The evening world., 1902-11-17
Il Am Willing to Leave 1t
All to God" Is His Sharp
Retort to a Question
from MacVeash.
TELLS OF HANNA'S ACTS.
Mine President Admits That
Politics Had a Great Deal to
Do With the Settlement of the
Big Anthracite Strike OF 1900.

President Mitchell resumed the stand to-
day Wayne MacVeagh began his exami-
nation by reading from ne yspaper clip
pings OF the methods OF a labor organi-
zation known as the Operative Plaster
crs' Association of New York. against
the employers.
y YOU approve or do you heartily
dlsaDprove of these methods" Mr.. Mac
Veagh asked.
II should say that my union has no
such rules" was Mr.. Mitchell's re-
Spouse.
Mr.. MacVeagh repeated his question
and Mr.. Mitchell said: 81 can only say
that in the absence of knowledge as to
the causes which made them adopt such
resolutions l am not competent TO pass
upon the fairness or unfairness of them.
On the surface and with the informa-
ton you convey to me l should say
they are unfair"
Mr.. MaceVagh reverted to the subject
Of placing the responsibility for the in
creased price OF coal and inquired:
do you san feel Mt liberty to say
that 1t is zone of your business What
dullllOLdl COSl lic pNpliN WIZ hofS ~
pay for their coal II that additional cost
is the immediate result OF your de-
mands?"
Cannot Control Coal Prices.
az have not said at any time It was
none of our business" replied MT
Mitchell. 81 have stated that 1t was
beyond our control. That we have alb
solutely nothing to do with the selling
price of coal"
'Mr. Mitchell, do you think you have
the right to ask for an Increase in
wages which. II granted. would Increase
the cost of living to hundreds of thou
sands of the poor?"
The miners representative replied that
there are FIVE hundred thousand persons
in-the anthracite fields who are starv-
ing. and It Is their fundamental right to
ask for living wages in return for their
labor.
Replying to questions by Mr.. Mac
Veaph on the right of private parties to
nrotect their property, Mr.. Mitchell said
that the provision in the miners' con-
stitution against pickets grew out OF
the Homestead strike, when a number
of private detectives were employed as
guards, most Oh IS 90 h"N
been recruited from the slums OF Phila-
delphla and other large cities. Mr..
Mitchell insisted that the city, county
and state authorities were competent
to handle the matter.
Raising MS voice to a & pitch and
speaking with great fervor, Mr.. Mac
Neagh asked: Don't you know as well
as you know your name Is John
of this city, of this county, and OF this
State, this whole region has been
treated to a y%eritable foretaste Of hell?"
Mr.. Mitchell calmly replied: II don
know anything of the kind"
well, you will before we are through
with you,' was Mr.. MacVeaSh's retort.
CommIssIOner Takes a Hand.
Commissioner Watkins here took a
hand in the examination and 1t was
brought out that none Of the pickets
EMPLOYED by the companies represented
nv MI. MacVeagh had been recruited
outside Of the community.
Mr.. MacVeagh then read Gov. Stones
proclamation calling OF the troops, In
reign of terror in the region. Mr.. Nit
chell denied the correctness of the Gov
ernor's assertions.
up. and in, reply to a query as to
whether he had a right 10 limit a mans
labor to eight hour a day Mr.. Mitchell
I'VE favor a miximum of eight
hours" and a moment later in answer
to n similar question, said: we will &C
cept whatever award. the. Commission
dence over the laws OF the union"
Then Mr.. MacVeagh said Abraham
LINCOLN was splitting, rails and he didn't
demand 1t not only for the men in the
mines, u for all the men above ground
as well. He was doing infinitely harder
work thar nine-tenths of our men en-
DInxyal In the mlnag nhOVn ground. RO
was Garfield when he was a boy trudg-
ing along the path OF the canal and so
was Mckinley In his early IRE In only
three victims Of the spirit OF anarchy
which is the curge OF this country to-day
and the My serious ta , o TTrse aniicsinS X"
word anarchy" as employed by Mr..
Maoveagh, and with considerable spirit
promptly otb rd .nS%1relSSii rTFf Il are Sn tSSS are
y certainly not said Mr.. Mac
yeagh. TRADE unions are o admir-
able. but q make n demand upon us
employ from working moro than eight
hours. That strikes us as perfectly In
admissible
Nitcheil entered into a detailed descrip-
ton OF the workings OF the union.
Politics Helped the Miners.
Mr.. Mitchell. upon the request OF
the union under pay had contributed 81
ner cent. per month of their salRries for
the benefit OF the striking miners. The
fact was brought out that Mr.. Mitchell
had had telephone conferences with Sen
ator Hanna Just previously to the set
Element OF the strike of 1900.
"Of course that was the year In which
Mr. Bryan was again a candidate for
the Presidency" said Mr.. MacVeagh.
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