Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-19
FIGURES Will NOT LIE.
A Statistical is Questioned by the
Congressional COMMITTEES hives
tigating the Reading Strike.
He Prevps the Rssd H,ls Made Big
Prsfi' With tss Capital Invested.
Unfair 10 Employees.
The Strikers Hsvs Bon Orde yea Back TO
Work on the Road, P-ndt1nz ArbI
trRtion-Some siip ers r. fuse.
MINERS IN A STARVING CoNIDITIoN.

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restitution among the families OF tn
miners that is being develo?eds here i
terrible and such that it csnL lot longe
be hidden One family named Togel ws
found to have ac:usllv been without foo
two days and the children were 10 wes
from fasting that when relief came. it ha
to be s,1sringly given 20 sVoida l in
them. There were nine n tn (ltAmill
Another family of six named BGTDt. 8 va
IN the same state and one named Jahnsol
was almost as bad. These are bnt in
stances that have many parallels It hos
been established that most of the con-
trihutions intended for the miners have
been absorbed BIZ the railrosders who
hsve heen living IL clover while their
allies starve.
ORDERED TO WORK.
PoTTsvILLE, Pa, Feb I3.-Msster
Workman Lewis arrived hrre from Poll
sdelphia last evening bringing copies of
correspondence between himself and
President Corbin locking to resumption
OF all the companies mines. Lewis in
medistely went into consultation with
members Of the int committee with thu
result that his action wss ratified aud 60
address wBs at once issued directing the
employees of the Philsds lphis and Reading
Coal and Iron Company to resume work
next Monday morning UPON agreement of
tue company to arbitra'e the difference
after the men have resumed.
REPUDTATKD THE ORDER.
MOUNT CARMEL, Pa, Feb. ls.-The
Reading miners of tbis district, In mass
meeting to-day, repudiated the action Of
Masterworkmen Lewis and resolved not
TO return to work until notified to do so
oy joint demand Of the committee.
sTATIsTIcIAN CALLED.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, F b 1S-At the
invest CATION Of the Reading striky, now
unde' way before the Co gressionsl COM
mite appointed for that purpose, John
Norris, one of the editors of the Phila-
del his Record, who had been s.stisEiciin
of the Pacific Railroad Investigating CON-
Rittee was cslIed. The witness quoted
f zures to show coal cOuli be bJugGt
st 2, TT R chmond for 95 cents less ron
If wanted for shipment 70 Boston or NV
York than was demanded II the very same
coal wss intended for P lilsdelphis trade
Morris said last year the Rssding R5il
ROAD Company had earned 10 per cent. en-
the COST of the road and was one Of the
most profitable roads in the c0un ~. It's
losses came from the necessity Of paving
interest on its enormous debt
which was the result of q p1lics
of combining the business OF
a carrier with tnat CT miner, Ia vii
ness went into long statement Of facts
to show that The Reading Railroad Comps-
ny fIiled and refused TO do its duty under
the law as common carrier. II hal
paid GEt drawbacks II had been inves-
tigafed by the legislature and cOnstiTu-
tioual amendment adopted to stop l..
discrimination snd the abuses OF its
charter. He SSH il had
com ained with The Penusy wants
rallfHsd gy 4 wss noV giving shst CON-
psuy's Hne u ire Jai ftgiYB 600 600 loi's
year uoder an sgretinent to prevent
comp=iitiun. lie helityed from what De
had GeaTd that the L siding n,d cgrsed &C
Increase sais EliuLmeut 10 l eco 00U toCs
during the pressat yeLr- A.tnougl n
Pennsylvspis line was butt wiCl the
promise aud expectation Jhst compell-
ton would decrease
TIKI PRICE OF COAL,
prices had been kept up Is usulI ard NJ
good to the people hsd resulted. NorIir
vOlumiUuGs Il .urt 20 show thas he X AL
log Railroad and Reading Coal ana Icon
Company was trxing the people TO mske
small part OF me great clal Il Id owned
by it pay interest on money extrag-
sgantly p4id TOR l., AMI oil
it's losses addition. Witness SAID
he had thoroughly ipvesrigat, d the state
mept m.do by Mr. Groin that the Read
i'm NJ
81 600 600 tors Of coal from 1876 TO 1888
It : loss OF ever Sl2 600 Geo, having paid
$57 600 90 to miaers, aud r. ceiVr d .S44,
So, 600 TOR their output Tn wiLuers
quo, ed figures by years from 1876 TO 1888,
and said that the Proceeds for tn.r peri %
1ad be. n az sh WI by the Compsny'5 own
books $50 .624 900 and this company had
fe,lly receiv S29, 900 090. more than il
aad paid out
H. T. Bennett, one Of the leading
Knights q Lab T, testified TO facts Ia
connection win the strike. In repy TO
questions as to the right OF labor TO die
tate terms to capital, witness said that,
resembling providence in creating prop
erty, labor has
RIGHT TO ooNTRo'.
and manage it Witness cnArged the
company with bad fsi.h and with neglect
ing TO send kilograms OF The committee to
leaders throughout the mining regions
after decision had be. n greed TO, order
leg the men back TO work, and said that
ON account II This act OF bad faitn The
miners we're not informed Of the order
and did not return to work. FaI
this reason the strike was ordered
on again. witDesA then proceeded
20 g We his version OF the interview be-
tween LIE and SEsigard he was not
present himself, bus when be csme out
Lee told BIN that Heigsrd had st empted
70 brine bin aud i.isiog to DO this bad
discharged him. At the CONCLUSION of
this witness testimony the committee
sGi jurned to meet In Pottsville Monday.
New York Coffee Market,