The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-23
STRIKE CRIMES OF OCTOBER.
AGAINST PERSON, 1873; PROPERTY,
20; THE STATE, 20.
summary Made Up From the News DE.
spatches Indicates That Violence Re-
mains the Ready Weapon Of the Trades
Union striker All Over the nited States

SUMMARY Wdur W TTOUt ubt NCWS ut~
spatches Indicates That Violence Re.
mains the Ready Weapon Of the Trades
Union striker All q, er the United states
The statements of John Mitchell before
the anthracite strike commission convey
the impression that violence during the
coal strike has been desultory and really
OF little consequence. The following ac-
count Of labor depredations. which has been
condensed from newspaper descriptions Of
the out RACES as they have occurred indicates
that the conditions were not 30 mild as
MIR. Mitchell intimates, and that violence
is characteristic OF members OF other unions
than the United Mine Workers is shown by
the accounts OF disturbances in different
parts of the United States. The proper
names in many cases nave doubtless been
distorted in transmittal over the telegraph
and through the composing room.
In peaceabe New England but one Incl
dent L. chronicled. At Rutland, Vt, iron
works strikers boycott store that refuses
to stop selling goods to officers OF the COM
pany and have torn down the high board
fence built around non-union boarding
houses. A striker who solicited funds in
behalf Of these law-abiding citizens dis
appeared with a considerable collection.
In the anthracite region there are re-
ported but two murders during October.
one being that Of John Mullen. non-union
miner, who was beaten until unconscious
and then laid on a trolley track. where he
was decapitated by car.
There were nearly 100 distinct cases Of
assault by the strikers upon non-union
workingmen and their families, not includ-
ing various instances Of the same men
being hooted and stoned day by day and
night after night as they went to and re-
turned from their work. The throwing Of
stones at non-unon men by members of
unions. the bouncing upon them and beating
them with clubs are matters Of daily record.
A few of the more startling acts of torture
are here given:
AtWilkes Barre Stanley Mecally suspected
OF working during the strike, was stripped
held upon table and beaten with a rubber
hose until he was black and blue.
Charles Colson, an engineer at the Henry
Clay colliery, near Shamokin, was stoned.
then felled by brick, jumped upon and
kicked in the face. Later he was taken in
. serious condition to the hospital
John Walsko, a mine committeeman OF
Shamokin, in charge Of the distribution
Of relief funds. did not give some Of his
constituents as much as they thought they
ought TO have. They expressed their dis
satisfaction by striking him with club
cushing his Lead. then Jun ping on him,
Kicking out his teeth. ripping open his
face and leaving him for dead.
At Sansford, "a mob Of 800 men. headed
by a drum corps. marched To the home of
a Don-union man who had had both legs
crushed under a mine car and had died
from the effects. and hooted his family,
CRYING that He was a scab and deserved
TO die "
At New Philadelphia, mob intending to
assault two non-union miners caused severe
suffering to Mrs. Mut,l.oiwiecz, who had
lust been confined.
At Scranton n large ouart bottle filed
with black powder and dvnamite 10 which
was ai tach,d three fuses. i0nitad and, siz-
cling was thrown in the middle of the
night into tho room of Max Lazzar. who
with his brother had been Threatened with
death for working in the Dodge mine.
Al Grassy Island an internal machine
of giant powder and dynamite, strong
enough to blow I'D a good part of a town,
was found on the property OF Dominic
Basteca who had closed his store because
the strike had ruined his business and had
gone back TO work in the mines
Al Hazleton, Capello Embrich, suspected
of working during the strike. was assaulted
by a mob his lower lip torn of and his
head cut
IN tnTet TOH-uIllOu
were the victims of highway robbery. all
their earnings during the strike having
been taken from them at the points of re-
volyers and two of them were shamefully
beaten after they had been robbed.
Fourteen times were miners houses set
on fire, or dynamited, or bombarded by
stones, or riddled by bullets, nearly every
attack being made at night when women
and children were shocked, sometimes
rendered unconscious and at other times
directly and severely injured
Eleven attempts were made TO wreck
railroads by blowing no track and bridges
by dynamite by piacinp dynamite in the
coal boxes of locomotives and five times
were the assaults made directly upon I aims
by placing stones between The rails or
dynamite upon the track.
just for one example. on the sth OF Toe
tobcr, AT YaIesviIIe, an extra train Of live
stock on the Lehiph Valley ran int O charge
of dynamite Three men we're injured.
seven cars demolished and one hundred
cattle killed
Nine assaults were directed against the
property of mining companies' tipples
breakers and washeries being stoned and
dynamited and the bridge al Natalie COL
liery burned
There were twentv-ona crimes against
the State. including boyco,ts. puryeying
Of Ammunition for lawless nurnoses eleven
assaults on soldiers and sir cases of re-
eistinp or assa,Iltinp police