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on the company's books as "two-hand-ed"
places, and It was naturally be
lieved that these men worked two
lianded. The company was not yet ad
mitting that the men worked four
handed, at least not for any consider
able part of the time, and was Betting
exact information In the matter.
.Much amusement was created during
the first hour of the morning by Mr.
Darrow's cross-examination of George
W. Bowen, of North Scranton, the
poet-miner, who deserted the union In
the. last stiike nnd worked as a watch
man at the Storm colliery of the Dela
ware, Lackawanna anil Western com
pany. ,I?lke lies-. Dr. Roberts, Mr. Bo wen
hud written a book "The Legend of the.
Mines and Other Poems." The book
was published while Mr. Bowen was ap
parently an enthusiastic union man and
contained some strong lines lauding
Mitchell, and unionism In general, and
nnathemlzlug men who would work
during the strike.
When Mr. Dai-row staited in to parade
lieforo Mr. Bowen these musings of an
other day, the witness forestalled him
end emphatically declared that his ut
terances regarding unions were
''shielded satire." After hearing some
pl them, Judge Gray was moved to re
mark: "Mr. Bowen, you were too care
ful In shielding your satire."
Mr. Darrow closely approached being
Inconsiderate of Mr. Dowen's liner sen
sibilities In some of his comments. Tils
parting shot was ilia most unkindest
cut- of till,
Yoii sold a largo number ot your
books, did you not, Mr, Bowen?" asked
Mr. Darrow.
','Two editions," proudly replied the
Xoet.
"Now, 'honestly, Mr, Bowen," said
Mr. Darrow, "don't you think' the peo
ple who, you say, threw stones ut you
were tlioso ylio bought your book?"
The witness would not deign a reply.
Anyhow, it would not have been heard
for n full minute.
During Ills recital of the wrongs to
whch lie had been subjected, Mr,
Howen, uinong other things, told about
bis little homo having been attacked
nnd, with a vehemence that would not
be looked for in one of Ills nature, ho
declared: "If my homo had been tie
Ktroyed by those union men, I would
have held John Mitchell responsible for
It with his llfo!" Mr. Mitchell smiled,
Col, II, M, Boles, to whom the book
Is dedicated, was an Interested listener
to the cross-examination.
Jumes Ellas, of Itlclnnondale, testl-
nea tiiat his house was dynamited ufter
Mrlkers had threatened him. Two of
those who mudo tho threats were mem
bers of the United Mine Workers. Alex
ander Bolomon made a threat on Sat
urday and the house whs dynamited J
inn next aionuuy night. Anotner threat
was made to him by a Inlander at 0
o'clock on the evening of the dynamlt
IllSV Wife and Child at Home.
He, his wife and elght-yeur-old child
were In the house when the dynamit
ing took place. The bomb was put on
the front porch. It broke down tho
front door and smashed all the win
dows. James Fahey, of Buffalo, special
agent of the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western company, was called to
show that the tourler-Herald, official
organ of the Central Labor union of
Wllkes-Barre, which printed boycott
lists, has us one of its proprietors,
Charles Thane, who Is a member of the
United Mine Workers, and who was
an organizer for .the union. Objection
was made by Mr. Darrow, and Presi
dent Mitchell protested that the United
Mine Workers had no control over or
connection with the paper.
Mr. Lenahun called attention to the
fact that at the head of the Cotirlor
ITerald is printed "Owned by the Cen
tral Labor union"; that tho. United
Mlno Workers is one of the organiza
tions allied with the Central Labor
union, and that, although Mr. Mitchell
lived In Wilkes-Barre many months,
not far from the office of, the Courier
Herald, lie never repudiated tho dec
laration of the paper that it was owned
by an organization of which his union
was a "part.
Mr, Lenahan nlso wanted to show
that National Board Member Fallon,
of tho United Mlno Workers, mado ef
forts to get ball for Editor Thane, when
he was arrested for criminal libel by
some of the boycotted parties, but
Judge Cray refused to accept the tes
timony, because it did not bring re
sponsibility homo to the United Mine
Workers,
Mr, Lenahun read from the Courier
Herald a list of tho "Wo Don't Patron
ize" articles. Among them, were sev
eral brands of cuffs. "I suppose," sug
gested Judgo Gray, "they don't patron
ize the brand of cutis tho non-union
men have been getting."
