The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-19
N0N-UNI0N MEN
ON THE STAND
Attempt to Connect Strikers
With Acts of Violence.
ONE MAN HAD BEEN SHOT AT
STATEMENT OF LACKAWANNA
COMPANY PRESENTED.

Scranton, Pa. Dec. 1S-The attor-
neys for the non-union men resumed
the calling of witnesses today before
the coal strike commission to show
that violence was committed during the
progress of the strike. AS soon as the
hearing opened at 10 o'clock the wage
statements of the Delaware I.acha-
wanna & Western and Philadelphia q
Reading Coal & Iron company were
filed with the commission
The first witness called said a mem
Der of the miners union threatened to
kill him if ne did rot stop working. and
finally did shoot at him. The offender
was sent TO prison
The next three witnesses were John
Hoffman, his son, both of whom were
working at the Upper Lehigh colliery,
assisting in putting in a new boiler.
and the sons wife. They told how a
crowd of strikers came at midnight TO
harm the son, who fed four miles to
another town, and how the crowd
smashed the furniture and attempted
to burn the house.
The next witness related the story of
himself and wife being hung in effigy
in the streets of Nanticoke the effigy
of the wife being of a character most
offensive.
Mrs. Kate Mcnamara of Parsons,
the mother of four small children.
whose husband was in the mines and
could not come home for fear of bodily
harm, testified that her home was de-
stroyed by fire at night and she and
her children were rescued with diff
Guilty.
Counsel for the miners called the
commissions attention to the fact that
the fire had not been connected with
strikers.
Chairman Gray said that while the
evidence did not directly connect the
strikers with the fire the inference was
that the fire was most probably of in
cendiary origin. Other witnesses were
called to prove that they were boycott
ted and otherwise inundated. Coun-
sci for the miners frequently objected
to unsupported testimony being pre-
sented
John DOran. manager of the Wilkes
barre lace mills, testified that because
he would not discharge two girls who
had relatives working in the mines the
LOO employees went on strike and
stayed out eight weeks until the mat
ter was fixed up.
Another witness said he was a mem
Der of the union, and while under a
physicians care during the street car.
strike here last year he was compelled
TO ride on car. His discharge was
asked for by the union, but the mine
superintendent refused. The union men
made his occupation so unpleasant for
him in the mines that he had to quit.
He left the union and when the strike
came on refused to leave his work
He moved from one place to another
and finally located at PittstOn- At
that place the man who owned the
house, who was a union miner, ordered
him out and he had to leave.
These witnesses and others that were
called testified that their wives were
insulted on the streets that their chill
dren were beaten by other children and
could not be safely sent to school. that
local unions requested storekeeperS not
to sell goods to any one related to a
man working in the mines, that their
houses were stoned, that they were
stoned. shot at and hanged in effigy,
and that life was generally made mis-
er2bI for them and their families
Most of the witnesses connected strfk-
ers with the offenses alleged.