The sun., 1902-11-21
mans house when his wife lay In the no use


| murder Of the unborn; that when the fire.
men and pump runners deserted their
posts it meant destruction OF the coal
property.
| II want TO read you something you wrote
| in your cooler moments, when you were not
employed by the union" said Mr.. Wolver-
ton. He read at length an arraignment OF
| the union for believing IL could force wages
| up beyond the limit. showing that the mine
workers now enjoy their conditions because
| society had determined that coal is useful
| but il the price Of coal was forced upward
| then society might determine to use soft
| coal He went on TO tell in his article the
| discrimination Of union men against non
union workers in refusing TO supply cars
| and Of working with them, and said the BOYS
| who went on strike after one had been dis
| charged were lauded as heroes and held up
| as types of the best manhood. Instance
| after instance Of union discrimination in and
| out of the mines against the merchants and
| others and Of boycott cases were read from
| Mr.. Robers's book. Those showed that
| boycott and violence were the chief weapons
| of the union men, particularly Of the for
eigners.
ANGLo-sAXo>s KNOW HOW TO SLUG.
One sentence was. "Anglo-Saxons know
| how 10 slug scab, but the foreigners know
how TO shoot a scab.'
with such an element forming a large
| percentage Of the mining population there
will be- i, is feared, III the event of "a struggle.
| riot and blood.hed," ." was another sentence,
DR. Roberts said about As per cent. of the
population of the coal fields are slavs.
"Now." said Mr.. Wolverton, would YOU
countenance an organization that is gov
| erned by these menf
1T is not governed by these" said DR..
Roberts.
Other articles were read giving many
| Instances of violence. He denounced these
| in unmeasured terms at length. He also
| went on TO denouncc IN the same article the
| fort to destroy the mines by calling out
| the steam men and he then admitted
| on the witness stand-'I do believe the call
ing ont Of the engineers was a mistake"
| Mr.. Roberts was so worked up by this
| arragnment that he followed il by a speech
| in which he pleaded for the mine workers.
| He then appealed to the commission asking e
| If il was relevant to admit II. Chairman
| Gray held that il was and said that the
| attorney for the mine workers was not
| objecting.
Mr. Wolverton showed part in cross
| examination and part in statement, that
| there were as good. and better, school facili
| ties in the coal region as in other parts
| of the State. In concluding his cross-ex-
| animation MIR. Wolverton said
you have written a very interesting
book and We thank you for it..
Attorney Everett Warren. of the Erie
company took up the crosse Examination
| to show that the mine inspector is appointed
mended by a board formed of three miners
| and two mining engineers. This was TO
show that the implication contained in
| Mr.. MtchelPs testimony that the lnspec-
tors favored the operators was unfounded.
| Mr.. Warren then went on to show that
many of the accidents in the mines are due
| to carelessness. a. previously covered in
| the Rev, Mr.. Roberts's testimony.
| The witness said the outrages were perpe =
| trated by de>peradoes who were not mem
bers Of the union. The witness stood by
his statement that newspaper reports OF
outrages in the coal fields were exaggerated,
The witness went on to ask If capital as
| well as labor was not responsible for the
outrages. When you have a hungry man
| he il a dangerous being, and he had seen
men in the coal fields weep for the want of
Good and children cold for the want Of
clothing
mo such hunger has ever been known
In the United States as has existed during
this STRIKE" he said
Several attorneys asked questions OF
Mr.. Roberts lust before adjournment for
luncheon relative TO details of his testi-
mony. A number of these questions re-
lated to- the employment of children about
the mines. The witness said he never
sought to prosecute offenders against the
statutes He said IL he had done il the
costs would undoubtedly have been placed
upon him.
MINERS CAUSE ACCIDENTS.
After luncheon Mr. Wilcox read more
| extracts from DIR. Roberts's book. Ia one
of these quotations 1t was set forth that
the hurry Of the miners to leave the mines
was one of the most prolific sources OF ac-
cidents The miner in cases where rock
was to be blasted. the book said, drills a
| hole and prepares the charge. Then he goes
! home and leaves the firing of the charge
| to the laborer.
Another article written bv the witness
rafarral n a la of h. NINA vnykprs
in whi Ch there We're children under IL
years of age. DR.. Roberts wrote that the
coal companies required from parents that
their children should be more than IL
years old and that the number of children
| under ~ in the parade represented the
number of perjurers there were among
the parents.
In response TO question by Commissioner
Parker the witness said that the pay of
about so per cent. of the children employed
about the mines was necessary for the sup
port of families.
DR.. Roberts was then Withdrawn for the
time being and the three physicians called
to the stand.
HEALTH OF THE MINERS
They were DR.. John O'Malley of Scran-
ton, Dr. Frank p. Lenahan of Wilkes Barre
and DR.. r. II. Gibbons Of Scranton. DR..
OMalley said that he had practised in a
mining community for nineteen years.
were miners asthma, catarrh. consump-
ton, rheumatism and unnatural condition
of the blood. He had known Of a good
many cases of typhoid fever and pneu-
monia among them, Miners asthma.
which was frequently met WITH was due
to the inhalation of powder smoke, coal
dust and vitiated air. The mucous MEM
brane Of the lungs became saturated with
coal dust that acted as an irritant and
caused muscular contraction of the lungs.
The attacks at times seemed very severe
Post mortems showed that the lungs be-
come as black as anthracite coal and after
men leave the mines they cough up coal
dust from their lungs for years. The fatality
of the disease is small. but this disease
| superinduces others far more dangerous.
Rheumatism is common among the miners
due to the fact that they so often expose
themselves and are compelled to work
In water Whooping cough may have
the form Of true asthma, the witness said,
in answer to a question when cross-eX-
amined by James II. Torrey of the Della
ware and Hudson Company, Mr.. Torrey
wanted to know If asthma had not the effect
Of warding of consumption. DIR. OMalley
denied this.
Mr.. Torrey attacked the statements
that the miners are compelled to breathe
vitiated air, saying that the air currents
provided by the fans prevented this, but
the doctor stood by his first statement.
Dr. Lcnahan of Wilkes Barre. connected
with two hospitals there, examined by
John II. Shea corroborated DR.. OMalley
with regard to the diseases Of miners and
he cases Of asthma among them. An9mia
CAUSES The miner to have less resistance