Max Lazar, of South Woshlugton
avenue Hats, who remained at work at
the Dodge colliery of tho Delaware,
Lackawanna nnd Western company, In
this city, testified that lato onn night,
while he was watching from his up.
stairs window, he saw a man throw
something into ids house through nu
open window in the lower part of the
house. He rushed down, and, on tho
floor of a bed room, whore some of his
children were asleep, found a bottle of
powder with a lighted squib inserted
in its neck. He extinguished the squib
and preserved tho bottle,
The Bottle Exhibited,
Special Ofllcer T. V. Lewis exhibited
the "bottle." It was of a quart cap
acity and filled to tho neck with black
blasting powder, Mr. McCarthy, on
cross-examination, tried to minimize
the damage that would have resulted
had tho explosion occurred. The wit
ness insisted thero would have been
nothing left of the house.
Eugene Detty, a young man employed
by Morrell Bros., gardeners, of Green
Ridge, told that he was going on a visit
to relatives in Justus, on the night
of Sept. 20, and upon alighting from a
car In Prlceburg, had gone but a short
distance up tho road, when fifteen for
eigners pounced upon him front am
bush and despite his protests that their
accusation that he was' u "scab" were
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untrue, beat him unmercifully. He was
laid up for three months. The witness
insisted that he never worked in the
mines and did not intend to.
George Meyle, an engineer ul Oly
phant No. 2 colliery of the Delaware
and Hudson company, told that one day
on his way to work, during the strike,
he encountered a crowd of fifty or seventy-five
strikers, led by Stephen Reap.
Reap asked him to turn back. Tho
crowd gathered about him, and its
manner was Buch that he decided to
grant Mr. Reap'a request.
William Whltbeck, who was doing
some haying on a Delaware nnd Hud
son farm at Olyphant, told of being
frequently molested, and that once a
crowd of strikers threatened fo throw
him into the river.
Thomas Kennedy, a 15-year-old boy
from Curbondale, told the story of a
committee of mine workers attempting
to havo him discharged from Kelly's
drug store, because his father, William
Kennedy, was working as an engineer
at a Delaware and Hudson mine. Pro
prietor Kelly was traveling through
the west, and the heart clerk, Thomas
Shannon, told tho committee he had no
power to discharge the boy. The com
mltteo came around the next day and
repeated Its demand, adding that If the
boy was not discharged in three days
they would place n boycott on the store.
The clerk sent for the boy's father,
nnd after talking the thing over it wns
decided that the boy should lay off to
save the absent proprietor from the
boycott.
School Children Struck.
William Kennedy, the boy's father,
corroborated this story, and, told, fur
ther, that the pupils at tho public
school which his two youngest children
were attending, wont on strike becuuse
of their aversion to associating with,
the children of a "scab." Ho withdrew
his children from the school and sent
them to St. Rose academy, conducted
by Catholic nuns.
White-haired Captain Joseph If. Dug
gan, of West Market street, Scranton,
who continued nt work in his position
ns engineer nt the Leggett's Creek col
liery of the Delaware and Hudson com
pany, broke down and cried as he re
lated on tho stand, how tho Father
Whltty Total Ahatlnenco society, of
which he was a member for twenty
seven years, demanded his resignation
because he would not give up his Job.
He was drlllmnster of tho society for
many years, and his whole heart was
wrapped up in It, '
Ho nlso told of being frequently
hooted, Jeered and stoned by strikers
ns he wus on his way to nnd from
work, nnd that a committee, of the Uni
ted Mine Workers ordered his grocer,
M. J, Clarke, to refuse to sell him
goods.
David E. Lewis, foreman at the
Grassy Island colliery of the Delaware
nnd Hudson company at Olyphant, tes
tified that he was turned bade from
work ouo day by a crowd of 300 strikers,
led by District Board Member Stephen
Reap. Olyphant was very disorderly
during the strike, he declared. One
Sunday morning seven effigies,
were suspended from telegraph
poles in the very heart of
tho town. He knew the mur
dered James Winston very well and
declared he was a highly, respected,
quiet, inoffensive man.
