The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-10

told, under examination. of how IL
eNlcuon was carried on. The wife wa
SICK and her 100-year-Old mother va
blind and unable to walk The dav 81
which they were thrown out wa
rainy. He took them as best he couIH
TO Hazleton, seven miles away. an
placed them in a cold. damp. emptF
house. This was last month. when I'd
atmosphere on. the Hazleton nountaf
was quite cold His wife became worse
Medical aid was kindly furnished FIRE
Dy q HazieJon doctor, but it did nc
help her much.
We were greatly worried because
our having been turned out of To
house and one night" he said betwea
sObs. she died"
She died" said Judge Gray. VIII
was pacing to and fro across the roOrt
as he quickly turned when ne hear
the mans last words.
Yes. sir, she died and I buried ne
yesterday"
All the commissioners and many 4
those in the court room were muck al
rected by the old miners story tn
witness went on 10 say that he did
not know whether the centenarfan wa
alive today or not. She was In bad con
dluon owing TO her daughters dealt
when he left the house last night.
No one cared to cross examine. and
Judge Gray said:
That is all, Mr. Cen, and that
enough"
Conditions at the Mines.
Two more witnesses told of how the,
were refused work by the AEarkle com
pany. and then J B Gallagher, ma
tiOnal board member of the Unite
Mine Workers of America for the Ha
zIeton district, took the stand and told
OF conditions as he found them at TIA
mines OF the Markle company. Tht
air IN some Of the gangWays. he said
was so bad that the miners lampf
would not burn. IF he had a drill hold
started and the lamp went out n
would continue work in the dark Gn
til his condition became so weakened
by the air that he had TO 90 out. &
far as he could remember. not one mari
who was on any Of the Markle griev
ance committees is now working fof
that company
Gallagher explained the troubles a
the Markle mines after the recent striISe|
was over, when the men refused I'd.
so to work because John 1IarzIa ina
posed certain conditions
National Board Member GaIlayhed
resumed the witness stand at the aft
ernoon session and explained the POW
der question as best he could. concIud
ing that part of his testimony by saw
ing that the miners employed BY theI
Markle company do not get the 10 perI
cent increase because of the peculiar!
way the company has OF figuring thel
increase IN wages agreed upon at thd
end Of the 1900 strike The witness pre-
scented. several of his own wage state
ments, which showed that sOmethfnai
had been deducted for priest When!
asked what this meant, he said he did
not know 1t was taken of his earn
lnSS ever since he went into the mines
and ne simply dismissed it because hel
did not object to the assessments.
An 1S-year-oId Hungarian slatsI
picker, employed by the MarkIes. said
that before the strike he received ISL
cents and now ne received only % eentsl
day. The company never notified
him of the reduction, and he still doesl
the same work He said the breaker
boss. who stands over the pickers.
often dubbed him. kicked him and
sWOre at him for not picking slatel
faster.
No Pity For the Widow.
Mrs. Kate Burns Of Jeddo was then
called 10 the stand and tod story OF
now she and her two boys worked thir-
teen years TO pay off an accumulated
house rent and coal bill due to the Markle
company She was examined BY LAWYER
DarrOW. and in answer 10 his questions
said her husband was an engineer INSIDE
the MarSle mines. The husband was
killed underground. leaving her with four
cRltdren, me Oldest OF whom was boy
OF years The company never offered
her a penny. but the employees gave her
about $50 10 0efray the funeral expenses
After her husband had been killed she
moved from her fOur-rOOm house into one
containing only two rooms. one room
above the other. and for the next six
years she struggled as best she could
TO get along She took IN WASHING
scrubbed for the neighbors and once in =
while she was given the cleaning OF the
offices OF the Markle company. During
these SIX years, she said. she kent her
children at school, and when the eldest
child was Il years old she sent him to
the mines TO help earn the daily bread.
At the end of the first month"; the lao
brought nome his wage statement, show
ing that the mother owed 1895 sor back
rent
Boys Wages Taken.
The boys wages for the month lad been
taken OFF the bill, and he cau4e home
empty-handed- She submitted to tlis, and
IN IN the course or time her next bly, was
Old enough TO help earn a living, AN q he
too. was sent TO the cOlliery. Liz tbs
older brother, the second boy recs.r.,d
no pay, ms earnings being deducted for
rent The tears of the mother on the
witness stand were by this time WeIlins
Up. ana when she added that the money
she earned for cleaning the Markle offices
was never given her, but was kept by the
company for rent the commissioners
looked at one another in surprise. She
said it took the three of them thirteen
years TO make up the debt the mothers
earnings from ne1ghbOTs being the prln-
cipal contribution toward the maintenance
OF the family. The debt was cleared last
August During the six years from the
time her husband was killed until the
time when the first boy went to work the
never asked her for rent.
This concluded the mine workers case
against 6 B. Markle & Co, except that
Mr.. barrow read and had placed upon
the records OF the commission John Mar
aSle's statement TO President Roosevelt al
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