props, cutting rock, balling water and tho like in all col lieries In a district. Mr. Wolverton was still engaged In examining' Dr. Roberts on his book when adjourning time came, Just Ask to See the Quaker!! ! Our sale of Quaker Skirts this week is a vital occa sion in Skirt economy a host of mighty values. Picture if you please a Skirt that looks like silk, feels like silk and wears ten times longer and harder than silk. IT'S Tttf: QUAKER. The one and two dollar bills in your purse rustle with importance for these skirts are selling at 00.75 j 0 t EACH Made after the most approved designs in the same factory, by the same people and on the same machines as the $15 silk skirts. 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