John Lowandofski, who worked at
the Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern company's Dodgo colliery during
the strjko, found a dynamite ourtrldge,
with cap and fuse uttached, lying In
front of his door one night. He heard
men running away, and going out on
the porch found tho. bomb Tho fuse
was lighted. He cut tho fuse with a
knife and prevented an explosion.
Exhibited the Dynamite.
Special Ofllcer Lewis exhibited to tho
commission one of the five sticks of
dynamite which composed tho bomb.
He had it enclosed in an old stocking,
carefully packed in, wet cloths. It had
been previously frozen to lessen the
danger of a. sudden and tragic ad
journment of the hearings. The wit
ness did not contribute much to the
ease of those sitting about the witness
box by his statements of the destruct
ive powers of the bomb. It would blow
a house to pieces, he declared. v
Mary Knltz, of Weston, near Der
ringer, in lower Luzerne county, gave
testimony through Deputy Clerk of the
Courts Charles Mlrtz, acting as inter
preter. A crowd surrounded her house one
evening, when her husband returned
from work in the mines, and stoned-it
for six hours. Every window was
broken and many things inside tho
house were smashed by tho big stones
which passed through th(r windows.
She and her child sought shelter in, the
garret during the bombardments. The
crowd dared the husband to come out,
threatening to hang him to a tree. The
next day they moved to Drlfton, on
receiving a letter threatening that if
they did not leave the place in two
days their house would bo burned
down. They owned their own homo,
but now are paying rent In Drlfton.
Mrs. Kultz declared she would never
go back to live in it, because of fear.
On cross-examination, Mr. McCarthy
brought out thu fact that Mrs. Knltz
had had William II. Dettery, a district
board member of tho United Mlno
Workers, arrested for leadtng the at
tack, and that at the hearing he was
acquitted and she was held for false
swearing. Mrs. Kultz reiterated that
she was still satisfied that it was Det
tery who led tho mob,
Her husband followed on the stand
and corroborated tho story of the nt-
tuck. Photographs of the house "be
foro" and "after" the bombardment
were shown the commission. It was
testified that the house cost $1,000.
From the "after" pictures, the house
would not bring much more thnn thirty
cents at a forced sale tho morning fol
lowing the bombardment.
The Damage Done.
10. .A, Oberunder, private secretary
for Alexander Coxe, who had the pho
tographs taken, gave nn account of the
damage" done. Stones weighing thirty
pounds were hurled through the doors
and windows, and against the side of
tho house. The stove was broken and
tho furniture, In general, demolished.
Frank Fldatl testified that he
was sent to Winton by J, L. Crawford,
president of tho People's Coal com
pany, to watch the house of Domlnlck
BertakI, one of the employes at the
Oxford colliery, Four men, two or them
officers of the United Mine Workers'
local, waited on him nnd warned him
that If he did not quit protecting Ber
takl's house, ho would be hurt. The
next night two men shot ut him with
revolvers ten times. One of tho bullets
struck him In the leg. He had to go
to the hospital.
Domlnlck BertakI, the owner if tho
house, testified that the next morning,
In company with a squad of soldiers
from Camp AVyckoff, ho went to his
home and found a dynamite bomb in
the yard. The fuse had been lighted,
but went out. John Musgozzl, a union
man, told his wife, and she told him
afterwards, that the union had passed
a resolution to blow up his house. This
testimony was not allowed to go on
the record, as it was hearsay.
Mr. O'Brien asked District President
T. D. Nicholls to stand up. Mr. Nlch-
olls complied. Mr. O'Brien then had
the witness say he knew Mr. Nicholls
and had received a "letter of recom
mendation" from him.
A photographic copy of a letter was
shown District President Nicholls and
he admitted it was a copy of a letter
he had written. Thus, incidentally, was
Mr. Nicholls for the first time heard
to make an utterance before the com
mission. The witness also identified the
letter, and then Mr. O'Brien read It,
with appropriate emphasis. It follows:
Office of the United Mlno Workers.
District No. t.
