The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-20
METHODS OF THE STRIKERS
Attempts Made to Dynamlfe Residences.
Two Men Tell of Expulsion from Secret Order Because They 1s- mained at Work in the
 Mines.

Scranton. Pa, Dec. Ds-cson-uuton msns some of their relatives. and othsrs ta the number of thirty, appeared before <hA Anthracite Coal Strike Commission todsE and told stories of alleged boycottz h. Limitations. dynamiting and violence Aa various forms during the late stx1ses Each witness called was . suftsess - one form or another st the hannA 1hak alleged. of union men
 Four witnesses said attempts were maAt to blow up their housen; one hoSss vAa badly damaged, macy of ths w1nszsns were threatened win bodily hanzns sex~ eral were beaten. One was slnet n kaA ieg. every one stoned. bovcoefsa e hsns- cd in eftigy. Frank kccazss, snze1 tsashsr. testined te Asxsns lost izas pe- sition because his fatnaS dfd not sHz1uA
 Thomas H. Dulan vas rsonAstsa c give up his msnabsasn1D in . cAxnu1Ae temperance society bscanss hs rennAAssa on duty doing repair work and acting ss watehrnan He wspt whaas en tho v1s- ness stand as he told of how thay ordereA him to leave Efs was very active tn the society and drilled many of thoss whe have grown to manAeod in tho nszs1<Axv branch of shs sossetg.
 Stoned by the strikses.
 He saAd he had been stoned and ok1sar- wise ill-treaAed, and added that good clubbing would not have hurt hal3 as much as the action of the soetety la throwing him out of the order. The boys he had drilled in the society stoned him on the highway and when hs displayed road
 c. S. Daerow. for the snsnsrs. asked tha. witness if he thought the union taught them that. to which the witness replied that he as captain of the military con- pany of the society had taught the boys the military tactics which they resortsd to when he fiourished his pistol.
 Chairman Gray asked the witness # he remained at work so that the pumpa could be kept in good repair to keep the mines from being destroyed He said he did. Mr. Darrow asked him how long he worked and examined him in sucb . way on this subject as to draw out the remark from Chairman Gray that men will work fifteen hours or more to help save a neighbours burning house.
 James Mitchell testlfed he was expaal-. ed from the Hiberntans Society. He saAh he worked after the strike as . rapaks man.
 Glad He is Out of It.
 He had bean a member of the socaskx twenty-six or twenty-eisht years and at a meeting one night during the stzihA khA question of his unfaisness came up amA the members present unanimously woend to expel him. He had been paying dnas all these years as Q member In good standing and added that he was new glad he was out of IL
 A non-union man who subssQnenfsv a,zst work produced c latter ws4t1en bv R3Aste dent T. D. Nichols of Dastrict Ma 1 h which hs stated that the witness had quit work and was good union man azaa that all union men shoafd treat hhn sa n friendly manner "so long as he pshaved mmseR aecoFdingly.S
 John Conltn. e uknN oass and upnxsAant of the school board of Plains, testiAnd that committee of a local union called on him and asked that sehoca taanAars whose relatives were wording in fna mines be not reapDoinAed as tsaahssw
 The commission win meet a4 . oAeRoes< tomorrow morning and adjourn at HslS for the holidays. Most of the oeSnrnsa- noners win immediately lesvs for ehsir homes