The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1902-12-10

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Scranton, Dec 6-At the session
of the strike commission today,
Andrew Mattey, a Slovenian, who
was employed by Coke Bros & Co
was the first Witness, He was the
lpresiaent of hiss local union, and
kas idd by the company, he said,
that if he quft II The onion be would
| be .giEe;scsszjeb. He refused,
3 Sad lstsfs ma sass-~g . Rsaa such bad
fE~6rK That he gave up his Sob. He
said he was the means of bringing
IA Slavonian families to this coun-
try at the instance of the breaker
boss at the Coke mines. They were
promised 81 10 per day, but re-
ceixea but 65 to eantsua q axzu,.r,<
When The witness was asked by
Mr. Darrow how many times he
had ssen the Snise4 inspector in the
@nipeay GoFahas i6ne Nataon asked
the purpose of the question. Mr.
Darrow said, that as a rule, the
mine inspectpr u Eaceon1panied by
the hinaofeish and ! therefore
mineTeis afraid to make complaint
in the presence of his boss. Mr.
Mitchell maintained that inspect
sors should be pna oodm pahied, and
their attention inots diverted. t5from
bad places in the mines.
John G Strenix. an Eng gfishman,
followed Mattey. He said he av-
eraged about $3ooAYear, and had
worked 10 -the-niass fer 80 years.
Ss<.Jok6SFarari, an Austrian, for
merly employed by the Coke COM
Ipsgy gaid.he Waa ,.qaql4 able to save
s. '$BJ Fl ID Tie last ss7en Years.
jackson Anshack, was an. in.
tefesting Witness. He said he re-
csssm 81 5Eforeaatay of -f2 hours
and his assistant SH26. On every
other Sunday, when he and his
bis sssk ktanI shifted from day to
hight work, they were compelled to
Horks24. hours: ST faigh4swi thyeF reg
lief. This statement caused a buzz
throug ghout theseourb room, and ev-
commissjeneBs straightenedsSup and
become more interested. in aps-
Wer to a question put by the. COM
he said ne was off one day
every two aWeeks thas working six
days one week and eight days the
next. -
Suppose you should fall asleep
Wien yoUweTe On tf1e@Iong shift
Of "a hours, what would happen2"
asked MrRarroWs
"Well," he repaied eff I slept |
long enough. theIans would stop
would accumu1ate and if any ex-
plosion tookplacs some men night
be killed.
Rev James V Hussie, was the
next witness. Drinking among the
miners, he said was at a minimum
during tie strike. When asked to
explain the general conditions as
heafound them, Fa1hers HassieI
said that he had lived in the coal
regions practically all his life.
"The conditions in that region
be said, "are deplorable.o The
are barely able to ex-
ist. I cay this without any color
ing, knoWingsthatI am under oath.
I realizsIhatsWhat;I say isgoing to
the Americanspeople and I waatst
to talk cautiously. have been in
their homes. They are not homes, |
but merely a habitation, resting
place. They are a frugal, ,fconsery-
atfye. reasonab1e and God-fearing
people: We have eight Catholic
IN Hazelton, and they are
crowded every Sunday with wor-
shippers and this no doubt true of
the. churches whose faith is opposed
10 OURS,
Father Hussie said that this was
The condition before the strike,
ana na-that-daring heir-saspeneiea
The mineworkers aud their families
vereimore pinched and that they
barely existed. .-t.Families cannot
oe kept together" be said, "The
boys are sent into the mines all
most as soonsas they are able to
todd le- about, and the girls are sent
10 the mills in the small towns in
he vicinity, sor drift to9'large cities.
BE related instances of poverty
md said it took one man six years.
10 pay off q funeral debt of $500.
La reply to further Questioning
Father Hussie said that be had ,ex-
amined SO or So n0fneworkets and
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