Officers and Members of the LT. M. W. ot
A Jessup:
Dear Sirs and Brothers: The bearer,
Domlnlck Bertukl, has- decided to quit
work at the People's Coal company, Ox
ford colliery, and become a good union
man. I advise nnd trust that you will
treat him In a friendly manner as long
us ho behaves himself accordingly.
Yours truly,
T. 1). Nichols.
Seal of District No. 1.
Hearty laughter followed the reading
of the last part of the letter.
Wanted Them Discharged,
James Conlon, a mine foreman for the
Delaware and Hudson company at
Plains, and president of the Plains
township school board testified that In
June a committee of the United Mine
Workers demanded tho discharge, or
more exactly protested against the re
employment of Miss MoKay, Miss Win
tersteln and Charles Brandt, each of
whom had a relative working in or
about the mines. The committee ap
peared openly at the meeting at which
the teiichers were being chosen for tho
ensuing year and put forward their de
mand. There was no question as to
their competency or qualifications, tho
miners said,
Mr, Darrow sought to excuse the
committee's conduct on the ground that
they were acting, not with uny animus
towards these school teachers, hut for
the general good of the schools, it being
disadvantageous to havo, the teachers
disliked by the pupils.
"Isn't It advantageous that the teach
ers are liked by the pupils?" Mr, Dar
row asked.
"Yes," the witness answered, "and
these teachers were the best liked of
uny lu the schools,"
President Mitchell whispered some
thing to Mr, Darrow and tho latter pro
ceeded to nsk questions with a view of
emphasizing the fact that the commit
tee did not nsk the board to dlschurge
the teachers, but to not re-employ
them.
Frank .McCarthy was principal of the
Miners' Mills schools for six years, told
of being refused re-employment by tho
school board last August. He alleged
It was because his brother Is a mlno
foremuit. One of the directors told him
it was because he had voted wrong for
the office of 'squire ot the spring elec
tion. His father's and brother's names
were printed on a banner containing a
list of "scabs" uud admonitions to tho
people to not send their children to
school to relatives ot "scabs."
Miss Barett, who taught for seven
years and whose brother continued to
work in tho mines was the only other
teacher not reemployed. She Is now
working as a clerk In a dry goods storo
in another city,
Tho banner above inscribed was ex
hibited by Daniel Powell, of Miners'
Mills, who took it down from where it
was suspended above the road where
Plains and Miners' Mills meet. Attor
neys Darrow, Warren, Lennhan and
Wolverton held the banner outctretched
that the commissioners might read it.
It was twelve feet long and five feet
wide.
Christ McDermott, of Plttston, a fire
boss for the Pennsylvania Coal com
pany, had to have police guard over his
house every night for a week; that
Murphy & Joyce, storekeepers, refused
to sell him goods, and that the woman
who sold him milk cut him off because
she received an anonymous letter noti
fying her that if she didn't stop selling
him milk she would find her cow miss
ing some morning. Tho ice man and
a huckster also refused to deal with
him. -
W. K. Gardner, a welghmaster for the
Pennsylvania company told of frequent
and serious annoyances to which he was
subjected during the strike, because he
would, not give up Ills job. He was
held up by mobs, stoned, threatened,
boycotted and hung In effigy. Daniel
Davis, a butcher, refused to sell lilm
meat.
The witness said he never belonged to
a labor union since the time the union
elected a full county ticket In Luzerne.
He was sorry he ever voted the tlckQt.
The sheriff, he said, was a defaulter.
David Dick, of Old Forge, who refus
ed to quit work for the Pennsylvania
Coal company, testified that one night
ho was sitting on his porch when lie
was fired aL five times from ambush.
One bullet went through his hat. He
had previously been threatened by
strikers.
Crippled Engineer.
Joseph 'WJebb, un old and crippled
fan-engineer, testified to having been
beaten, knocked down and cut on the
hand by a mob of fifty, armed with re
volvers, knives, clubs, whips nnd cnt-o'-nlne
tails. lie did not go to work
ufter this.
William Booz, of Plttston, refused to
quit Ills job as blucksmlth for the
Pennsylvania company. Ho wus
threatened several times by strikers.
At 'I o'clock one morning the house of
his father-in-law, in which he, tho
witness lived, was dynamited. He
judged that a stick of dynamite was
hung on tho door knob. The door was
splintered, windows smashed, and fur
niture, dishes, pictures and the like
wrepked,
Mike Hiidrcs, of Plains, was stoned
and called vile names, William Mokes,
of Port Blunchard, was mobbed and his
house attacked by a crowd of twenty
one men, Charles Cuttle, of Avoca,
had the usual experiences,
James Mitchell, who was a miner be
fore the strike, und who worked as a
blacksmith's helper and track repairer
after the strike commenced, told of
being put out of tho Urowntown (Pitts
ton) branch of the Ancient Order of
Hibernians. Tho vote was unanimous,
The commission remained In session
until 5 o'clock and udjourned to meot
at l o'clock this morning. An effort
will be made to finish with the non
union men today,
Tho commission will decide today
whether or not It will continue Its ses
sions Into next week or adjourn today
to meet again in Philadelphia, Jun. 6,
11103. Judge Gray said that when the
commlssionadjourus Its sessions here It
will probably not return, at least, not
until the operators' side has been fin
ished with.
Appended is a summary of the sta-
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tistles of the Pennsylvania Coal com
pany filed with the commission yester
day, by Major Warren:
The statements submitted to the com
mission by the Pennsylvania Coat com
pany show, in detail, tho number of col
lieries, the production, the shipments, tho
dockage, tho earnings ot the contract
miners and all other classes of labor, tho
time worked by breakers and employes,
tho thno lost from various causes, tho
character of the veins worked and in gen
eral everything of tho actual conditions
of production of coal which it has been
possible for the company to accurately
show for tho year April 1, 1!K)I, to March
SI, 1P02. Following are the principal facts:
Total number of breakers 10
Total number miners' tons pro-
duced 1,013,21(1
Total tons prepared coal pro
duced 1,440,8ft::
Total tons pea caul produced 32t,180
Total tons of prepared and pea
coal produced l,76i;,0S'J
Average number of pounds of pre
pared coal produced per miners
ton
Average number of pounds ot' pre
pared and pea coal produced pur
miners' ton
Percentage of dockage
MINERS.
The total number of contract
minors was
Tho average annual earnings per
contract wus $1,267.4!)
(On account of the uncertainty of tho
best Information which It 1ms been pos
sible to obtain as to tho number of mlneni
or laborers In each contract, tho avcrago
earnings of each minor or laborer has noc
been stated).
Tho ucoiiruey of the statements refer
ring to earning of onn tract minors bus
been certified to by James Murkwlrk,
chartered accountant, representing tins
minors.
COMPANY MEN.
Av'ago Av'rro
rate earning!)
pur day. per year.
Enlneers, machinists, car.
neuters, blacksmiths,
eto 52.12
Firemen, pumpmi'ii, sta
blemen, trackman, tlm-
hormen, eto .....; 1.S0
Dumpers, footmen, head
men, manors, loaders,
eto US
Drivers, plate or gato-
men, watchmen, etc l.W
Door boys, slato pickers 00
Laborers and varldus
other classes l.i3
Avcrago earnings per year of men
and boys U2.1'J
Average breaker starts ,.... -i'-'.t
Avcrago hours worked per day, based
on total .starts
Number of suspensions duo to action
of employes ,.- ,
Number of suspensions duo to machinery
Numboi' of suspensions due to mines
being flooded ,., -S
Stutunicnt concerning tho houses owned
by tho company, as follows:
Number of company houses,,, ,,, -S
Average rental per month 16.U07
Average number of rooms ,.'.. 7.2.1
The statements also show uncollected
rent auuHiutlng l $2,Ulo.0S as duo from
employes Novcmbar 1, tho annual rental
of tho property belhe il.130. '
Tlioy also show the name and iminber
of employes who are owners of' real es
tate, total number being 1'8'J, or over 21.9
per cent of the aggregate.
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NEWS THAT WILL SAVE YOU
MONEY.
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Always Busy, 114 and 110 Wyom-
ing avenue, will be open evenings
until after Christmas.
Fresh. Imported Cigars.
BocI & '"i Eden, Upman, Cabana,
Henry Clay and Curolluus, light shade
received today at E. G. Coursen's.
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